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. The journal has a rigorous peer review process: all submissions are reviewed anonymously by two independent experts.

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 by 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.

In addition to regular issues, Digital Icons publishes special thematic issues investigating a specific aspect of new media usage in the region. Special issues are normally guest-edited and Digital Icons invites proposals for special issues in a variety of fields.

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.

Digital Icons Editorial Team:

Editor:
Vlad Strukov (London)

Associate Editors:
Henrike Schmidt (Berlin)
Ellen Rutten (Amsterdam)
Sudha Rajagopalan (Utrecht)
Natalia Sokolova (Samara)

Support Editors:
Polina Baigarova (Berlin)

Pedro Hernandez (London)

Kristen Meredith (Cambridge)

Amanda Wowk (Leeds)

Advisory Board:
Prof Stephen Coleman (University of Leeds)
Prof Frans Mäyrä (University of Tampere)
Prof Stephen Hutchings (University of Manchester)
Dr Robert A. Saunders (State University of New York)