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：互联网俄语部分（Runet）作者的（自我）塑造。在这样做的时候，一个迫切需要解决的问题，因为（自动）传记理论仍然认为万维网是一个未实现的承诺（自动）传记超文本，并在同一时间未能认识到新的创造性战略出现在网上。所谓的Web 2.0及其社交网络和博客平台主要是一种（自我）塑造的手段，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，适应了互联网的传播和媒体现实，并在媒体实验中重新创造。这些过程与对对话交流的隐性重新评价一起，导致了对受众的赋权。本文通过对网络传记创作实践的分析，试图揭示Web2.0的创作机制，并从文学理论的角度对其进行评述。在数字人文的精神，定性和定量的方法的混合物被用来研究29个俄罗斯作家的语料库。对作家的关注不仅是论文的主题框架，而且还允许访问（自我）塑造的例子是多样的，自我反思和创新。与此同时，可以研究新的实验性（自动）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.