{"id":241,"date":"2009-12-15T18:21:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T18:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=241"},"modified":"2009-12-15T18:21:26","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T18:21:26","slug":"and_the_survey_says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2009\/12\/and_the_survey_says\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Survey Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"applaud.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/applaud.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;\" height=\"216\" width=\"325\" \/>If the NEA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.gov\/research\/2008-SPPA.pdf\">2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts<\/a> and the roundtable discussion that accompanied its release last week are the kind of thing that floats your boat, I tossed my two cents into that pond <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmusicbox.org\/article.nmbx?id=6221\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Aside from the clear need for a reassessment of the parameters we use when surveying American adults about their arts experiences (i.e. what counts as art in these times of dissolving definitions\/genre hierarchies), the big, future-looking question the survey left me with was this: With all we have seen in the evolution of communications technology, is it possible that a trend of cultural participation will actually be seen and strengthened as audiences transition from a position of passive consumption to one of active and engaged parallel creation? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the NEA&#8217;s 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts and the roundtable discussion that accompanied its release last week are the kind of thing that floats your boat, I tossed my two cents into that pond here. Aside from the clear need for a reassessment of the parameters we use when surveying American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}