Culture and Technology in the New Europe

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Culture and Technology in the New Europe Civic Discourse in Transformation in Post-Communist Nations

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Laura Lengel

ISBN: 1-56750-466-3

ISBN-13: 978-1-56750-466-8

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Praeger Publishers

Publication: 4/13/2000

List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £91.95)

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Series Title: Civic Discourse for the Third Millennium

Description: Culture and Technology in the New Europe presents the insights of an international group of academic researchers and media practitioners who examine the impact of technology on East Central Europe, South-Eastern Europe, the Newly Independent States and the Russian Federation. Drawing from the expertise of authors from and working in the region, the book addresses concerns that the New Europe faces at the eve of the Third Millennium and a decade after the fall of communist rule. Such concerns include access to information and communication technology and the culturally-specific discourses articulated through media and technology.

While the book focuses on information and communication reforms, and the development of a participatory democracy are examined. The book is distinguished by diverse studies ranging from the problems of Cyber Hate from and about the New Europe, to online activism in war-torn Kosovo, Bosnia, Croatia and Yugoslavia, to how digital media art articulates new cultural and creative freedoms once silenced by the Soviet regime. Finally, the book looks to the future of media, technology and communication in the New Europe, particularly the gaps between post-socialist nations and those more technologically advantaged, and how these gaps can be narrowed or eradicated in the Third Millennium.

Table of Contents:

Foreward Alfred Hermida
Preface
Introduction: Culture and Technology in the New Europe Laura Lengel
Theoretical Foundations
Ferment and Transition in the New Europe: Imperatives for a Europe in Transition Priya Kapoor
Contemporary Economic, Sociocultural, and Technological Contexts in the New Europe Anna Lubecka
Intellectuals' Civic Discourse in the New Europe: Konrad and Cultural Responsibilities of a Civil Society Noemi Marin
The Internet and the Public Sphere; What Kind Of Space is Cyberspace? Jon Mided
Alone in the Crowd: The Politics of Cybernetic Isolation John Horvath
Concerns and Challenges in the New Europe
Mediated Concerns: The New Europe in Hypertext Dina Iordanova
Organized Innocence and War in the New Europe on Electronic Solitude and Independent Media Geert Lovink
CyberHate: The Discourse of Intolerence in the New Europe Elliot Glassman
Gender and Technology in the New Europe Laura Lengel
Online Orality: The Internet, Folklore and Culture in Russia Bruce McClelland
Contexts and Pracitce in the New Europe
Video as Civic Discourse in the Former Yugoslavia: Strategies of Visualization and the Aesthetics of Video in the New Europe Marina Grzincic
Building Community with Russia on the Internet: Friends and Partners Initiative Margot Emery and Benjamin Bates
The Evolution of Cybernetic Civic Discourse in Post Communist Poland John Parrish-Sprowl and Eric Paul Engel
Kultura/Technologie Mladych: Youth Culture and Technology in the Czech Republic Zdenka Telnarova, Eva Burianove, and Laura Lengal
ZaMir Transitional Net: Computer-Mediated Communication and Resistance Music in Bosnia-Herzgovina, Croatia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Amy Herron and Eric Bachman
The New Europe the New Millinnium
Socialist Media in the Post-Soviet Era Now and in the Future: Reflections on the Asian Experience Drew O. McDaniel
Georgia's Media: Options and Oppurtunities for the Third Millennium Nicholas Johnson
Collaboration Through Technology Now and in the Future: Linking the New Europe with the World Christina Preston, Bozena Mannove and Laura Lengel
The Future of Culture and Technology in the New Europe Anna Lubeck
Author and Subject Index

About the Author: LAURA LENGEL is Associate Professor in communications at Richmond American International University in London. Her publications, which have appeared in Journal of Communication Inquiry and Convergence, The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, address technology, gender studies, and critical ethnographic field research.


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