The Digital Turn: Users Practices and Cultural Transformations

By combining the analysis of the new forms and environments of the digital world with critical scholarship of the role of the users, this book argues that cultural field is facing a challenge of the digital turn. The digital turn hereby implies that changes in the use and application of digital technology bring on changes in practice and in the relationships between cultural institutions and audiences. We approach the changes in society from the structural (institutional) as well as from the agential (audiences, users, individuals) perspective. The authors represented in this book share the view that there is no need to fear the new media pushing aside traditional cultural forms, acknowledging at the same time that the scope of this cultural change is far from understood.The Digital Turn: Users Practices and Cultural Transformations 1st Edition and published by Peter Lang Gmb H, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften. ISBNs for The Digital Turn: Users Practices and Cultural Transformations are 9783653023251, 3653023254 and the print ISBNs are 9783631640357, 3631640358.