Making Sense of Zhoriben: The Story of a Romani Social Networking Site in Hungary

The MIT's International Journal of Learning and Media (IJLM) published an article by Eva Bognar and Judit Szakács, of CEU's Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, in its Winter 2010 issue, called "Making Sense of Zhoriben: The Story of a Romani Social Networking Site in Hungary". The issue, which is largely based on research undertaken in the course of a project called CivicWeb which the CMCS was a partner in, includes seven articles on subjects related to young people, the Internet and civic participation. The article by Eva and Judit presents a case study of Zhoriben, a Hungarian social networking site for the Roma ethnic minority. The article illustrates the potential role the Internet can play in civic society and for ethnic minorities in particular.