Overview
Issues of cultural policy are of central importance now because forms of media are growing at an astonishing rate - new media like video games and chat rooms as well as modified older forms such as virtual access to museums, libraries and art galleries on the Internet.The digital revolution gives rise potentially to a culture of 'real virtuality' in which all the cultural artefacts of the world, past and present, may become instantly available at any time.
The book will chart the decline and renewal of public cultural policy and a wide range of contemporary issues.
Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Loughborough University. Associate Fellow in Cultural Policy Research, University of Warwick.
Editorial board member and co-editor designate of The International Journal of Cultural Policy.
Previous books:
'Writers and the Arts Council' (ACGB Pulications, 1981)'Cultural Popularism' (Routledge, 1992)'Studying Culture' (Arnold, 1993 & 1997)'Culture and the Public Sphere' (Routledge, 1996)'Cultural Methodologies' (Sage, 1997)'Technocities' (Sage, 1999)'Modernity and Postmodern Culture' (Open University Press, 1999)
Synopsis
Issues of cultural policy are of central importance now because forms of media are growing at an astonishing rate - new media like video games and chat rooms as well as modified older forms such as virtual access to museums, libraries and art galleries on the Internet.
The digital revolution gives rise potentially to a culture of 'real virtuality' in which all the cultural artefacts of the world, past and present, may become instantly available at any time.
The book will chart the decline and renewal of public cultural policy and a wide range of contemporary issues.
Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Loughborough University. Associate Fellow in Cultural Policy Research, University of Warwick.
Editorial board member and co-editor designate of The International Journal of Cultural Policy.
Previous books:
'Writers and the Arts Council' (ACGB Pulications, 1981)'Cultural Popularism' (Routledge, 1992)'Studying Culture' (Arnold, 1993 & 1997)'Culture and the Public Sphere' (Routledge, 1996)'Cultural Methodologies' (Sage, 1997)'Technocities' (Sage, 1999)'Modernity and Postmodern Culture' (Open University Press, 1999)