{"product_id":"what-matters-by-julian-meyrick-9781925523805","title":"What Matters?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToo often, cultural leaders and policymakers 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen did culture become a number? When did the books, paintings, poems, plays, songs, films, games, art installations, clothes, and the objects that fill our daily lives become a matter of statistical measurement? When did experience become data?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat Matters?\u003c\/em\u003e intervenes in an important debate about the public value of culture that has become stranded between the hard heads (where the arts are just another industry) and the soft hearts (for whom they are too precious to bear dispassionate analysis).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt argues that our concept of value has been distorted and dismembered by political forces and methodological confusions, and this has a dire effect on the way we assess culture. Proceeding via concrete examples, it explores the major tensions in contemporary evaluation strategies, and puts forward practical solutions to the current metric madness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe time is ripe to find a better way to value our culture by finding a better way to talk about it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46855483359468,"sku":"9781925523805","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781925523805.jpg?v=1759269384","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/what-matters-by-julian-meyrick-9781925523805","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}