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open access does not have to result in lower quality. It is partly on us to have
sound but fair and objective peer reviews for open source journals.
5) We need to overcome our hostility towards technology that seems to be embedded
in our discipline and that might even reach back to Benjamin and Adorno.
There is a lot to be sceptical or even afraid of when it comes to technology, but
abstaining from it and hoping it will pass us by is not an option. It is on us or our
students to use these tools to our advantage and we have to train them in media
literacy. At German universities, artificial intelligence is the next big thing. A lot
of research funding goes into it. Why not join forces? I am convinced that arts
management can profit from it.
6) Last, but not least, we as educators have to be particularly aware of our responsibilities
and those of public intellectuals (Modood 2019). When I watched TV in
my childhood, there was usually at least one respected person from the cultural
sector or arts scene present at talk shows or political debates. These people have
more or less completely disappeared from the public scene and media. In Germany,
not enough 2 artists or intellectual raise their voices to point out inequities,
even though they are living in a country where doing this would not put them in
danger. When the ever-present Kardashians are the benchmark, we are in deep
trouble!
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2 A relatively recent development in the German arts sector has been the “Declaration of the Many,”
https://www.dievielen.de/multilingual.
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