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. The journal publishes works that explore developments in information and communications technologies and their impact on the governance, economy, and cultural life of the region. Submissions focusing on Internet use and new media forms among the various diasporas of the region are also welcome.

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.

Each issue of the journal may contain a thematic cluster investigating a specific aspect of new media usage in the region; however, submissions on other subjects or themes will also be published in each regular issue. To address timely theoretical and practical concerns of new media use, the journal also publishes special issues. If you wish to prepare and edit a special issue, please contact the editor.

The main goal of the journal is to disseminate research on new media in the region across global communities of scholars, media practitioners, and the general public. Therefore, we aim to present the findings of original research in three languages: English, German, and Russian. We hope to expand our language presentation in the future.

The journal’s editors and the advisory board are comprised of distinguished junior academics and established practitioners from across the globe.

Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media was previously known as The Russian Cyberspace Journal. The journal changed its title in 2009 to reflect a widened geographic scope and the journal’s increasingly complex media orientation.

Digital Icons Editorial Team:

Editor:
Vlad Strukov (London)

Deputy Editors:
Henrike Schmidt (Berlin)
Robert Saunders (New York)
Ellen Rutten (Amsterdam)
Sudha Rajagopalan (Utrecht)

Support Editors:
Pedro Hernandez (Web Design)
Alexandra Yurova (Russian version)
Polina Baigarova (German version)

Advisory Board:
Professor Stephen Coleman (University of Leeds)

Professor Frans Mäyrä (University of Tampere)

Professor Stephen Hutchings (University of Manchester)