{"id":2872,"date":"2009-07-20T06:07:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T06:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2009-07-20T06:07:35","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T06:07:35","slug":"digital-arts-use-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2009\/07\/20\/digital-arts-use-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital arts use in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new April 2009 report from Arts Council England, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artscouncil.org.uk\/downloads\/Consuming-digital-arts.pdf\">&#8220;examining current public attitudes to and experience of arts content online&#8221;<\/a>.  It&#8217;s just been published on their website.  Arts Council reports often need to be taken with a pinch of salt but, surveying just 132 people in the U.K., it found that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Creating and participating in the arts digitally is considered a very niche activity by all segments, appealing only to the most ardent &#8216;leading edge&#8217; enthusiasts. There is little expressed desire for these kinds of opportunities among participants, suggesting that the much discussed &#8216;co-creating&#8217; and &#8216;remixing&#8217; generation is still only a small minority.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>[<em>people<\/em>] &#8220;find the extent and variety of art that is available in the digital space overwhelming and intimidating. [&#8230;] only those who are currently engaged with the arts are likely to explore [<em>future digital<\/em>] opportunities.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Related on the JURN blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2009\/07\/14\/validating-interactive-new-media-as-a-research-output\/\">Validating interactive new media as a research output<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2009\/07\/02\/the-audience-for-quality-intellectual-content-is-constantly-shrinking\/\">The audience for quality intellectual content is constantly shrinking<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Why is this important? If the public, the funders, and even our fellow academics all make a collective <em>mehh, whatever!<\/em> in the face of rich interactive arts-related intellectual production, then the resultant mood risks adding to the ongoing undermining of the humanities &mdash; since it effectively shuts us off from one possible method to refresh and reinvigorate the humanities. A method that might have served to generate public support for spending scarce public cash on arts-related intellectual production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new April 2009 report from Arts Council England, &#8220;examining current public attitudes to and experience of arts content online&#8221;. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2009\/07\/20\/digital-arts-use-in-the-uk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-official-and-think-tank-reports","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}