Presentation of Ethnicity in Digital Space
The article describes a phenomenon of presentation of ethnicity in digital space. The authors have analyzed the significant number of websites containing materials concerning various ethnic groups. Besides, they have considered ethnicity in social media. Upon the work, it was defined that the ethnic information is widely provided on several websites, from the official portals of mass media to weblogs, communities on social networks, on-line encyclopedias. As a rule, materials about ethnic groups or their certain representatives and culture are posted in the form of texts, photos and video records. Thus, the authors have identified a typology of websites that represent ethnicity over the Internet, as well as the main ways of expressing it.