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Originally from Research in focus: Social entrepreneurship – LabforCulture This Research in focus is devoted to the essence and characteristics of social entrepreneurship as a new global phenomenon, the policy objectives behind social entrepreneurship programmes and their impact on long-term policy decisions, including in the cultural sector. “The most powerful source in the world is [...]

NielsenWire’s A Pocket Guide to Social Media and Kids looks at how kids are using social media. SUMMARY: When is a phone not a phone? In the hands of children and tweens, today’s cell phones are primarily used as text messaging devices, cameras, gaming consoles, video viewers, MP3 players, and incidentally, as mobile phones via [...]

After scanning through Koert van Mensvoort’s Real Nature is not Green, I was a little confused. Maybe I should read it more carefully, but his point seemed relatively straightforward. Culture is that which we control. Nature is all those things that have an autonomous quality and fall outside the scope of human power. In this [...]

Full Story – Real Nature is not Green At the edge of the woods along the motorway near the Dutch town of Bloemendaal, there stands a mobile telephone mast disguised as a pine tree. This mast is not nature: at best, it is a picture of nature. It is an illustration, like a landscape painting [...]