Weaving Lives: (Auto-)Biographical Practices on the Literary Runet

这篇博士论文聚焦于（自动）传记写作的一个特定方面：互联网俄语区（Runet）作者的（自我）塑造。在这样做的过程中，一个愿望得到了解决，因为（自动）传记理论仍然将万维网视为（自动）传记超文本的一个未实现的承诺，同时未能认识到在线出现的新的创造性策略。所谓的带有社交网络和博客平台的Web 2.0主要是一种（自我）塑造的方式，它建立在许多（自动）传记策略之上。作者的形象取自俄罗斯文学传统，适应互联网的传播和媒介现实，并在媒介实验中重新创造。再加上对对话沟通的含蓄重估，这些过程导致赋予听众权力。本文通过对网络（自动）传记体实践的分析，试图找出web2.0的创作机制，并从文学理论的角度对其进行回顾。在数字人文的精神，混合定性和定量的方法被用于研究29位俄罗斯作家的语料库。对作者的关注不仅在主题上构成了论文的框架，而且还允许访问（自我）塑造的例子，这些例子是多样化的，自我反思的和创新的。同时，还可以考察新的、实验性的（自动的）传记实践对俄罗斯文学的影响。

This PhD thesis zooms in on a specific aspect of (auto-)biographical writing: the (self-)fashioning of authors in the Russian-language section of the Internet (Runet). In doing so, a desideratum is addressed, because (auto-)biography theory still sees the World Wide Web as an unfulfilled promise of an (auto-)biographical hypertext and at the same time fails to recognize the new creative strategies emerging online. The so-called Web 2.0 with its social networks and blog platforms is primarily a means of (self-)fashioning, which is built upon numerous (auto-)biographical strategies. Images of the author are taken from Russian literary tradition, adapted to the communicative and medial reality of the Internet and created anew in medial experiments. Together with an implicit revaluation of dialogical communication these processes lead to an empowerment of the audience. The thesis analyses (auto-)biographical practices online, strives to identify the creative mechanisms of Web 2.0 and reviews them from the perspective of literary theory. In the spirit of Digital Humanities a mixture of qualitative and quantitative methods is used to study a corpus of 29 Russian authors. The focus on writers not only frames the thesis thematically, but also allows to access examples of (self-)fashioning which are diverse, self-reflexive and innovative. At the same time, the influence of new, experimental (auto-)biographical practices on Russian literature can be investigated.