[ecrea] Welcome to Culture Unbound - a New Journal for Current Cultural Research!

> Welcome to Culture Unbound, Volume 1, 2009
> http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/index.html
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> Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research is a new, refereed,
> open-access e-journal that seeks to be a forum for contemporary cultural
> research from a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary areas.
> We celebrate the birth of Culture Unbound with a first thematic section that
> focuses on the crucial question "What's the Use of Cultural Research?" Here,
> we have brought together a number of prominent authors to develop their
> different perspectives on the role and future of cultural research in a time
> when the political and academic landscape is shifting rapidly. The articles
> touch on some of the central conflicts for cultural research today: To what
> extent can cultural research be applied in different political and commercial
> contexts? Is the academic autonomy threatened by a growing emphasis on
> practical applicability and formal evaluations? What is the role of cultural
> research in academia today and in the future? Featured articles are:
>
> Tom O'Dell: What's the Use of Culture?
> Billy Ehn & Orvar Lofgren: Ethnography in the Market Place
> Yudhishthir Raj Isar: Cultural Policy: Towards a Global Survey
> Mikko Lehtonen: Spaces and Places of Cultural Studies
> Sharon Rider: The Future of the European University: Liberal Democracy or
> Authoritarian Capitalism?
>
> In addition to this we also release a number of new articles on other topics:
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> Murray Dineen: Schoenberg and the Radical Economies of Harmonielehre
> Andreas Gunnarsson: The First Swede in Space: The Making of a Public
> Science Hero
> Stefania Kalogeraki: The Divergence Hypothesis in Modernization Theory
> across Three European Countries: The UK, Sweden and Greece
>
> You can access all articles for free at:
> http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/index.html
>
> We also welcome new article manuscripts in all areas of cultural research, as
> well as proposals for future theme sections.

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (CeMeSO)
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