What remains of Yugoslavia? From the geopolitical space of Yugoslavia to the virtual space of the Web Yugosphere

The article works from the double hypothesis that: (1) a Yugoslav socio-cultural space still exists in spite of the dissolution of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; (2) the communities \u2018occupying\u2019 this space can be considered, in some measure, \u2018diasporic\u2019, if the \u2018Yugoslav diaspora\u2019 is defined by not only the geographic displacement of people but also by the loosening of the connections between the members of an ex-nation who still consider themselves a national community. The \u2018space\u2019 mapped in the essay is the so-called \u2018virtual space\u2019 of the Web, including all websites that reconnect to the \u2018cultural languages\u2019 of the \u2018past-country\u2019. The author observes how these \u2018different Yugoslavias\u2019 are \u2018staged\u2019 and linked together on the Web, and verifies how some far-flung communities rally around the \u2018virtual re-foundation\u2019 and \u2018virtual representations\u2019 of Yugoslavia. The corpus is constituted mainly of \u2018yugonostalgic\u2019 websites that are subjected to a content analysis. The 191 websites of the corpus and the hyper-textual map of their edges are analysed using semantic features together with other tools of categorization