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Transforming Culture in the Digital Age
Editors: Agnes Aljas, Raivo Kelomees, Marin Laak, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Tiina
Randviir, Pille Runnel, Maarja Savan, Jaak Tomberg, Piret Viires
Published by Estonian National Museum, Estonian Literary Museum, University of Tartu
ISBN 978-9949-417-59-9

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10062/14768

Introduction

Promises and Limits of Web-deliberation by Raphaël Kies
Palgrave Macmillan, March 2010, 200 p.
ISBN: 978-0-230-61921-0, ISBN10: 0-230-61921-5

Does the increasing usage of online political forums lead to a more deliberative
democracy? This book answers to this question by presenting the evolution of the public
spaces in a historical perspective, by defining and operationalizing the deliberative
criteria of democracy, and by measuring and evaluating the impact ofvirtualization of

WEB HISTORY
Edited by Niels Brügger, Peter Lang Publishing, New York 2010

Book synopsis
”This is the first edited volume to put the emerging field of web history on the agenda
of internet research. Sixteen original chapters investigate how the use of the web has
developed in the realm of web culture at large, as well as how the organization of web
industries and old media institutions on the web have changed. A number of fundamental
theoretical and methodological questions related to doing web history are also examined.

Avis de parution

Les recherches sur les téléspectateurs.
Trajectoires académiques

Céline Ségur (Université Nancy 2 / CREM)

Préface de Brigitte Le Grignou (Université Paris Dauphine)

Paris, Hermès, 2010, 200 p.

Devenus à leur tour un objet de recherches, les téléspec-
tateurs sont désormais étudiés du point de vue de leur
histoire cognitive et de leurs trajectoires académiques. Cet

The psychology of cultural studies explored in new book by Philip Bell

About the book:

Confronting Theory presents a methodological (philosophical) and educational evaluation
and critique of what has come to be known as Theory (‘with a capital-T’) in
cross-disciplinary humanities education. Rather than merely dismissing Theory writing as
risibly pretentious and abstract, Confronting Theory examines its principal concepts
from the perspective of academic psychology and shows that, although ‘Theory that only

Cultural Diversity and Global Media
The Mediation of Difference
Eugenia Siapera

February 2010 • 416 pages
Paperback • 978-1-4051-8046-7
Hardback • 978-1-4051-8047-4
Cultural Diversity and Global Media explores the relationship between the media and
multiculturalism. Maintaining that the media actively shapes and constructs
understandings of cultural difference, rather than reflecting debates on cultural
diversity, Eugenia Siapera argues that we must look to the media in order to understand

New Book from Nordicom:The Public in Public Service Media. RIPE@2009
Edited by Gregory Ferrell Lowe

Nordicom, University of Gothenburg, 2010, 276 p. ISBN 978-91-89471-94-8

The importance of reconceptualising what public service broadcasting
[PSB] should be and do in the 21st century is a profile issue in media