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Title: The Digital Turn: User’s Practices and Cultural Transformations

The Digital Turn: User’s Practices and Cultural Transformations

by Pille Runnel (Volume editor) Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt (Volume editor) Piret Viires (Volume editor) Marin Laak (Volume editor)
©2013 Edited Collection 300 Pages
Media and Communication

Summary

By combining the analysis of the new forms and environments of the digital world with critical scholarship of the role of the users, this book argues that cultural field is facing a challenge of the digital turn. The digital turn hereby implies that changes in the use and application of digital technology bring on changes in practice and in the relationships between cultural institutions and audiences. We approach the changes in society from the structural (institutional) as well as from the agential (audiences, users, individuals) perspective. The authors represented in this book share the view that there is no need to fear the new media pushing aside traditional cultural forms, acknowledging at the same time that the scope of this cultural change is far from understood.

Details

Pages
300
Publication Year
2013
ISBN (PDF)
9783653023251
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631640357
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-02325-1
Language
English
Publication date
2013 (June)
Keywords
Digital technology New media Digital culture Digital heritage Participatory culture Memory institutions
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. 300 pp., 12 b/w fig., 9 tables, 8 graphs

Biographical notes

Pille Runnel (Volume editor) Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt (Volume editor) Piret Viires (Volume editor) Marin Laak (Volume editor)

Pille Runnel is a Research Director at the Estonian National Museum and a Researcher at the project «Developing Museum Communication in the 21st Century Information Environment». Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt is an Associate Professor at the University of Tartu, Institute of Journalism and Communication and a Researcher at the Estonian National Museum. Piret Viires is Professor of Estonian Literature at Tallinn University and a Senior Researcher at the Estonian Literary Museum. Marin Laak is a Senior Researcher at the Estonian Literary Museum and the leader of the research project «Sources of Cultural History and Contexts of Literature».

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