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Comparative Cultural Studies 1
Culture, Cultural Policy, and the MediaChair: Steven Totosy (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany and Boston, USA)
Cultural Diversity and Media Policy
Wiesand, A.J. (European Research Institute for Comparative Cultural Policy, Bonn, Germany) and D. Cliche (European Research Institute for Comparative Cultural Policy, Bonn, Germany).
In their paper, "Cultural Diversity and Media Policy," A.J. Wiesand and D. Cliche discuss the results of a research project, as follows. In February 2001, the European Research Institute for Comparative Cultural Policy and the Arts (ERICarts) was asked by the INCP: Working Group on Cultural Diversity and Globalisation to prepare a pilot inventory of national cultural and media policy objectives, programmes, legislation, strategies and tools that support cultural diversity. 5 countries participated in this pilot phase including: Canada, Hungary, Senegal, South Africa and Sweden. The two main areas of concern were the strengthening of diverse cultural expression in the domestic media, literature and artistic fields and the measures to promote diversity and regional development in globalizing markets. Under the direction of Danielle Cliche and Andreas Johannes Wiesand, 15 experts participated in the exercise, which should be considered as a first step in a longer term process towards more transparency in this sensitive area. Despite intense efforts to improve comparability, e.g., with defined indicators in an "authors manual," the pilot study does not claim to paint a comprehensive picture of the usually "mixed realities" in the arts industries or media spheres worldwide and the policies aiming at either regulating them or enhancing cultural diversity by other, e.g., educational means. Other countries and continents would need to be added and a larger scope included to come closer to such a goal. In this respect, comments on the findings will be invited to provide for methodological improvements and fresh ideas for such stock-taking and analytical exercises.
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