Access Culture: Web 2.0 and Cultural Participation

TY - JOUR

T1 - Access Culture

T2 - Web 2.0 and Cultural Participation

AU - Valtysson, Bjarki

PY - 2010/5

Y1 - 2010/5

N2 - This article applies aspects of Jürgen Habermas, Manuel Castells and Lawrence Lessig's theories to demonstrate how digital communication and new media platforms enhance cultural participation as well as how cultural policy affects the cultural behaviour of users who produce and are consumers in a digital convergence culture. The digital platforms and new media used in the analysis include an open source animated short film, Elephants Dream, the social networking sites YouTube and MySpace, and the BBC's Creative Archive. The aim of this article is to study how cultural policy makers can learn from these examples and how they can make use of the participatory, self-publishing characteristics of Web 2.0 in order to create accessible digital cultural public spheres.

AB - This article applies aspects of Jürgen Habermas, Manuel Castells and Lawrence Lessig's theories to demonstrate how digital communication and new media platforms enhance cultural participation as well as how cultural policy affects the cultural behaviour of users who produce and are consumers in a digital convergence culture. The digital platforms and new media used in the analysis include an open source animated short film, Elephants Dream, the social networking sites YouTube and MySpace, and the BBC's Creative Archive. The aim of this article is to study how cultural policy makers can learn from these examples and how they can make use of the participatory, self-publishing characteristics of Web 2.0 in order to create accessible digital cultural public spheres.

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1028-6632

VL - 16

SP - 200

EP - 214

JO - International Journal of Cultural Policy

JF - International Journal of Cultural Policy

IS - 2

ER -