Samuel Jones
Researcher
Samuel Jones is a researcher at Demos. His research interests include culture and the arts, museums and galleries, creativity and the communication of ideas and knowledge through the cultural sector. In particular, he is interested in cross-cultural communications and the role of culture in international relations. In other work, he has focused on Global English and conversations. Recently, he has undertaken research in both the US and China.
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- Culture Flows Through English Channels, but Not for Long - An article from Wired suggesting that one of the challenges to cultural diversity lies in the media dominance of the English language. from : samjones 13th April 2007
- Cultural Literacy We’re currently developing some work around the idea of cultural literacy. Both Cultural Diplomacy and As You Like It raised the need to focus on a new skill. Mass communication enables us to express and focus on individual interests to a greater degree than ever before and culture has come to the fore as a means by which, and space in which, we relate to each other. But do we have the skills with which we can make the most of this? Historians offer an insight onto what these skills might be. from : samjones 17th April 2007
- Museums and Cultural Literacy On 26th and 27th June, I'll be at a conference on Museums and International Collaboration. I'll be delivering a paper on museums, and their role in 'Building Cultural Literacy'. You can find out more, and read a synopsis of the paper here. from : samjones 13th June 2007
- Building Cultural Literacy from : samjones 17th July 2007
- Building Cultural Literacy Last month, I spoke at a conference at Fudan University in Shanghai. The paper I gave was about the role of cultural providers like museums and the role that they have in building the skills in reading and interpreting cultures. You can download the paper here. from : samjones 17th July 2007
- The Cultural Age Last week, we hosted the first of our Cultural Age Seminars. It addressed education for the cultural age. We've put a transcript of the opening speech on the website - it's available for download here.The next seminar will be held on 23rd June and will address Integration and Cohesion in the Cultural Age. Speakers include Rushanara Ali Associate Director of the Young Foundation, Kim Knott - Head of the AHRC Diaspras, Migration and Identites Programme and Moira Sinclair -... from : samjones 9th June 2008
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Overcoming Cultural Inertia
Last week, I spoke at the Edinburgh International of Politics at an event which asked '"What Does the New Europe Mean For Artists and Cultural Policy Makers?".
The debate focused on the relationship between cultural practice and engagement and identity in an interconnected world.
I've copied the text into this blogpost. from : samjones 26th August 2008