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

Book Code: ABP4671

ISBN: 1-56750-467-1

ISBN-13: 978-1-56750-467-5

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Ablex Publishing

Publication: 5/3/2000

List Price: $45.00 (UK Sterling Price: £25.95)

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Endorsement From Sonia Rouve
Kings Collegel University of London: An insightful collection of research which foregrounds the importance of technology in this diverse, ever-transforming region.
Endorsement From Stanislav Sinor
Faculty of Technology
Charles University, Prague: What is the impact of technology on the cultures of post-communist nations? This book addresses this important question with a wide range of theoretical and critical perspective, An excellent volume.
Endorsement From Natalya Sharova and Vladimir Titov
Voronezh State University
Voronezh,Russia: This is precisely the book we have been waiting for. A clear articulation of the challenges and success we have experienced.

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 technology, underlying issues of economic struggle, legal 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: Intercultural 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 Intolerance 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 Practice 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 Grzinic
Building Community with Russia on the Internet: The 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 Burianova, and Laura Lengel
ZaMir Transitional Net: Computer-Mediated Communication and Resistance Music in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Amy Herron and Eric Bachman
The New Europe the New Millennium
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 Mannova,and Laura Lengel
The Future of Culture and Technology in the New Europe Anna Lubecka
Author and Subject Index


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