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[ecrea] Now online! Issue 6 of 'Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media'

Tue Jan 31 09:24:24 GMT 2012



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/*Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New
Media */*Issue 6.* http://www.digitalicons.org/ <http://www.digitalicons.org/>

Issue 6 of /Digital Icons /explores the concept of transmediality as one of a series of common thematic strands, discusses new digital phenomena and launches a new creative and analytical project, /Digital Memoirs. //The /main objective of /Digital memoirs /is to facilitate a reflective discussion of the experience of digital media in Russia, Eurasia and Central Europe./Digital Icons /aims to construct a collaborative historical narrative that would define use of digital media, including digital gadgets, digital forms of communication and digital practices, in a post-communist, post-totalitarian space. /Digital Icons /hopes that such a narrative would enhance our understanding of the role of new media in society, contribute to the theory of digital media and avoid the presentism of new media studies by adopting a critical historical perspective. The project straddles practices---creative work and academic reflection; and research disciplines---web anthropology, media studies, communication studies, (literary/art) history, folklore, fandom studies, etc. /Digital Memoirs /presents diverse voices of cultural authority: the journal publishes submissions of artists, researchers, media practitioners, journalists and people from other professions and walks of life.

Table of contents
6.0 Editorial | Vlad Strukov
6.1 'This is your show!' Mass Creative Practices in Transmedial Projects | Natalia Sokolova 6.2 Stars and Consumers in Contemporary Formats of Media Systems | Alexandra Yatsyk 6.3 Jáchym Topol's Fictional Statement on the Possibility of Immersive Remembrance | Christine Goelz 6.4 www.snob.ru <http://www.snob.ru/>: A Social Network Site for the Elite | Tine Roesen 6.5 www.openspace.ru <http://www.openspace.ru/>: The Faces and Spaces of a Russian Culture-News Portal | Ellen Rutten 6.6 Russian Optimistic Internet TV Channel Dozhd (Interview with Mikhail Zygar') | Arseny Khitrov
6.7 Digital Memoirs - Our New Project!
6.8 Reports and Commentaries
6.9 Book Reviews

The full issue is available online on http://www.digitalicons.org/ <http://www.digitalicons.org/>.

For more information, please visit the website or write to the
editors: (editor /at/ digitalicons.org) <http://uk.mc260.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=(editor /at/ digitalicons.org)>

Digital Icons Editorial Team:
Vlad Strukov (London)
Natalia Sokolova (Moscow)
Henrike Schmidt (Berlin)
Ellen Rutten (Amsterdam)
Sudha Rajagopalan (Utrecht)

Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media (Digital Icons) is an online publication that appears twice per year. The journal is a multi-media platform that explores new media as a variety of information flows, varied communication systems, and networked communities. Contributions to Digital Icons cover a broad range of topics related to the impact of digital and electronic technologies on politics, economics, society, culture, and the arts in Russia, Eurasia, and Central Europe. Digital Icons publishes articles from scholars from a variety of academic backgrounds, as well as artists' contributions, interviews, comments, reviews of books, digital films, animation, and computer games, and relevant cultural and academic events, as well as any other forms of discussion of new media in the region.
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