Simon Franklin is Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Writing, Society and Culture in Early Rus, c.950-1300 (Cambridge, 2002), and has edited, with Emma Widdis, National Identity in Russian Culture (Cambridge, 2004); and, with Katherine Bowers, Information and Empire: Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1854 (2017).
1. Concepts and contexts
2. Production in the graphosphere, I: primary writing
3. Production in the graphosphere, II: secondary writing
4. Scripts and languages of the graphosphere
5. Places and times of the graphosphere
6. Aspects of the ecology of the graphosphere
7. Aspects of authority and status in the graphosphere
8. (In)conclusion.
