Cultural vitality is the evidence of creating, disseminating, validating, and supporting arts and culture as a dimension of everyday life in communities.
Capsule Review: Culture Counts in Communities
An important early initiative/study that helped set the stage for the creative placemaking conversation.
Capsule Review: Quality of Life Indexes for National Policy
This article identifies seven domains of quality of life shared across many indexes. But where is culture?
Capsule Review: Leverage Lost
John Kreidler’s article offers historical analysis and discussion of the nonprofit arts sectors as a dynamic system.
Capsule Review: Watching Alone
There may be a relationship between income aspiration, happiness, and television, but there is disagreement on the best way to assess the magnitude or the causes of that relationship.
Capsule Review: Older adults’ television viewing as part of selection and compensation strategies
The authors found that selection strategies better described older adults’ television viewing behavior than compensation strategies.
Capsule Review: TV Viewing and BMI
Increased television viewing leads to a higher likelihood of obesity, perhaps because of an increased tendency toward sedentary behavior.
Capsule Review: The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t
This is the capsule review accompanying the Research Spotlight article Are you better off than you were 15 years ago? Title: The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t Author(s): Steven Johnson Publisher: The New York Times Year: 2015 URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/magazine/the-creative-apocalypse-that-wasnt.html?_r=0 Topics: art and digital reproduction, commerce, technology, digital economy, culture Method: theory, analysis of secondary data fromRead More
Capsule Review: Do the Psychosocial Risks Associated with Television Viewing Increase Mortality?
The authors find that increased hours spent watching television is associated with lower life expectancy – even among those in good health.
Capsule Review: Final Evaluation of Turnaround Arts Initiative
Turnaround Arts tried to leverage arts education to reboot eight failing schools. Did it work?