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Moving Convergence Culture Beyond ‘Speculative Fiction’ to Grounded Experience: Embedded cultural research
The document discusses the importance of embedded cultural research in understanding the intersection of culture, communication, and participation within creative industries. It critiques the limitations of current participatory cultures and emphasizes the need for empirical data to inform cultural policy and governance. By utilizing qualitative research from embedded cultural practices, the document argues for more nuanced policy development that reflects the cultural complexities of regions and nations.
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Moving Convergence Culture Beyond ‘Speculative Fiction’ to Grounded Experience: Embedded cultural research
- 1. Moving Convergence Cultures Beyond‘Speculative Fiction’ to Grounded Experience: Embedded cultural research Jonathon Hutchinson University of Sydney @dhutchman
- 2. Why? • Perspectives ofcultural studies • Historical rhetoric/debates • Highlight potential for embedded cultural research • Case study – the ABC • Impact on the creative economy?
- 3. Cultural studies… “the makingof society” which “requires the finding of common meanings and direction” (Williams 1958: 93).
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- 5. Convergence cultures to investigatethe impact of media and communication and the potential democratising effects of greater participation
- 6. But… “they have littlein the way of an independent academic or intellectual agenda, but rather see themselves as serving the demands of an industry that seems magically to have shed its association with capital and become unproblematically identified with the people” (Turner 2012: 95)
- 7. The need forempirical data, then?
- 9. The problem withparticipation “One has to feel invited, com- mitted and/or empowered to enter into a participatory process. But the presence of a participatory culture cannot be conflated with participation itself and its logics of equal(ised) power relations” (Carpentier & Dahlgren 2009: 7)
- 10. Creative economy In therecent UNCTAD Creative Economy report (2013), a call for the input between cultural practice and local, national and regional governance policy has been expressed, traditionally labelled ‘cultural policy’
- 11. Point of departure Embeddedcultural practice provides us with rich, qualitative research empirical data This data in turn helps us to understand the cultural tapestry of states, nations & regions This knowledge assists in creating highly nuanced policy and regulation
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