Our job as the city’s arts agency is to heighten the awareness and visibility of artists and cultural organizations in the greater Los Angeles community. We have been engaged in efforts like this for decades through curating and publishing festival guides and heritage month celebration guides. As more people expect to receive information online, we work to digitize our communication efforts by disseminating events based information related to Los Angeles-based arts and cultural community.\u00a0Beyond delivering events information, we could use social media to participate in larger public discourse and advocacy-oriented discussion concerning the role of arts and culture in the local landscape and economy.<\/p>\n
We can measure how well we spread information in spatial terms. The geographical distribution of our information reach can tell us how far content that we’ve generated about LA’s arts and culture has across geographical and physical barriers.<\/p>\n
DCA maintains two Facebook pages, one for the department’s general informational needs and another one for spreading the awareness of the special initiative LA Islam Arts.\u00a0Comparing the two Facebook pages, the LA Islam Arts page received higher reach in the past 4 months than the DCA page received in the last 6 months.<\/p>\n
The LA Islam Arts Initiative Facebook page has information reach that touches 42 countries and 233 cities across the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n