Transforming Culture in the Digital Age International Conference in Tartu 14-16 April 2010

A short history of cultural participation by Nico Carpentier Accessible Digital Culture for Disabled People by Marcus Weisen Understanding Visitors’ Experiences with Multimedia Guides in Cultural Spaces by Kamal Othman, Helen Petrie & Christopher Power Can you be friends with an art museum? Rethinking the art museum through Facebook by Lea Schick & Katrine Damkjær On Scientific Mentality in Cultural Memory by Raffaele Mascella & Paolo Lattanzio Paranoid, not an Android: Dystopic and Utopic Expressions in Playful Interaction with Technology and everyday surroundings by Maaike de Jong Theorizing Web 2.0: including local to become universal by Selva Ersoz Karakulakoglu How Web 3.0 combines User-Generated and Machine-Generated Content by Stijn Bannier & Chris Vleugels Artificial Culture as a Metaphor and Tool by Kurmo Konsa Playful Public Connectivity by Anne Kaun Habermasian Online Debate of a Rational Critical Nature: Transforming Political Culture. A case study of the “For Honesty in Politics!” message group Latvia, 2007 by Ingus Bērziņš Transformation of Cultural Preferences in Estonia by Maarja Lõhmus & Anu Masso Taste 2.0. Social Network Site as Cultural Practice by Antonio Di Stefano Online Communication A New Battlefield for Forming Elite Culture in China by Nanyi Bi Internet, blogs and Social Networks for Independent and Personal Learning of Information Theory and Other Subjects in Journalism, Advertising and Media by Graciela Padilla & Eva Aladro The Artist and Digital Self-presentation: a Reshuffle of Authority? by Joke Beyl Communicative Image Construction in Online Social Networks. New Identity Opportunities in the Digital Age by Bernadette Kneidinger Digital Identity: The Private and Public Paradox by Stacey M. Koosel Mystory in Myspace Rhetoric of Memory in New Median by Petra Aczél Life Publishing on the internet – a playful field of life-telling by Sari Östman From the Gutenberg Galaxy to the Internet Galaxy. Digital Textuality and the Change of Cultural Landscape by Raine Koskimaa The “Open” Ideology of Digital Culture by Robert Wilkie Digital Poetry and/in the Poetics of the Automatic by Juri Joensuu Re: appearing and Disappearing Classics. Case Study on Poetics of Two Digital Rewritings by a Finnish Poet by Marko Niemi, Kristian Blomberg Cybertextuality meets transtextuality by Markku Eskelinen Metafictionality and deterritorilization of the literary in the hypertexts by Anna Wendorff The Public Sphere of Poetry and the Art of Publishing by Risto Niemi-Pynttäri Solitude in Cyberspace by Piret Viires & Virve Sarapik Reprogramming Systems Aesthetics: A Strategic Historiography by Edward A. Shanken Stepping towards the immaterial: Digital technology revolutionizing art by Christina Grammatikopoulou Creativity in Surveillance Environment: Jill Magid and the Integrated Circuit by Amy Christmas Audience Interaction in the Cinema: An Evolving Experience by Chris Hales Delay and non-materiality in telecommunication art by Raivo Kelomees Robot: Ritual Oracle and Fetish by Thomas Riccio Digital art and children’s formal and informal practices: Exploring curiosities and challenging assumptions by Steven Naylor Locative Media and Augmented Reality: Bridges and Borders between Real and Virtual Spaces by Marisa Luisa Gómez Martíne