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

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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.