Transforming Culture in the Digital Age
Written by Worklab Wednesday, 28 April 2010 08:59
Estonian National Museum is happy to announce, that from 14.-16. April took place in Tartu international conference „Transforming Culture in the Digital Age“. The initial call of the conference invited professionals of different heritage institutions – museums, libraries and archives, working artists, educators and academicians researching the subjects of cultural transformation from across the disciplines.An
eBook: Transforming Culture in the Digital Age has been produced on the basis of the conference presentations. The book is a collection of 56 articles, divided to four large sections – Changing users, Transforming heritage, Digital literature and Digital art. Each of these sections represents a larger theme from the conference where practitioners and academics met and discussed the consequences of digitalisation.
Contents:
Introduction
Changing user:
Cultural heritage and creative user
Introduction
Changing user:
- A short history of cultural participation, Nico Carpentier
- Accessible Digital Culture for Disabled People, Marcus Weisen
- Understanding Visitors’ Experiences with Multimedia Guides in Cultural Spaces, Kamal Othman, Helen Petrie & Christopher Power
- Can you be friends with an art museum? Rethinking the art museum through Facebook, Lea Schick & Katrine Damkjær
- On Scientific Mentality in Cultural Memory, Raffaele Mascella & Paolo Lattanzio
- Paranoid, not an Android: Dystopic and Utopic Expressions in Playful Interaction with Technology and everyday surroundings, Maaike de Jong
- Theorizing Web 2.0: including local to become universal, Selva Ersoz Karakulakoglu
- How Web 3.0 combines User-Generated and Machine-Generated Content, Stijn Bannier & Chris Vleugels
- Artificial Culture as a Metaphor and Tool, Kurmo Konsa
- Playful Public Connectivity, Anne Kaun
- Habermasian Online Debate of a Rational Critical Nature: Transforming Political Culture. A case study of the “For Honesty in Politics!” message group Latvia, 2007, Ingus Bērziņš
- Transformation of Cultural Preferences in Estonia, Maarja Lõhmus & Anu Masso
- Taste 2.0. Social Network Site as Cultural Practice, Antonio Di Stefano
- Online Communication A New Battlefield for Forming Elite Culture in China, Nanyi Bi
- Internet, blogs and Social Networks for Independent and Personal Learningof Information Theory and Other Subjects in Journalism, Advertising and Media, Graciela Padilla & Eva Aladro
- The Artist and Digital Self-presentation: a Reshuffle of Authority?, Joke Beyl
- Communicative Image Construction in Online Social Networks. New Identity Opportunities in the Digital Age, Bernadette Kneidinger
- Digital Identity: The Private and Public Paradox, Stacey M. Koosel
- Mystory in Myspace Rhetoric of Memory in New Median, Petra Aczél
- Life Publishing on the internet – a playful field of life-telling, Sari Östman
Cultural heritage and creative user
- Archives and Its Users at a Crossroads of On-line Access, Priit Pirsko
- Audiovisual Collections in a Digital Culture: Reflections on Providers and Users of Digital Audiovisual Heritage in Flanders, Lien Mostmans & Eva Van Passel
- Transforming cultural participation at the Estonian National Museum, Pille Runnel & Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt
- Trans/forming Museum Narratives: The Accommodation of „Photography 2.0“ in Contemporary Exhibitions, Areti Galani & Alexandra Moschovi
- Digitization – Accessibility – Long-term digital preservation. Creation and maintaining virtuaalmuuseum.ee, Andres Uueni
- Performativity, Interaction and Cultural Competence in Technologicallymediated interactive art exhibitions, Vuokko Harma
- “What’s on your mind?”, Andrea Salinas
- What Do We Know about On-line Museums? A Study about Current Situation of Virtual Art Museums, Anna Lorente i Gall & Ioannis Kanellos
- Re-creating ‘natural’ heritage: Landscape perception and outdoor tourism in the web 2.0, David Casado-Neira
- Cultural Heritage and Literary Memory: Constructing the Estonian Cultural Historical Web, Marin Laak
- Gender and migration issues in relation to intercultural identities: A digital archival inquiry for European history, Triantafillia Kourtoumi
- Archival Education: Data Trails And The Culture Of Learning, Beverly Geesin & Helen Gilroy
- Estonian language university digital textbook collection, Liisi Lembinen
- Digital Memory and Common Sense, Janne Andresoo & Mihkel Volt
- For those looking for information and experiences: The National Digital Library of Finland, Tapani Sainio & Mikael Vakkari
- Large-scale aggregation of metadata from distributed digital libraries in Poland, Adam Dudczak, Agnieszka Lewandowska & Marcin Werla
- Changing users of the digital library, Krista Lepik
- Digital Preservation of Manuscripts in Rampur Raza Library in India: A Case Study, Leili Seifi
- Between technology and Teleology: Can the Digital Age Embrace the Analog Experience of Culture?, Farouk Y. Seif
- The shape of the paper book to come, Geoffrey Brusatto
- From the Gutenberg Galaxy to the Internet Galaxy. Digital Textuality and the Change of Cultural Landscape, Raine Koskimaa
- The “Open” Ideology of Digital Culture, Robert Wilkie
- Digital Poetry and/in the Poetics of the Automatic, Juri Joensuu
- Re: appearing and Disappearing Classics. Case Study on Poetics of Two Digital Rewritings by a Finnish Poet Marko Niemi, Kristian Blomberg
- Cybertextuality meets transtextuality, Markku Eskelinen
- Metafictionality and deterritorilization of the literary in the hypertexts, Anna Wendorff
- The Public Sphere of Poetry and the Art of Publishing, Risto Niemi-Pynttäri
- Solitude in Cyberspace, Piret Viires & Virve Sarapik
- Reprogramming Systems Aesthetics: A Strategic Historiography, Edward A. Shanken
- Stepping towards the immaterial: Digital technology revolutionizing art, Christina Grammatikopoulou
- Creativity in Surveillance Environment: Jill Magid and the Integrated Circuit, Amy Christmas
- Audience Interaction in the Cinema: An Evolving Experience, Chris Hales
- Delay and non-materiality in telecommunication art, Raivo Kelomees
- Robot: Ritual Oracle and Fetish, Thomas Riccio
- Digital art and children’s formal and informal practices: Exploring curiosities and challenging assumptions, Steven Naylor
- Locative Media and Augmented Reality: Bridges and Borders between Real and Virtual Spaces, Marisa Luisa Gómez Martínez
Published by Estonian National Museum, Estonian Literary Museum, University of Tartu; ISBN 978-9949-417-59-9; Editors: Agnes Aljas, Raivo Kelomees, Marin Laak, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Tiina Randviir, Pille Runnel, Maarja Savan, Jaak Tomberg, Piret Viires.( How to use: Delete everything marked with ( ). Write an intro about 5 lines long. Then there is a "read more" line followed by a horizontial ruler. The 3 sample images is to be replaced by other images with same height (in the example the height is 100px). If there's no images for the article the images and horizontial rulers are to be deleted. Important! Be carefull to keep the "read more" line or add a new if deleted. The rest of the article text will follow after the images. )