The Digital Turn: User’s Practices and Cultural Transformations

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».

Contents: Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt/Pille Runnel/Marin Laak/Piret Viires: The Challenge of the Digital Turn - Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt/Pille Runnel/Agnes Aljas: Orienting the Heritage Institution towards Participatory Users in the Internet - Marju Lauristin: New Media and Changes in the Forms of Cultural Transmission: The Estonian Experience - Tobias Olsson/Anders Svensson: Reaching and Including Digital Visitors: Swedish Museums and Social Demand - Krista Lepik: Changing users of Memory Institutions - Lien Mostmans/Eva Van Passel: Audiovisual Collections in a Digital Culture: Reflections on Providers and Users of Digital Audiovisual Heritage in Flanders - Marin Laak: Heritage, User and the Digital Environment: Rewriting the Narrative of the Literary Past - Katrine Damkjær/Lea Schick: Can You Be Friends with an Art Museum? Rethinking the Art Museum with Facebook - Stijn Bannier/Chris Vleugels: Recommended Friends, Artists, Events and Books: The Opportunities and Risks of Web 3.0 - Joke Beyl: Blogging Writers: (De)Mystification of Authority? - Sari Östman: Life-Publishing on the Internet - a Playful Field of Life-Narrating - Stacey M. Koosel: Exploring Digital Identity: Beyond the Private Public Paradox - David Casado-Neira: From Landscape to Multi-layer Landscape: Landscape as a Tourism Resource on Web 2.0 - Marcus Weisen: Accessible Digital Culture for Disabled People - Nico Carpentier: A Short History of Participation in the Cultural Realm - Anne Kaun: Playful Public Connectivity and Heritage Institutions - Piret Viires/Virve Sarapik: Solitude in Cyberspace - Janne Andresoo/Mihkel Volt: Digital Memory, Risks and Common Sense: Dilemmas in the Context of National Libraries - Markku Eskelinen: Cybertextuality Meets Transtextuality - Raine Koskimaa: From the Gutenberg Galaxy to the Internet Galaxy. Digital Textuality and the Change of the Cultural Landscape - Farouk Y. Seif: Between Technology and Teleology: Can the Digital Age Embrace the Analogue Experience of Culture?