Panel på ICCPR.
This panel will discuss the
relation between national cultural policies and the digital turn. It is based
on an international and comparative research project, Rapids and backwaters.
Adapting fast and slow to a digital cultural turn, led by Telemark Research
Institute. The other participating institutions are University of Barcelona,
Mid-Sweden University, Erasmus University (Rotterdam), IRMO (Institute of
Development and International Relations, Zagreb), University of Glasgow and
University of Lucerne. The basic idea of the panel is outlined below. It will
present preliminary analysis from an anthology with the same title as the
panel.
What happens when cultural
policy turns, or needs to turn, digital? European countries face great and
similar challenges in the process of making their cultural policies coherent
with a digital turn. Among the central challenges seem to be the following:
- The
internationalization and integration of online markets – making national
policies difficult without international collaboration.
- The emergence of
central, intermediary platforms such as Amazon, Spotify, YouTube, that may
develop market power and effective lobbying on both the national and
international level.
- Technological
convergence – making different kinds of cultural consumption centred around
a small number of technical devices.
- An apparent
pre-eminence of a market logic – making market value the primary value of
a cultural product.
- Tax and regulation
evasion – potentially diminishing national cultural budgets.
- Free trade and
non-discrimination clauses in international trade agreements – making it
difficult to prioritize cultural products from certain countries or a
single country.
- Harmonization and
coordination of policies within the EU and EFTA (European Free Trade
Association) – making it necessary for national cultural policies to
adjust.
