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Published in: openDemocracyUKUser generated content and public service broadcastingA licence fee-generated BBC has a duty to promote user-generated content
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Published in: openEconomySaving philosophy from the suits
The long march of market mechanisms through Britain's cultural institutions has accelerated. Is there a...
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Published in: oDRSiberian Shamans Come in From the Cold (part 3)After decades of repression, Siberia’s shamans are re-emerging. Ken Hyder is a musician who performs with a Tuvan...
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Published in: Shine A LightSamaranch, Kissinger and the Coca Cola company: a relentless fascist’s curious date with democracyClare Sambrook recalls the day Juan Antonio Samaranch, the leader of the 'Olympic Movement' who died last month,...
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Published in: HomeAn east London election: politics and coercion
The dubious tactics used by some party campaigners in Britain’s general election need to be examined as part of a...
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Published in: oDRMayor Luzhkov and the reconstruction of MoscowOn 5th May the Moscow authorities approved a new General Plan described by its critics as “the death-knell” for the...
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Published in: Shine A LightLet’s make sure they really do end child detention now
If they mean the immediate closure of Yarl's Wood, that should be a cause for great rejoicing. This is why we must...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNation speaking peace unto nation
Mark Thompson outlines the BBC's global mission, with cuts to its international services looming.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKToo much asked, too much given: the unsustainable position of the BBC
Too much is expected of the BBC, and, in consequence, it does too much. Such a position is unsustainable, argues David Graham
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Published in: oDRSiberian Shamans Come in From the Cold (part 2)After decades of repression, Siberia’s shamans are re-emerging. Ken Hyder is a musician who performs with a Tuvan...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCivil society and the media: findings from the Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland.
Erin van der Maas outlines the role civil society needs to play to ensure public service media
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Published in: HomeChina’s seasonal politics
The changing shape of China’s cultural calendar raises sensitive questions of politics, class and ethnicity that its...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKReinventing public service communication
Petros Iosifidis outlines the looming challenges to national public service broadcasters in Europe
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Published in: HomeIdentity dragIdentity has emerged as one of the most pressing questions of our time. Travis Jeppesen looks at how the Berlin...
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Published in: HomeTaking YouTube seriously
A group of anthropologists describe their participant observations on YouTube
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Published in: HomeSiberian Shamans Come in From the ColdAfter decades of repression, Siberia’s shamans are re-emerging. Ken Hyder is a musician who performs with a Tuvan...
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Published in: oDRPsychotherapy returns to Russia
The return of psychotherapy to Russia after Stalin’s ban has had to overcome many obstacles, including Russian...
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Published in: openSecurityUnprecedented protests in Lebanon call for secularism
Lebanese protestors demand secularism. Thai PM rejects protestors’ offer as counter-movements gain strength. Clashes...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKGetting over our public service broadcasting addiction
Adam Singer asks whether institutional preservation is stifling innovation
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEngland's Henry Moore: The sculptures of "the greatest Englishman"A new major exhibition of the man who was England's greatest sculpture ignores, yet borrows from, the controversial...
