Digital Ethnography of Everyday Online Communication Between Neighbors in a Big City (Using the Example of an Apartment Building in Moscow)

Student: Kirill Britvin

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Faculty: Faculty of Urban and Regional Development

Educational Programme: Urban Planning (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2024

The study examines the impact of online communication formats on neighborhood relationships in the context of declining offline forms of communication. The main tasks are the study of digital ethnography in neighborhood chats using the example of an apartment building in Moscow, and the interpretation of the data obtained through the prism of network theory, which permeates the system of neighborhood relationships. Within the framework of the project, the chats of an apartment building were investigated, as well as interviews with residents were conducted, which allowed us to confirm the hypotheses posed. Keywords: neighbors, social cohesion, digital platform; Internet communication.

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