This book is an investigation of the cultural work involved in the social process of achieving and maintaining legitimacy as a not-for-profit arts or media organization in the twenty-first century.
Håkon Larsen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, USA.
Preface.- Acknowledgement.- 1 A cultural approach to studies of arts and media organizations.- 2 Performing legitimacy as civil opera houses.- 3 Legitimation work in state funded arts organizations.- 4 The crisis of public service broadcasting reconsidered.- 5 The legitimation rhetoric of public service broadcasters.- 6 Dynamics of legitimation work.