Cultural policy and creative industries: The info-communication network industry

Nowadays digital technology is part of our everyday life. The info-communication network industry becomes a fact of life for civil society worldwide, involving many actors – politicians, newspapers, broadcasters, activists, non-governmental organisations, info-communication firms, software providers and political parties. The info-communication network industry has transformed the online newspaper and online broadcasting experience. Instead of having content trapped on static print pages and on traditional television channel that are updated daily, the online edition can offer timely breaking news much like a online television or radio news show, and like online television, provide online video access to important news events and newsmakers. This raises obvious questions for the role of the newspapers, the television and the radio in the recent cultural and economic crisis. As the info-communication network industry gets more complex and chaotic, regular citizens/users/consumers are gaining access to digital entertainment, information and education anywhere and at anytime.

This paper examines and analyses the digital content production, the structure of the info-communication network industry and the role of digital content management in the information and knowledge society. Moreover, it analyses the crisis in the cultural policy together with the recent crisis in the creative industries. Finally, it strongly recommends that the info-communication network industry is likely to be the main digital platform for producing and disseminating the digital content in the free market economy.