Ethnocultural Communities in the Global Information Environment: Russian Context

Abstract

The development of digital and information technologies for social communication has transformed the traditional ways of reproducing ethnic solidarity. This produced an unprecedented moЬilization effect of ethnic self-organization. The article solves two proЬlems: firstly, it offers а classification of ethnic networks based on the allocation of goals and moЬilization guidelines, and secondly, it fixes new ways of constructing them using innovative communication tools. The conclusion is made about the strengthening of the autonomy of ethnic structures of self-organization in the context of the transformation of the global information environment.