Author: Venturelli, Shalini

Publication Year: 2001

Media Type: Report

Summary:

The Center for Arts and Culture has published a year-long series of issue papers entitled Art, Culture, and the National Agenda to demonstrate how public policy decisions affect our nation's cultural life. In this paper, the first in the series, the author insists that public policy be repositioned in this time of globalization of the Information Economy and the internationalization of cyberspace.

Abstract:

The Center for Arts and Culture has published a year-long series of issue papers entitled Art, Culture, and the National Agenda to demonstrate how public policy decisions affect our nation's cultural life. In this paper, the first in the series, the author insists that public policy be repositioned in this time of globalization of the Information Economy and the internationalization of cyberspace. Cultural and creative challenges must be acknowledged when establishing policies that will govern the production, distribution and exploitation of expression.

CONTENTS

• Redefining Culture in the Global Information Economy.
• Culture and the New Information Space: Shifting the Debate.
• Cultural Wealth of Nations: Key to the Information Economy.
• Culture Moves to the Center of Public Policy.
• Culture and the Conditions of Expression: International Implications.
• Supranational Regulation of the Global Information Society.
• Furthering Creative Freedoms in the Information Society.
• Principles of the Creative Economy: A Historic Challenge to Public Policy.
• References.

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: International, Globalization