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Wright, David (2019) Towards a computational cultural policy studies : examining infrastructures of taste and participation. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 25 (6). pp. 806-820. doi:10.1080/10286632.2017.1420789 ISSN 1028-6632.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2017.1420789
Abstract
Like other disciplines within the humanities and social sciences, cultural policy studies has had to respond to the influence of computing technologies. Researchers have explored the changes wrought to the management of cultural organisations, to the models of the creative industries and to new forms of access to culture and the arts. This paper suggests that these emphases might miss how computing technologies are re-shaping the project of cultural policy in a more fundamental direction. The paper draws on the work concerned with the cultural values of computing technologies and their influence on contemporary modes of government. These values, of instrumental reason, categorisation and calculation underpin a range of technologies, which are increasingly present in and important to the management of everyday life. Reflecting on how cultural taste and participation are being re-shaped by computing technologies, the paper argues these infrastructures are informed by specific visions of the kinds of people who live with and through them and how such people can be governed. The longstanding focus of cultural policy studies - about how states are concerned with the cultural formation of their citizens– are keenly present in the strategic ambitions and imperatives associated with computation.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology | ||||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies > Centre for Cultural Policy Studies Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Cultural policy, Technological innovations -- Social aspects, Popular culture, Group identity -- Social aspects, Aesthetics -- Social aspects | ||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Cultural Policy | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||||
| ISSN: | 1028-6632 | ||||||||||
| Official Date: | 2019 | ||||||||||
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| Volume: | 25 | ||||||||||
| Number: | 6 | ||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 806-820 | ||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/10286632.2017.1420789 | ||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 January 2018 | ||||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 5 July 2019 |
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