Social aspect of internet literature

This article raises the question of the influence of the Internet environment on network literature. The problem of the influence of literary Internet communities on the author is considered. I made an attempt to justify the inclusion of the institutional theory of the art and the theory of social fields of Pierre Bourdieu in the methodological apparatus of studying the electronic literature. The inclusion is possible because of the structural similarity of the literary Internet communities and literary salons of the Pushkin era.