Culture and Technology in the New Europe presents the insights of an international group of academic researchers and media practitioners who examine the impact of technology on East Central Europe, South-Eastern Europe, the Newly Independent States and the Russian Federation. Drawing from the expertise of authors from and working in the region, the book addresses concerns that the New Europe faces at the eve of the Third Millennium and a decade after the fall of communist rule. Such concerns include access to information and communication technology and the culturally-specific discourses articulated through media and technology.While the book focuses on information and communication reforms, and the development of a participatory democracy are examined. The book is distinguished by diverse studies ranging from the problems of Cyber Hate from and about the New Europe, to online activism in war-torn Kosovo, Bosnia, Croatia and Yugoslavia, to how digital media art articulates new cultural and creative freedoms once silenced by the Soviet regime. Finally, the book looks to the future of media, technology and communication in the New Europe, particularly the gaps between post-socialist nations and those more technologically advantaged, and how these gaps can be narrowed or eradicated in the Third Millennium.

Addresses concerns that the New Europe faces at the eve of the Third Millennium and a decade after the fall of communist rule.

Foreward Alfred HermidaPrefaceIntroduction: Culture and Technology in the New Europe Laura LengelTheoretical FoundationsFerment and Transition in the New Europe: Imperatives for a Europe in Transition Priya KapoorContemporary Economic, Sociocultural, and Technological Contexts in the New Europe Anna LubeckaIntellectuals' Civic Discourse in the New Europe: Konrad and Cultural Responsibilities of a Civil Society Noemi MarinThe Internet and the Public Sphere; What Kind Of Space is Cyberspace? Jon MidedAlone in the Crowd: The Politics of Cybernetic Isolation John HorvathConcerns and Challenges in the New EuropeMediated Concerns: The New Europe in Hypertext Dina IordanovaOrganized Innocence and War in the New Europe on Electronic Solitude and Independent Media Geert LovinkCyberHate: The Discourse of Intolerence in the New Europe Elliot GlassmanGender and Technology in the New Europe Laura LengelOnline Orality: The Internet, Folklore and Culture in Russia Bruce McClellandContexts and Pracitce in the New EuropeVideo as Civic Discourse in the Former Yugoslavia: Strategies of Visualization and the Aesthetics of Video in the New Europe Marina GrzincicBuilding Community with Russia on the Internet: Friends and Partners Initiative Margot Emery and Benjamin BatesThe Evolution of Cybernetic Civic Discourse in Post Communist Poland John Parrish-Sprowl and Eric Paul EngelKultura/Technologie Mladych: Youth Culture and Technology in the Czech Republic Zdenka Telnarova, Eva Burianove, and Laura LengalZaMir Transitional Net: Computer-Mediated Communication and Resistance Music in Bosnia-Herzgovina, Croatia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Amy Herron and Eric BachmanThe New Europe the New MillinniumSocialist Media in the Post-Soviet Era Now and in the Future: Reflections on the Asian Experience Drew O. McDanielGeorgia's Media: Options and Oppurtunities for the Third Millennium Nicholas JohnsonCollaboration Through Technology Now and in the Future: Linking the New Europe with the World Christina Preston, Bozena Mannove and Laura LengelThe Future of Culture and Technology in the New Europe Anna LubeckAuthor and Subject Index