Online now // Digital Icons 5: Transmedial Practices in Post-Communist Spaces

[Ellen Rutten]

*Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media
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Issue 5. Transmedial Practices in Post-Communist Spaces

http://www.digitalicons.org/

This issue of *Digital Icons* explores how, in post-Communist space,
transmedial practices operate and what political, social and cultural
implications they have. The issue aims to investigate the issue of
transmediality from the point of view of area studies *and* to place it at
the intersection of a few other academic disciplines: sociology of digital
culture, digital literary studies, political economy of new media, screen
studies, fandom studies, and so forth. The issue presents a number of case
studies, each of which, on the one hand, recognizes the media specificity of
a phenomenon in question and, on the other, focuses on cross-media
applications and practices. It seeks to expand theories of convergence,
remediation, non-linear production and hypertextual creativity by concerning
itself with the impact of transmedial practices on authorship, labour,
branding and citizenship in multi-platform environments, synergizing with
complex cross-promotional product marketing initiatives and the construction
of citizen-spectators. The issue interrogates cultural memory as a
transmedial locus by considering different media flows and modes of
representation.



Table of contents


5.0 Editorial (Vlad Strukov)
5.1 New Media, Resistance and Democratic Revolution in Serbia 1995-2000
(James Aulich)
5.2 Virtual Rusophonia: Language Policy as ‘Soft Power’ in the New Media Age
(Michael Gorham)
5.3 Time and Space Games on Akunin’s Virtual Pages (Elisa Coati)
5.4 LitRes: A Critical Review of Russia’s e-Book Seller No. 1 (Henrike
Schmidt)
5.5 Kino-teatr.ru: Contemporary Cinephiles at Work (Sudha Rajagopalan)
5.6 Convergence of Internet News Media and Social Networks on RuNet (Egor
Panchenko)
5.7 Levinton Ringtone (Roman Leibov)
5.8 Reports and Commentaries
5.9 Book Reviews

The full issue is available online on http://www.digitalicons.org/.

For more information, please visit the website or write to the
editors: editor at digitalicons.org<http://uk.mc260.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=editor@digitalicons.org>

Digital Icons Editorial Team:
Vlad Strukov (London)
Natalia Sokolova (Moscow)
Henrike Schmidt (Berlin)
Ellen Rutten (Amsterdam)
Sudha Rajagopalan (Utrecht)

Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media
(Digital Icons) is an online publication that appears twice per year. The
journal is a multi-media platform that explores new media as a variety of
information flows, varied communication systems, and networked communities.
Contributions to Digital Icons cover a broad range of topics related to the
impact of digital and electronic technologies on politics, economics,
society, culture, and the arts in Russia, Eurasia, and Central Europe.
Digital Icons publishes articles from scholars from a variety of academic
backgrounds, as well as artists' contributions, interviews, comments,
reviews of books, digital films, animation, and computer games, and relevant
cultural and academic events, as well as any other forms of discussion of
new media in the region.

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