Abstrakt
The spread of the internet, the social media and the communication technologies play a significant role in migrant's life. The Web can be a platform for the construction of identity and community, "place where people share sense of belonging, forms of expression, meanings and emotions, languages, memories and rules of conduct" [Tsaliki 2003].
In this paper I would like to focus on Russian speaking online communities in context of migration to the Czech Republic, to discover its power relations, the nexus between virtual and physical communities and the ways that individual and collective identities are negotiated on- and offline. I'll draw on the findings from participant observation in online communities and on qualitative interviews with Russian speaking migrants in the Czech Republic.