Follow Friday: @KevinRothrock, explaining the RuNet

Follow Friday , Interviews , Journalism , Russia May 30, 2014 No Comments

In a media landscape that comprises a multitude of voices, following events across countries can be bewildering. It is often difficult to separate the voices that know what they’re talking about from those that merely like the sound of themselves. It can be harder still to know what the voices of locals on the ground sound like—the voices of those who actually live in the places that grace our international pages and television screens—when the voices in question speak and think in languages other than own.

For the past two years, Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock) has co-edited RuNet Echo, a project of Global Voices Online that seeks to expand English speakers’ understanding of one of the most fascinating and under-reported conversations of local voices in the world: the one that is currently taking place on the Russian internet, or RuNet, as it is more commonly known.

“I don’t think English-language mainstream media coverage is necessary to understand Russia at all,” Rothrock told Crikey. “Go straight to the source. You’ll find analysis and commentary that’s more unfiltered—and often quite zany—but you’ll come away with an improved sense of things and a more nuanced appreciation of current events’ chaos.”

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Matthew Clayfield

Matthew Clayfield is a journalist, critic and screenwriter.

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