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The dossier in this issue is devoted to Digital Culture and focuses particularly on classical arts (performing arts, plastic arts and film). Digital formats and networks are transforming all the parameters of culture, from creation, publication and distribution to social demands and uses. On the one hand, the activities linked to classical culture are being transformed into true cultural industries, as the single original is replaced by the mass distribution of multiple, intangible copies. On the other hand, the cultural industries (records, films, books...) are undergoing a profound transformation in their structures, business models and the relationships between creators and users, with new opportunities for autonomy and participation.
Coordinated by Enrique Bustamante, professor of Audiovisual Communications and Advertising at the Complutense University (Madrid), the dossier comprises original articles on classical culture on the Internet, which offer examples of how conventional art is adapting to digital technologies and networks. The “new” classical culture contains the paradox of entering digital cultural industries, thus overcoming the handicap of having a single original version.
Our guest author is Martín Becerra an outstanding Latin American researcher (Universidad de Quilmes, Buenos Aires) who writes about 'Latin America. The Incubation of a New Culture'. The editorials are signed by Carlos Tirado (A Glance at the Coming Years. Uncertainties, Contradictions and New Forms of Change in ICT) and Concha García Calvo (Production, Distribution and Administration of American Film. Training Audiences for Spanish Film).