Examines how digital communication and digital media have changed the landscape of cultural policy Investigates how communication infrastructures and dominant tech giants increasingly influence how people meet and interact with cultural products Builds theoretical foundations to illuminate the complexities of the changing field of cultural policy

Autorentext

Bjarki Valtysson is Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His current research is focused on digital media, digital cultural politics and algorithmic platform societies. He is the co-editor of Media and the Mundane: Communication across Media in Everyday Life (2016), Technologies of Labour and the Politics of Contradiction (2018) and Cultures of Participation: Arts, Digital Media and Cultural Institutions (2020).

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Digital Communication, Digital Media and Cultural Policy.- 3. The Politics of Cultural, Media and Communication Policy.- 4. Archival Politics.- 5. Institutional Politics.- 6. User Politics Concluding Remarks.