www.virtueelplatform.nl/practicetopolicy NEW INTERMEDIARIES While it would be an exaggeration to talk of the death of culture, the case is different with cultural intermediaries – who indeed can disappear, stop having a meaningful function when the cultural ecosystem changes under the influence of new technologies and new practices that are related to them. We believe that despite an ahierarchical model underpinning culture 2.0, the state has an important role to play in this sphere. And in order to do so, its institutions need to adapt to this new environment. An assumption that new intermediaries are fully autonomous from old public institutions would mean a retreat of the state from any cultural activity other than the one focusing on cultural elements that are related to the past, or even archaic. Today, the culture 2.0 ecosystem is overly dependent upon corporate actors, both with regard to the shape of regulation, and the adopted modes of practicing culture. If we wish to differentiate between cultural activity and shopping for content, new ways of thinking about cultural participation, and the institutions that intermediate it, will be vital. ďƒ&#x;
MIROSLAW FILICIAK
ALEK TARKOWSKI
(Poland) works at
(Poland)
The Warsaw School of
sociologist,director
Social Sciences and
of Centrum Cyfrowe
Humanities, where
Projekt: Polska, a
he heads the Center
digital think-and-
for the Study of
do-tank. Public Lead
Popular Culture.
of Creative Commons
http://kultura20.
Polska.
blog.polityka.pl/
http://centrumcy frowe.pl/about-us/
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