Online now: Digital Icons 6, Autumn/Winter 2011

[Ellen Rutten]

*Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media
*
Out now: Issue 6. http://www.digitalicons.org/

Issue 6 of *Digital Icons** *explores the concept of transmediality as one
of a series of common thematic strands, discusses new digital phenomena and
launches a new creative and analytical project, *Digital Memoirs**. **The *main
objective of *Digital memoirs *is to facilitate a reflective discussion of
the experience of digital media in Russia, Eurasia and Central Europe. *Digital
Icons** *aims to construct a collaborative historical narrative that would
define use of digital media, including digital gadgets, digital forms of
communication and digital practices, in a post-communist, post-totalitarian
space. *Digital Icons** *hopes that such a narrative would enhance our
understanding of the role of new media in society, contribute to the theory
of digital media and avoid the presentism of new media studies by adopting
a critical historical perspective. The project straddles practices—creative
work and academic reflection; and research disciplines—web anthropology,
media studies, communication studies, (literary/art) history, folklore,
fandom studies, etc. *Digital Memoirs** *presents diverse voices of
cultural authority: the journal publishes submissions of artists,
researchers, media practitioners, journalists and people from other
professions and walks of life.

Table of contents
6.0 Editorial | Vlad Strukov
6.1 'This is your show!' Mass Creative Practices in Transmedial Projects |
Natalia Sokolova
6.2 Stars and Consumers in Contemporary Formats of Media Systems |
Alexandra Yatsyk
6.3 Jáchym Topol’s Fictional Statement on the Possibility of Immersive
Remembrance | Christine Goelz
6.4 www.snob.ru: A Social Network Site for the Elite | Tine Roesen
6.5 www.openspace.ru: The Faces and Spaces of a Russian Culture-News Portal
| Ellen Rutten
6.6 Russian Optimistic Internet TV Channel Dozhd (Interview with Mikhail
Zygar') | Arseny Khitrov
6.7 Digital Memoirs - Our New Project!
6.8 Reports and Commentaries
6.9 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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