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Hort der Vergangenheit oder moderner Publikumsmagnet? Das Handbuch stellt die Gedächtnisinstitution Museum in der Theorie und in ihrem Selbstverständnis vor und geht auf die Aufgaben ein: Sammeln, Dokumentieren, Konservieren, Erforschen, Ausstellen und Vermitteln. Nach einem historischen Überblick greift der Band die gegenwärtige Praxis und die Diskurse der verschiedenen Museumstypen auf. Dabei wird das Museumswesen aus wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive dargestellt von Qualitätsmanagement bis zu Museen als Werbemedien, von Publikumsstrukturen bis zu Museen als öffentliche Bauaufgabe.

Culture—Study and teaching. --- Cultural policy. --- Cultural Theory. --- Cultural Policy and Politics.

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This book presents the mathematical tools that politicians use to make rational decisions about health, education, culture, economy, finance, transportation, and national defense for their citizens. The selection of topics addressed is based on the experiences of four veteran politicians who have doctorates or master’s degrees in mathematics. The exposition also considers the mathematical tools used by politicians to capture votes or optimize their impact on the design of electoral districts, i.e., gerrymandering, without forgetting the mathematics applied to parliamentary activity and political science. Aimed at a general educated readership, a basic knowledge of mathematics is the only requisite to understanding most of the book. Certain sections, denoted in the book with a star, contain more advanced material and require some knowledge of undergraduate math. A later chapter is dedicated to applications and techniques of machine learning and the final chapter discusses a variety of cases where political decisions have affected mathematical development. Readers gravitating towards this book are those who are curious about the history of mathematics, including optimizers and mathematicians who would like to learn more about the historical roots of their discipline. There will also be strong appeal to mathematically-oriented economists, political scientists, and people generally interested in mathematics. Mathematics is – or it should be! – an important part of our culture. The impact of mathematics is sometimes silent, but a powerful one. The authors of this book did an incredible work in digging out areas of mathematical reasoning that pervades social and political life. Reading this book, we will all enrich our vision of mathematics’ value for society. (Nuno Crato, Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Lisbon, former minister of Education and Science of Portugal 2011–2015) This monograph shows in an impressive way that mathematics can be very helpful in making and evaluating political decisions and that it is indispensable in the progressive penetration of all areas of society with scientific methods. This also includes politics. Not everything in politics can be justified or related to mathematics, but politics should not be made in contradiction to mathematical truths. For me, this is a central message of this publication. (Johanna Wanka, Professor of Applied Mathematics, Merseburg University of Applied Sciences, former Minister of Education and Research, Germany 2013–2018).

Mathematical optimization. --- Cultural policy. --- Mathematics. --- Social sciences. --- Optimization. --- Cultural Policy and Politics. --- Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences. --- Public administration --- Decision making

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This book investigates the role of media and communication in processes of democratization in different political and cultural contexts. Struggles for democratic change are periods of intense contest over the transformation of citizenship and the reconfiguration of political power. These democratization conflicts are played out within an increasingly complex media ecology where traditional modes of communication merge with new digital networks, thus bringing about multiple platforms for journalists and political actors to promote and contest competing definitions of reality. The volume draws on extensive case study research in South Africa, Kenya, Egypt and Serbia to highlight the ambivalent role of the media as force for democratic change, citizen empowerment, and accountability, as well as driver of polarization, radicalization and manipulation.

Communication. --- Political communication. --- Cultural policy. --- Media and Communication. --- Political Communication. --- Cultural Policy and Politics. --- Development Communication. --- Intellectual life --- State encouragement of science, literature, and art --- Culture --- Popular culture --- Political communication --- Political science --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Government policy

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This book provides a critical academic evaluation of the ‘music city’ as a form of urban cultural policy that has been keenly adopted in policy circles across the globe, but which as yet has only been subject to limited empirical and conceptual interrogation. With a particular focus on heritage, planning, tourism and regulatory measures, this book explores how local geographical, social and economic contexts and particularities shape the nature of music city policies (or lack thereof) in particular cities. The book broadens academic interrogation of music cities to include cities as diverse as San Francisco, Liverpool, Chennai, Havana, San Juan, Birmingham and Southampton. Contributors include both academic and professional practitioners and, consequently, this book represents one of the most diverse attempts yet to critically engage with music cities as a global cultural policy concept.

Political culture. --- Culture --- Political science --- Cultural policy. --- Culture. --- Cultural Policy and Politics. --- Global/International Culture. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Intellectual life --- State encouragement of science, literature, and art --- Social aspects --- Government policy

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This guidebook, aimed at those interested in studying media industries, provides direction in ways best suited to collaborative dialogue between media scholars and media professionals. While the study of media industries is a focal point at many universities around the world – promising, as it might, rich dialogues between academia and industry – understandings of the actual methodologies for researching the media industries remain vague. What are the best methods for analysing the workings of media industries – and how does one navigate those methods in light of complex deterrents like copyright and policy, not to mention the difficulty of gaining access to the media industries? Responding to these questions, Industrial Approaches to Media offers practical, theoretical, and ethical principles for the field of media industry studies, providing its first full methodological exploration. It features key scholars such as Henry Jenkins, Michele Hilmes, Paul McDonald and Alisa Perren. .

Culture --- Communication. --- Industries. --- Sociology. --- Mass media. --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- Media Studies. --- Cultural Policy and Politics. --- Media Research. --- Study and teaching. --- Mass media --- Economic aspects. --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Industrial production --- Industry --- Economics --- Communication, Primitive --- Sociology --- Cultural studies --- Cultural policy. --- Intellectual life --- State encouragement of science, literature, and art --- Popular culture --- Government policy --- Industries, Primitive