How to understand digital culture: Digital culture - a resource for a knowledge society?

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DIGITAL CULTURE:
THE CHANGING DYNAMICS

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This Work has been published with the financial support of the UNESCO Office in
Venice - UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe.
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Digital Culture:
The Changing Dynamics
Edited by
Aleksandra Uzelac
Biserka Cvjetièanin
Institute for International Relations
Zagreb, 2008

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Culturelink Joint Publications Series No 12
Series editor
Biserka Cvjetièanin
Reviewers
Damir Boras
Colin Mercer
Nenad Prelog
Language editor
Charlotte Huntly
Cover design
Architecture in Digital Age
Peneziæ and Rogina Architects
Printed and bound by
M.G.T. d.o.o.
Zagreb
Publisher
Institute for International Relations
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© Institute for International Relations
Catalogization-in-Publication (CIP) for this book is
available from the National and University Library,
Zagreb, number 673901.
ISBN 978-953-6096-46-6

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C o n t e n t s
FOREWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3
INTRODUCTION
How to understand digital culture: Digital culture - a resource
for a knowledge society?
Aleksandra Uzelac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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PART ONE
DIGITAL CULTURE – THE NEW SOCIAL ECOLOGY
New realities, new policies?
Rob van Kranenburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Media users: from readership to co-creators
Helena Popoviæ and Hajrudin Hromad iæ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Transformations of cultural production, free culture
and the future of the Internet
Tomislav Medak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Access, piracy and culture: the implications of digitalization
in Southeastern Europe
Jaka Primorac and Krešimir Jurlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Copyright and the digital age: a contradictio in terminis
Joost Smiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
PART TWO
CONCEPTUALISING POLICIES FOR DIGITAL CULTURE
Challenges for cultural policies: the example of digital culture
Biserka Cvjetièanin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Digital culture in policy documents: the national(istic) perception
of cultural diversity - the case of Slovenia
Vesna Èopiè . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
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Managing culture in virtual realms: policy provisions
and issues - a European perspective
Ana uvela Bušnja and Daniela Angelina Jelinèiæ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
PART THREE
CULTURAL PRACTICES IN THE DIGITAL TERRITORY
Ecology of the media and hyperhumanism
Hervé Fischer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Turning cultural websites inside out:
changes in online user behaviour,
Web 2.0 and the issues for the culture sector
Jane Finnis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
The online power of users and money: can culture gain?
Lidia Varbanova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
A glance at the Cuban culture through its cultural portals
Carlos A. Más Zabala, Idelsis Gallardo Rodríguez,
Indira Izquierdo Rodríguez, Raúl Colón Rodríguez,
Yadnara Martínez Fresneda, Dunieska Cstañeda Vega,
Yaimara Camacho González . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Authors in this volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
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