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Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, published by the University of Luton Press / UK, Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer 1998, ISSN: 1354 8565 ISBN: 1-86020-032-X 

Contents of "New Media Cultures in Eastern, Central and South-Eastern Europe", guest-edited by Inke Arns
 

1. Editorial
New Media Cultures in Eastern, Central and South-Eastern Europe
by Inke Arns (guest-editor)
 

2. Debates

Lev Manovich
Behind the Screen: Russian New Media

Geert Lovink
Intermedia: The Dirty Digital Bauhaus. An E-mail exchange with János Sugár

Eric Kluitenberg
Connectivity, New Freedom, New Marginality. A Report from the Baltic Cyber-corridor

Marina Grzinic
The Representation of the Body under 'Communism'

Igor Markovic
Periphery vs Province
 

3. Articles (abstracts)

Laura B Lengel
Access to the Internet in East Central and South-Eastern Europe: New Technologies and New Women's Voices 

Oliver Marchart
The East, the West and the Rest: Central and Eastern Europe between Techno-Orientalism and the New Electronic Frontier

Ágnes Gulyás
In the Slow Lane of The Information Superhighway: Hungary and the Information Revolution [57,3 KB]
 

4. Feature Reports

Andreas Broeckmann
Towards a European Media Culture - which Culture, which Media, which Europe?

Kathy Rae Huffman
Video from Bosnia: A Meeting Point of Memory and Reality
 

5. Reviews

Inke Arns
Pioneers Revisited: Documenting Aspects of the first two Decades of Media Art in Germany (review of Rudolf Frieling and Dieter Daniels, Media Art Action. The 1960s and 1970s in Germany, Vienna and New York: Springer, 1997)

Oliver Marchart
The Plague of Virtuality: Slavoj Zizek reads VR through the Lacanian interface (review of Slavoj Zizek, The Plague of Fantasies, London and New York: Verso, 1997)

Anna Bálint
Garden of Communication: Artpool Art Research Center web site

Miklós Peternák
Three years of Internet-Art in Hungary: An annotated List of Sites and Events

Stephen Quinn
Pioneering Spirit and Technology: The Future of the Information Highway in Africa
 

6. Notes on Contributors [click here]


Convergence is a paper journal. For further information and details of back issues see their web site at <http://www.luton.ac.uk/Convergence>. 
Editorial e-mail: <Convergence@luton.ac.uk>

Orders should be sent direct to: 
Journal Subscriptions, University of Luton Press, Faculty of Humanities, University of Luton, 75 Castle Street, Luton LU1 3AJ, UK
E-mail: <ulp@luton.ac.uk> Tel:+44 1582 743297. Fax: +44 1582 743298.