{"id":230,"date":"2014-06-27T06:23:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T10:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/?p=230"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:03:25","slug":"after-newspeak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/2014\/06\/27\/after-newspeak\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book: After Newspeak"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New Book: After Newspeak<\/h1>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><a title=\"Digital Russia -- Routledge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.routledge.com\/books\/details\/9780415707046\/\"><br>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/files\/Gorham_AfterNewspeak_Cover_small.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-227\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/files\/Gorham_AfterNewspeak_Cover_small.jpeg\" alt=\"Gorham_AfterNewspeak_Cover_small\" width=\"288\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/files\/Gorham_AfterNewspeak_Cover_small.jpeg 288w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/files\/Gorham_AfterNewspeak_Cover_small-199x300.jpeg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><strong><em>After Newspeak: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Language Culture and Politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>By Michael S. Gorham<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Publisher: <a title=\"Cornell U. P. \" href=\"http:\/\/www.cornellpress.cornell.edu\/book\/?GCOI=80140100197990\" target=\"_blank\">Cornell University Press<\/a>\u00a0(2014)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><a title=\"Cornell U. P. discount order form\" href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/content-removed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Download discount order form<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Also available through <a title=\"Digital Russia -- Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/After-Newspeak-Language-Politics-Gorbachev-ebook\/dp\/B00JMNL1FY\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\">In\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"color: #333333\">After Newspeak<\/em><span style=\"color: #333333\">, Michael S. Gorham presents a cultural history of the politics of Russian language from Gorbachev and glasnost to Putin and the emergence of new generations of Web technologies. Gorham begins from the premise that periods of rapid and radical change both shape and are shaped by language. He documents the role and fate of the Russian language in the collapse of the USSR and the decades of reform and national reconstruction that have followed. Gorham demonstrates the inextricable linkage of language and politics in everything from dictionaries of profanity to the flood of publications on linguistic self-help, the speech patterns of the country\u2019s leaders, the blogs of its bureaucrats, and the official programs promoting the use of Russian in the so-called &#8220;near abroad.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\">Gorham explains why glasnost figured as such a critical rhetorical battleground in the political strife that led to the Soviet Union\u2019s collapse and shows why Russians came to deride the newfound freedom of speech of the 1990s as little more than the right to swear in public. He assesses the impact of Medvedev\u2019s role as Blogger-in-Chief and the role Putin\u2019s vulgar speech practices played in the restoration of national pride. And he investigates whether Internet communication and new media technologies have helped to consolidate a more vibrant democracy and civil society or if they serve as an additional resource for the political technologies manipulated by the Kremlin.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"off","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,7,6],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rt-blog","tag-books","tag-language","tag-new-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}