Ethnic Identities in Virtual Space

Svetlana Yu. Belorussova, Cand. Sci. (History), Senior Research Fellow, Head of the Laboratory of Museum Technologies at Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (MAE RAS). She completed her degree in the field of socio-cultural anthropology at the Ural Federal University. In 2017, she defended her thesis entitled “The Dynamics of the Nagaibak Ethnicity in the 18^th–21^st Centuries”. Her research interests span ethnic history of Turkic-speaking peoples of the Ural-Volga region, virtual ethnicity and cyberethnography, visual anthropology and ethnographic cinema, ethno-projects and ethno-leaders, travel anthropology, ethno-expertise. Among the most recent publications are: The Bessermian identity: Between reality and virtuality (2024, in Russ); Ups and downs: How the number of small indigenous peoples is changing (according to the results of the 2021 census) (2024, in Russ).