Online storage and online transfer is becoming more and more important: especially when we need to share our research work, or we change locations often and we need to access our files from another computer. Computers sometimes create problems and … Read More
Artistic collaboration: could online groups create art?
Collaboration has a long history in art and has always been part of artists’ life. Artists are considered by many as “lonely creatures”, but they also need to perform, to be recognised, to be seen. They can hardly live without … Read More
“We are still at the beginning when it comes to transnational cultural policies”: Therese Kaufmann shares
Therese Kaufmann is a co-director of the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies in Vienna (eipcp), and one of the editors of the multilingual web journal transversal. She currently coordinates the multi-annual research project Creating Worlds (2009-2012). She has worked in a number … Read More
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Cultural policy is a constantly developing multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field: a commentary by Prof.Dr. Anita Kangas
Prof. Dr. Anita Kangas is Director of the Unit for Cultural Policy/Politics Studies at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy in the University of Jyväskylä and Director of the Multidisciplinary PhD School for Cultural Policy in Finland. Previously, she … Read More
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Collaborative online tools on cultural policy
Cultural policy is an important issue worldwide, a focus point for a growing number of public debates, conferences, academic research work, official documents and educational programs. It seems that professionals dealing with policy issues in the cultural sector still lack … Read More
Tags: digitalization, online tools, policy
Mind the complexity, be flexible and constantly enhance your knowledge: A snapshot interview with Sanjin Dragojevic
Sanjin Dragojević, is a Professor in Sociology of culture and Sociology of mass communication as well as in Cultural policy and Media policy at the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb. He also works as consultant to a number of … Read More
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Web search for policy research: selection of online tools
Research in any area is based on gathering, processing, analysing, and interpreting a huge amount of information, and revising human knowledge with a critical view. The main goal of a good research is to “produce” a new piece of knowledge. … Read More
Tags: online content, online tools, research
Stimulating the appetite to explore cultural rights: Annamari Laaksonen talks about the study “Making Culture Accessible”
“We maybe work daily on cultural rights without even realising it”, says Annamari Laaksonen who inspires us to connect policy documents with cultural practice: The study “Making Culture Accessible”, published by the Council of Europe provides a general overview of … Read More
Cultural policy research field: challenges, opportunities and a sense of humour: a snapshot interview with Sharon Jeannotte
Sharon Jeannotte is Senior Fellow at the Centre on Governance of the University of Ottawa. From 2005 to 2007, she was Senior Advisor to the Canadian Cultural Observatory in the Department of Canadian Heritage. From 1999 to 2005, she was … Read More
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A snapshot interview with Colin Mercer
Colin Mercer was the UK’s first Professor of Cultural Policy and Director of the Cultural Policy and Planning Research Unit at The Nottingham Trent University from 1999-2003. He is the author of Towards Cultural Citizenship: tools for cultural policy and … Read More
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