Pille Runnel
Pille Runnel is a research director of the Estonian National Museum. She has worked as a researcher at the Institute of Journalism and Commmunication, University of Tartu. She is currently carrying out joint research projects with the Institute in the areas of generations and young people in the emerging information society and museum communication in the context of the information society. Her research interests are centred around ICT and cross-media usage and audiences (governance, participation, digital divide). She has been part of cross-national research initiative EU Kids Online, as well as several research projects about transforming media usage in Estonia. Besides media studies, her research interests have to do with users and digital cultural heritage, visual anthropology and new museology.
In the museum she is responsible for museum’s research agenda and currently also the production of future new permanent exhibitions of the Estonian National Museum. As a curator she works with topics such as consumer society, youth and urban spaces, transition society and post-socialism.
She also works as a director and programmer of World Film Festival, dealing with documentary film rooted in the tradition of anthropological documentary film.
In the museum she is responsible for museum’s research agenda and currently also the production of future new permanent exhibitions of the Estonian National Museum. As a curator she works with topics such as consumer society, youth and urban spaces, transition society and post-socialism.
She also works as a director and programmer of World Film Festival, dealing with documentary film rooted in the tradition of anthropological documentary film.
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The last section of the book Hopeless Youth!, 'Post Scriptum' involves three short pieces, bringing together an insight into the background, starting points and development of this exhibition along with two short case studies from a longer list of topics regarding the urban lifeworlds of youth and kids, the exhibition was exploring.
from the outbreak of hostilities in the Second World War the country suffered the loss of a significant portion of its ethnic population through emigration and deportation, only to have it replaced by Soviet migrants and military units. For the majority of ethnic Estonians much of the twentieth century was an immensely traumatic experience and with the restoration of independence in 1991 came the hope that the nation might pick up from where it left off more than fifty years before. This chapter concerns the Estonian National Museum which was created as a part of the national movement in 1909 and which then established itself as an important symbol of national memory and identity. In the early 1990s, in the ‘period of national awakening’ when the country underwent major reform, there developed the idea of building a new Estonian National Museum. It arose in that period of hope and ideals, which straddled the moment when independence returned, but it soon found itself locked in a period of pragmatism and economic reality (Runnel et al. 2009).
Indeed, with large-scale economic turmoil sweeping Europe in 2009, doubts and questions began to emerge concerning the future of the project to build the museum and the value of a national museum to modern Estonian society.
The study is part of EU Kids Online research project. EU Kids Online research has shown that the internet usage of children in Europe involves constant negotiation of opportunities and risks, which if well balanced will contribute to a meaningful life, a valued identity and satisfactory relations with others.
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The last section of the book Hopeless Youth!, 'Post Scriptum' involves three short pieces, bringing together an insight into the background, starting points and development of this exhibition along with two short case studies from a longer list of topics regarding the urban lifeworlds of youth and kids, the exhibition was exploring.
from the outbreak of hostilities in the Second World War the country suffered the loss of a significant portion of its ethnic population through emigration and deportation, only to have it replaced by Soviet migrants and military units. For the majority of ethnic Estonians much of the twentieth century was an immensely traumatic experience and with the restoration of independence in 1991 came the hope that the nation might pick up from where it left off more than fifty years before. This chapter concerns the Estonian National Museum which was created as a part of the national movement in 1909 and which then established itself as an important symbol of national memory and identity. In the early 1990s, in the ‘period of national awakening’ when the country underwent major reform, there developed the idea of building a new Estonian National Museum. It arose in that period of hope and ideals, which straddled the moment when independence returned, but it soon found itself locked in a period of pragmatism and economic reality (Runnel et al. 2009).
Indeed, with large-scale economic turmoil sweeping Europe in 2009, doubts and questions began to emerge concerning the future of the project to build the museum and the value of a national museum to modern Estonian society.
The study is part of EU Kids Online research project. EU Kids Online research has shown that the internet usage of children in Europe involves constant negotiation of opportunities and risks, which if well balanced will contribute to a meaningful life, a valued identity and satisfactory relations with others.
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