Four mini-mini-reviews of recent and upcoming publications which scrutinize the RuNet from various disciplinary angles.Eugene Gorny, A Creative History of the Russian Internet: Studies in Internet Creativity (VDM Verlag 2009). Known for a slightly essentialist approach - Gorny preserves traditional Russia <> West dichotomies and discerns inherently Russian characteristics in the Russian-speaking segment of the web - Gornyi nevertheless provides an analysis which is funded on thorough sociological studies. Originally written as a dissertation, this "classic" of RuNet literature has now been reworked into a book.Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings, Natalya Rulyova, eds., The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals (Routledge 2009). A collection whose contributions touch upon various media. Spot the last section, from our own TRCJ Vlad Strukov and Robert Saunders, for analyses of Russian web media policies and online identity in post-Soviet space.Ingunn Lunde and Martin Paulsen, eds., Norm Negotiation in Russian Language and Literature (Slavica Bergensia 2009). You wouldn't tell from the title, but this collection, which will be launched in a month or so, contains several articles related to Russian online language culture. Vera Zvereva triggers padonki speech, Michael Gorham language-related websites, Gasan Guseinov linguistic culture in the Russian blogosphere, and yours truly zooms in on literary blogs.  More on this publication after the book launch.For a peep into a very different sphere - that of online art and creativity - surf to Olga Goriunova's article "Old Contexts for New: Media Cultures (in Russia" in Third Text (23/3, 2009). Analyzing the cultural history of practising technology in Russia and the Soviet Union, Goriunova travels from online media way back into the early twentieth century.Enjoy,ER