CALL FOR PAPERS: POST-SOVIET INTERNET With this we want to make you aware of a conference, The Etiology and Ecology of Post-Soviet Communication, which we have planned for the weekend of May 7-8(-9) 2010 at the Harriman Institute of Columbia, in New York City. The focus of the conference will be the development of the internet in the post-Soviet space, first and foremost Russia, though comparative work that goes beyond this geographical focus is also of interest. We anticipate panels on such questions as: emergence and evolution of social networks; patterns of interlinking; the phenomenon of social contagion in online communications; political clustering in the blogosphere and beyond; public versus private identities; doublethink, cynicism, coded language; the emergence of opinion leaders in the blogosphere; freedom of the press on the internet; forms and degrees of censorship, online activism/social movements on the internet; dissenters and political activism; democracy to autocracy in the Russian internet. We would welcome one-page abstracts sent to nmc.conference@gmail.com by February 1, 2010. The conference culminates a one-year project on New Modes of Communication at Columbia’s Harriman Institute. For more information on the project, please see http://nmc.wikischolars.columbia.edu/ Yours truly, Eugene Gorny, Florian Toepfl, Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Alan Timberlake, Guobin Yang -- Guobin Yang Associate Professor Asian/Middle Eastern Cultures and Sociology Barnard College, Columbia University 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 Ph: 212-854-9538; Fax: 212-854-8266 http://bc.barnard.columbia.edu/~gyang/