Research Fellow
Institute for International Relations - IMO
Department for Culture and Communication, Lj. F. Vukotinovica 2, HR-10000, Croatia
Tel +385 1 48 77 460 / Fax +385 1 48 28 361
Institution email: ured@irmo.hr
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Biography
Aleksandra Uzelac is a research associate at the Institute for International Relations (IMO) in Zagreb and Head of the Culture and Communication Department at IMO. She holds a PhD (2003) in information science from the University of Zagreb.
She has 16 years of professional experience in the area of cultural research related to issues of digital culture. Her research interests focus on the impact of ICT on cultural issues, digital culture, virtual networks and portals, digitalisation of culture, organization of knowledge in the cultural field, issues of public domain and cultural heritage, cultural policy and cultural cooperation issues and the changing context that virtual culture has brought to cultural policies. Her present interest centers on the impacts of globalization and commercialization of society and the virtual sphere on cultural diversity. In 2008 she was co-editor and one of the contributors of the book Digital Culture: The Changing Dynamics.
Since 2000 her research activities were combined with practical initiatives aimed at developing the e-culture infrastructure in Croatia. She was the initiator of the CultureNet Croatia project in 2000 - the national cultural portal, a project initiated jointly by the Open Society Institute Croatia and the Ministry of Culture. As of 2001 she has been a member of the steering board for the portal development.
She is a member of the Culturelink Network team and the Culturelink editorial board since 1993, as well as a member of the international steering committee of the CultureMondo Network www.culturemondo.org (2006 – present).
Employment history
1993 - date - Institute for International Relations
(Croatia) -
University education and honours
2003 Ph.D.
Information Sciences University of Zagreb (Croatia)
1998 M.Sc.
Information Sciences University of Zagreb (Croatia)
Books published - authored and edited
Aleksandra Uzelac and Biserka Cvjetičanin (editors) (2008) Digital Culture: The Changing Dynamics, Zagreb, Institute for International Relations, ISSN/ISBN:978-953-6096-46-6
Articles or chapters
Uzelac, Aleksandra (2010) 'La cultura digital, un paradigma convergente donde se unen la tecnología y la cultura: desafíos para el sector cultural ( Digital culture as a converging paradigm for technology and culture: Challeng' IN: Digithum 12 , ISSN/ISBN:1575-2275
Uzelac, Aleksandra (2009) 'The Place of Cultural Portals in the context of converging digital culture: Analysis of the Third Culturemondo International Survey of Cultural Portals' IN: ,
Aleksandra Uzelac (2008) 'How to understand digital culture: Digital Culture - a resource for a knowledge society?' IN: Digital Culture: The Changing Dynamics 7-21, ISSN/ISBN:978-953-6096-46-6
Aleksandra Uzelac, Daniela Angelina Jelincic (2008) 'ICT as Interface for Cultural Consumption and its Application for Cultural Tourism (La TIC como interfaz para el consumo cultural y su aplicación en el turismo)' IN: ADOZ - Revista de Estudios de Ocio (Journal of Leisure Studies) 32 63-81, ISSN/ISBN:1887-1585
Aleksandra Uzelac (2008) 'Informacijsko društvo - tržište ili civilno društvo?' IN: Mediji, kultura i civilno društvo 75-104,
Aleksandra Uzelac (2008) 'Kulturni portali - strukture virtualne komunikacije ( Cultural portals – Structures of Virtual Communication )' IN: Connecting Croatia: Javni, privatni i civilni sektor kulture u virtualnom prostoru 63-80, ISSN/ISBN:978-953-6096-473
Aleksandra Uzelac (2007) 'El Reconocimiento de las Redes en el Campo Cultural: Modelos de Redes en el Ambito Real y Virtual (Recognising Networks in Cultural Field: Network Models in Real and Virtual Sphere)' IN: Periférica - Revista para el análisis de la cultura y el territorio 8 133-155, ISSN/ISBN:1577-1172
Aleksandra Uzelac (2006) 'Cultural Networks in Virtual Sphere - Between Infrastructure and Communities' IN: Dynamics of Communication: New Ways and New Actors 305-317, ISSN/ISBN:978-953-6096-39-8
Aleksandra Uzelac (2005) 'eCulture: Cultural Goods Between Public Domain and Private Property' IN: eCulture: The European Perspective Cultural Policy, Creative Industries, Information Lag 31-40, ISSN/ISBN:953-6096-36-6
Aleksandra Uzelac, Biserka Cvjetičanin (2005) 'eCulture - a trans-generational issue?' IN: Whose Culture is it? Trans-generational approaches to culture 40-44,
Aleksandra Uzelac (2005) 'Cultural Networks and Cultural Portals: A New Infrastructure for Cultural Sector' IN: Documentation and Users - Proceedings of the CIDOC Annual Conference article, ISSN/ISBN:953-6942-15-1
Aleksandra Uzelac (2004) 'Virtual networks in culture: between citizens and consumers' IN: Trans. Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 15 article,
Aleksandra Uzelac (2004) 'Digitalna kulturna dobra u informacijskom društvu između javne domene i privatnog vlasništva ( Digital Cultural Goods in the Information Society between the Public Sphere and Private Ownership )' IN: Medijska istraživanja (1330-6928) 10 / no. 1 37-53,
Aleksandra Uzelac (2003) 'Technology as a Tool for Diversity' IN: Culturelink review 41 127-132,
Zrinjka Peruško Čulek, Aleksandra Uzelac (2000) 'Transition as a Menace? Women in the Arts and Media in Croatia' IN: Pyramid or Pillars: Unveiling the status of women in arts and media professions in Europe 293-297,
Aleksandra Uzelac (2000) 'Semiological perspective to the organisation of knowledge in museums' IN: Proceedings of INFORMATICA 2000: IV Congreso internacional de informatica en la cultura article, ISSN/ISBN:959-7160-01-3
Languages: Croatian, English, Spanish
Nationality: Croat
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