What Matters?: Talking Value in Australian Culture

by Tully Barnett, Robert Phiddian, Julian Meyrick

Too often, cultural leaders and policy makers want to chase the perfect metric for activities whose real worth lies in our own personal experience. The major problem facing Australian culture today is demonstrating its value--to governments, the business sector, and the public in general. When did culture become a number? When did experience become data?

This book intervenes in an important debate about the public value of culture that has...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1925523802
• ISBN13: 9781925523805
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Monash University Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.2"