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• Title:
  Moscow and St. Petersburg Compete: Negotiating City Identity on Ru.Net
• Creator:
  Yelenevskaya, Maria
• Contributor:
  Krawczyk-Wasilewska, Violetta;
  Meder, Theo;
  Ross, Andy;
  Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa;
  Yelenevskaya, Maria (Ph.D.) is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Humanities and Arts at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, where she heads the Computer-Assisted Language Learning Laboratory. She teaches EAP courses, develops digitised teaching modules for ESP courses and has co-authored five course books for students of Technical English. Her research and publications deal primarily with the use of language in multilingual and multicultural settings and immigration studies. She has authored and co-authored over 50 articles in journals and chapters in books. In collaboration with Larisa Fialkova she wrote the book Ex-Soviets in Israel: From Personal Narratives to a Group Portrait (Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2007) and the extended Russian-language version The Russian Street in the Jewish State: Investigation into the Folklore of Immigrants of the 1990s to Israel (Moscow, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2005). Her professional activities include organisation of conference panels and reviewing for various journals. She is a member of several research associations and networks and is a board member of the Israel Association for the Study of Language and Society. Web: http://humanities.technion.ac.il/masha_yelenevskaya.htm
• Description:
  Studies conducted by environmental psychologists, sociologists and cultural geographers show that affiliation of self with place forms a salient part of identity, and even personalities inclined to nomadic life styles identify themselves in terms of location. In people’s relations with space, cities have a special role, albeit one that changes over time. In the second half of the 20th century, erasing of the borders between urban and rural areas, the growth of migration, and globalisation marked by convergence of consumer tastes and patterns have changed the face of the city. The purpose of this essay is to analyse how the identities of the two biggest Russian cities, Moscow and St. Petersburg, and their residents are negotiated and reshaped in the discourse of Internet users and why the juxtaposition of the two cities has been a pervasive theme in the last decade.;
  Udostępnienie publikacji Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego finansowane w ramach projektu „Doskonałość naukowa kluczem do doskonałości kształcenia”. Projekt realizowany jest ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego w ramach Programu Operacyjnego Wiedza Edukacja Rozwój; nr umowy: POWER.03.05.00-00-Z092/17-00.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Międzynarodowe;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2021.06.09;
  2012
• Type:
  Book chapter
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf;
  image/jpeg
• Publisher:
  Lodz University Press
• Relation:
  Krawczyk-Wasilewska V., Meder T., Ross A. (eds.), Shaping virtual lives. Online identities, representations, and conducts, Lodz University Press, Lodz 2012;
• Subject:
  identity;
  affiliation;
  emotional bonds;
  website;
  Moscow;
  St.Petersburg
• Identifier:
  Yelenevskaya M., Moscow and St. Petersburg Compete: Negotiating City Identity on Ru.Net, [in:] Shaping virtual lives. Online identities, representations, and conducts, Krawczyk-Wasilewska V., Meder T., Ross A. (eds.), Lodz University Press, Lodz 2012, pp. 101-127, DOI: 10.18778/7525-671-0.07;
  978-83-7525-671-0;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/36129 ;
  10.18778/7525-671-0.07
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
  text