Jennifer Smith Maguire - The Cultural Intermediaries Reader

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Victoria Durreris Lecturer in Arts Management and Cultural Policy at Queens University Belfast and has over ten years of international experience in the field of arts management. She is member of the Editorial Team of the new Irish Journal of Arts Management and Cultural Policy. Her research and work focuses on access and participation in the arts and the co-production of cultural provision and policy at local level.Lee Edwards,University of Leeds, teaches and researches on PR as a socio-cultural occupation. A critical scholar, her primary focus is on the operation of power through PR both within the occupational field and in wider society. As well as making theoretical contributions to the understanding of PR, she has published on the exercise of symbolic power through PR as a cultural intermediary, and on diversity in PR.Charles Fairchildis an Associate Professor of Popular Music at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of DJ Danger Mouses The Grey Album (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), Music, Radio and the Public Sphere (Palgrave, 2012) and Pop Idols and Pirates (Ashgate, 2008).Caroline E.M. Hodges,Bournemouth University, teaches and researches on the relationship between communication and culture, with a particular focus on the promotional industries. Sympathetic to ethnographically inspired approaches, her doctoral work studied the lifeworlds of a group of PR practitioners in Mexico City and their occupational role as cultural intermediaries. She is currently involved in collaborative research studying the marketization of subaltern popular culture within the rapidly transforming cities of Lima, Peru and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Aidan Kellyis a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Royal Docks Business School, University of East London. His research interests are in the areas of advertising theory, socio-cultural brand research, marketing practice and consumer research. His work has been published in the Journal of Marketing Management, Advertising & Society Review, Advances in Consumer Research and other edited volumes.Giselinde Kuipersis Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. She has published widely on humour, media, cultural industries and cultural globalization, and is the author of Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke (Berlin/New York, 2006). Currently, she is working on a comparative study of the social shaping of beauty standards in the transnational modelling industry in six European countries, which is funded with an ERC starting grant.Tania Lewisis Associate Professor and a Vice Chancellors Senior Research Fellow in the School of Media & Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne. The author of Smart Living: Lifestyle Media and Popular Expertise (Lang, 2008), editor of Television Transformations (Routledge, 2009), and co-editor (with Emily Potter) of Ethical Consumption: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2011), she has published extensively on lifestyle and reality television. She is a chief investigator on two large Australian Research Council projects: a national study of ethical consumption in Australia; and a comparative project on lifestyle and reality television in India, China, Singapore and Taiwan.Julian Matthewslectures in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester. His research interests include the cultural work of journalists. He is author of Producing Serious News for Citizen Children: A Study of the BBCs Childrens Programme, Newsround (Edwin Mellen Press, 2010) and has published on news production and the professional mediation of social problems, including environmental issues. He also convenes the British Sociological Association Media Study Group and is Communication and Media Section Editor on the international journal Sociology Compass.Liz McFallis Head of Sociology at the Open University. Her work explores how markets are made especially for low finance products like insurance and credit. Her book