Russian and Eastern/Central European cyberconflict research update

[Michel Bauwens]

Our friend and colleague

Athina Karatzogianni

contributed a paper (4.9) on Russian hackers, various cyberconflicts, and media implicating them in the Climategate hack, which is part of an interesting issue of the journal Digital Icons:

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Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media

Issue 4: War, Conflict and Commemoration in the Age of Digital Reproduction

http://www.digitalicons.org/

This issue of Digital Icons explores the ways in which wars and conflicts are mediated, commemorated, reported and discussed on the Internet as well as in other forms of new media, including mobile phones, digital broadcasting and computer games. The issue examines the role of new media in understanding, representing, negotiating and remembering (or forgetting) war and terror; the status of testimony, evidence and reportage in the age of digitalreproduction; practices of memory in relation to new information and communication technologies; and structures of feeling that operate in on-line reports and debates around military operations and human suffering.

This issue of Digital Icons is guest-edited by Dr Adi Kuntsman (University of Manchester).

4.0 Editorial | Vlad Strukov

4.1 Online Memories, Digital Conflicts and the Cybertouch of War | Adi Kuntsman

4.2 The Commemoration of Nazi ‘Children’s Euthanasia’ Online and On Site | Lutz Kaelber

4.3 World War 2.0: Commemorating War and Holocaust in Poland Through Facebook | Dieter De Bruyn

4.4 Past Wars in the Russian Blogosphere: On the Emergence of Cosmopolitan Memory | Elena Trubina

4.5 Deadly Game along the Wistula: East European Imagery in Oshii’s ‘Avalon’ (2001) | Gérard Kraus

4.6 Oshii’s ‘Avalon’ (2001) and Military-Entertainment Technoculture | Patrick Crogan

4.7 ‘The Weight of Meaninglessness’ | Naida Zukić

4.8 ‘Roma Snapshots: A Day in Sarajevo’ | Vanja Čelebičić

4.9 The Portrayal of Russian Hackers During Cyber Conflict Incidents | Athina Karatzogianni

4.10 A Study on a Russian-American Non-Reflexive Discourse | Olga Baysha

4.11 Web Wars: Digital Diasporas and the Language of Memory | Ellen Rutten

4.12 Book Reviews

The full issue is available online on http://www.digitalicons.org/.

For more information, please visit the website or write to the editors: [e-mail]

Digital Icons Editor: Vlad Strukov (London)

Digital Icons Editorial Team: Sudha Rajagopalan (Utrecht), Robert Saunders (New York) and Henrike Schmidt (Berlin).

Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media (Digital Icons) is an online publication that appears twice per year. The journal is a multi-media platform that explores new media as a variety of information flows, varied communication systems, and networked communities. Contributions to Digital Icons cover a broad range of topics related to the impact of digital and electronic technologies on politics, economics, society, culture, and the arts in Russia, Eurasia, and Central Europe. Digital Icons publishes articles from scholars from a variety of academic backgrounds, as well as artists' contributions, interviews, comments, reviews of books, digital films, animation, and computer games, and relevant cultural and academic events, as well as any other forms of discussion of new media in the region.