Resumen de (Russian) Writer-bloggers: : digital perfection and the aesthetics of imperfection
This article explores readings of (micro)blogging services as outlets for playful, �imperfect� language. Adopting a transcultural approach, it examines a blog category that has attracted scarce academic attention to date: the creative worker's blog. Through a qualitative analysis of metalinguistic statements by 14 Russian writer-bloggers, the author tests 2 interdependent hypotheses: (H1) through metalinguistic statements and pragmatic strategies, writers present language play and �imperfect� language as prototypical for new media; and (H2) If H1 is correct, the writer-blogger's preference for �imperfect� language caters into a broader cultural-philosophical anxiety � one of foregrounding imperfection as an aesthetic counterresponse to digital perfection.
