Intelligencija 2.0. Il web e la tvorčeskaja intelligencija

Abstract

The debate on intelligentsia in contemporary Russia keeps on being fed by publications about its function and role. After a review of this debate, this article focuses on a specific aspect, i.e. the use of the web by contemporary intelligenty. Some case studies are here analysed with the aim of showing how, while in some situation the social media, and specifically Facebook, is used mainly as an extension or a ‘megaphone’ of someone’s intellectual activity, in others it is a peculiar space for creativity, other than functioning sometimes as one of the grounds where the eternal battle between the power and the intelligentsia is being fought.