Using cultural theory to navigate the policy process

Using Information Density to Navigate the Web1

This paper describes a system being developed to identify Internet WWW pages that most closely respond to a users' requirements. The system is designed to enhance, rather than replace existing search engines. It collects pages identified by the search engine, and then uses an external lexical thesaurus to analyse their contents. This provides a secondary ordering metric for the pages based on a...

Cultural capital theory vs . cultural policy beliefs : How Pierre

This paper explores the possible uses of Bourdieu‟s cultural capital theory in the making of French state cultural policy. It focuses on the following paradox: this theory had an important if not predominant impact on the intellectual background and expertise of cultural policy, but only limited effects on its actual orientations. To understand this paradox, I go back to the 1960s when both cul...

Rethinking ecosystem services to better address and navigate cultural values

Power, Process and Context in Theory Based Evaluation of Policy Implementation: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Using Information Density to Navigate the Web

This paper describes a system being developed to identify Internet WWW pages that most closely respond to a users' requirements. The system is designed to enhance, rather than replace existing search engines. It collects pages identified by the search engine, and then uses an external lexical thesaurus to analyse their contents. This provides a secondary ordering metric for the pages based on a...