Transforming Culture in the Digital Age
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.
Introduction
Changing user:
- A short history of cultural participation, Nico Carpentier
Access on multimedia
- 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
Artificial Culture
- 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
Political culture
- 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
Consumer and elite
- 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
Identity and individual in social networks
- 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
Personal memory: virtual self
- 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 :
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
Visuality
- 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 memory: knowledge environments
- 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
Libraries
- 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
Is digital enhancing cultural experience?
- 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
Digital literature
- 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
Digital art
- 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