The Digital Turn: Users Practices and Cultural Transformations (Paperback)

Pille Runnel

ISBN 10: 3631640358 / ISBN 13: 9783631640357

Published by Peter Lang AG, Bern, 2013

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Paperback. By combining the analysis of the new forms and environments of the digital world with critical scholarship of the role of the users, this book argues that cultural field is facing a challenge of the digital turn. The digital turn hereby implies that changes in the use and application of digital technology bring on changes in practice and in the relationships between cultural institutions and audiences. We approach the changes in society from the structural (institutional) as well as from the agential (audiences, users, individuals) perspective. The authors represented in this book share the view that there is no need to fear the new media pushing aside traditional cultural forms, acknowledging at the same time that the scope of this cultural change is far from understood. By combining the analysis of the new forms and environments of the digital world with critical scholarship of the role of the users, this book argues that cultural field is facing a challenge of the digital turn. The authors represented in this book share the view that there is no need to fear the new media pushing aside traditional cultural forms. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Digital Turn: Users Practices and Cultural Transformations (Paperback)
• Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Bern
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631640358
• ISBN 13: 9783631640357
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

By combining the analysis of the new forms and environments of the digital world with critical scholarship of the role of the users, this book argues that cultural field is facing a challenge of the digital turn. The digital turn hereby implies that changes in the use and application of digital technology bring on changes in practice and in the relationships between cultural institutions and audiences. We approach the changes in society from the structural (institutional) as well as from the agential (audiences, users, individuals) perspective. The authors represented in this book share the view that there is no need to fear the new media pushing aside traditional cultural forms, acknowledging at the same time that the scope of this cultural change is far from understood.

About the Author

Pille Runnel is a Research Director at the Estonian National Museum and a Researcher at the project «Developing Museum Communication in the 21st Century Information Environment».
Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt is an Associate Professor at the University of Tartu, Institute of Journalism and Communication and a Researcher at the Estonian National Museum.
Piret Viires is Professor of Estonian Literature at Tallinn University and a Senior Researcher at the Estonian Literary Museum.
Marin Laak is a Senior Researcher at the Estonian Literary Museum and the leader of the research project «Sources of Cultural History and Contexts of Literature».