Institut za međunarodne odnose

Head, Department for Culture and Communication
Ph.D. Information Science, University of Zagreb

Education
2003 University of Zagreb - Ph.D. Information Science

1998 University of Zagreb - M.Sc. Information Science
1993 University of Zagreb - B.Sc. Information Science and Ethnology

Research Interests
Dr. Aleksandra Uzelac holds a PhD (2003) in information science from the University of Zagreb.

Dr. Uzelac has been working as research fellow at the Culture and Communication Department of the Institute for International Relations in Zagreb since 1993. She has been taking part in IMO research projects - Contemporary Civilisational Changes and Development of Croatia (1993-1996), Improvement of the International Relations of Croatia: Communication and Cultural Aspects (1997-2001), Media, Communication and Cultural Aspects of Civil Society (2002-2006). Presently (since 2007) she is a reserarcher on the project Cultural Diversity, Intercultural Communication and Digital Culture. Since 2006 she has been Head of the Department for Culture and Communication.

Her research interests focus on the impact of ICT on cultural issues, virtual networks and portals, digitalisation of culture, organization of knowledge in the cultural field and issues of public domain and cultural heritage, cultural information, cultural management and cultural cooperation issues.

Since 2000 her research activities were combined with practical initiatives aimed at developing the e-culture infrastructure in Croatia. Uzelac was the initiator of the CultureNet Croatia project in 2000 - the virtual centre for cultural information, 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. Based on investigation of concrete cultural practice, her interest developed towards virtual networks and portals 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 of cultural diversity.

She is member of the Culturelink Network team since 1993 and member of the Editorial Board of the Culturelink review. She has been involved with different networks working in areas related to digital culture such as Lab for Culture, On-the-Move and Culturemondo Network.

Selected Publications

• Aleksandra Uzelac (2008). 'How to understand digital culture: Digital Culture - a resource for a knowledge society?', . In Digital Culture: The Changing Dynamics , ed. Aleksandra Uzelac and Biserka Cvjetičanin, pp. 7-21, Zagreb, IMO.
• Aleksandra Uzelac (2008). 'Informacijsko društvo - tržište ili civilno društvo?', . In Mediji, kultura i civilno društvo , ed. Zrinjka Peruško, pp. 75-104, Zagreb, Jesenski i Turk.
• Aleksandra Uzelac, Daniela Angelina Jelinčić (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) no. 32; pp. 63-81.
• Aleksandra Uzelac (2006). Cultural Networks in Virtual Sphere – Between Infrastructure and Communities. In Dynamics of Communication: New Ways and New Actors, ed. Biserka Cvjetičanin, pp. 305-317, Zagreb, IMO.
• Aleksandra Uzelac (2005). eCulture: Cultural Goods Between Public Domain and Private Property. In eCulture: The European perspective – Cultural Policy, Creative Industries, Information Lag, ed. Sanjin Dragojević, Diane Dodd, Biserka Cvjetičanin, Cas Smithuijsen, pp. 31-40, Zagreb, IMO.
• Aleksandra Uzelac (2004). Digitalna kulturna dobra u informacijskom društvu između javne domene i privatnog vlasništva. In Medijska istraživanja (Media Research), Vol. 10/1, pp. 37-53.
• Aleksandra Uzelac (2004). Virtual networks in culture: between citizens and consumers. In TRANS - Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften (TRANS - Internet Journal for Cultural Sciences), no. 15, http://www.inst.at/trans/15Nr/02_3/uzelac15.htm
• Aleksandra Uzelac (2003). Technology as a Tool for Diversity. In Culturelink, Vol. 14 (2003), no. 41; pp. 127-132.
• Z. Peruško Čulek; A. 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, ed. Danielle Cliché, Ritva Mitchel, Andreas Joh. Wiesand, pp. 293-297, Bonn, ARCult Media.
• Aleksandra Uzelac (2000). Semiological Perspective to the Organisation of Knowledge in Museums. In Proceedings from the Informatica 2000 - IV Congreso Internacional de Informática en la Cultura, Havana, ISBN 959-7160-01-3 (PDF document, 115 kB)
• S. Dragojević; A. Uzelac; S. Ivić (1997). Assessment of Cultural Information Needs in the Central European Countries in Transition Towards the Market Economy, Paris, UNESCO, pp. 79

For further information, please see the detailed scientific bibliography and the personal homepage.

Contact: IMO, Ul. Lj. F. Vukotinovića 2, P.O. Box 303, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia; tel.: +385-1-4877486; fax: +385-1-4828361; e-mail: sandra@irmo.hr, auzelac@irmo.hr