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Capital of culture and capital from culture:rhetoric and risks of the cultural 'growth machine'
No full textBig data:hell or heaven? Digital platforms and market power in the data-driven economy
Full text linkDigital transformation has triggered a process of concentration in several markets for information goods with digital platforms rising to dominate key industries by leveraging on network externalities and economies of scale in the use of consumer data. The policy debate, therefore, focuses on the market control allegedly held by incumbents who build their competitive advantage on big data. In this paper, we evaluate the risk of abuse of a dominant position by analysing three major aspects highlighted in economic theory: entry barriers, price discrimination, and potential for technological improvement. Drawing on industrial and information economics, we argue that the very nature of big data, on the one hand, prompts market concentration and, on the other, limits the possibility of abuse. This claim is not an a-priori apologia of large incumbents in digital markets, but rather an attempt to argue that market concentration is not necessarily detrimental when it stimulates continuous innovation. Nonetheless, the concentration of power in a few global players should raise other concerns linked with the supranational nature of these firms, which can easily cherry-pick locations to exploit tax competition among countries or more favourable privacy legislation and the fair use of data
L'analisi regionale delle interdipendenze settoriali attraverso le reti neurali Som: l'indice RSR e l'entropia di Shannon
Full text linkGli studi di impatto dei festival: esperienze e riflessioni
No full textL'obiettivo principale del presente lavoro è quello di valutare opportunità e limiti degli studi di impatto in ambito culturale, sulla base dei lavori di indagine condotti dagli autori su due festival realizzati a Milano e Napoli. La prima edizione del Festival MITO SettembreMusica (MITO) ha avuto luogo nel settembre del 2007 ed è stata promossa e realizzata dall'Associazione per il Festival Internazionale della Musica di Milano. Il Napoli Teatro Festival Italia (NTFI) è stato invece organizzato, per la prima volta, nel giugno 2008 dalla Fondazione Campania dei Festival. Questi casi mostrano che un semplice studio di impatto economico potrebbe essere fuorviante per valutare la complessa interazione tra il Festival, il campo artistico e il contesto urbano: un approccio multi-dimensionale rende possibile un’osservazione e una valutazione più completa degli obiettivi e dei risultati raggiunti dai festival. Il monitoraggio di tali eventi non dovrebbe essere solo un esercizio di marketing, ma una componente strategica per le organizzazioni culturali
Proximity tourism and cultural amenities: Evidence from a regional museum card
Full text linkAlthough cultural tourism has generated extensive literature, it has often overlooked proximity tourism practices and the determinants of visits to near-home cultural amenities, often located in rural destinations with lower market appeal. This article investigates visiting behaviors and characteristics of intra-regional flows from urban settings toward museums and heritage sites located in surrounding areas. We use a unique transactional data set of about 76,000 subscribers to a regional museum card in Piedmont (Italy) to analyze visiting patterns in the 2011–2014 period from the city of Turin to out-of-town cultural institutions. Our empirical analysis shows that being male, having lower socioeconomic status, visiting home-based museums, and loyalty to the card program are the most relevant factors explaining propensity to out-of-town visits. At the same time, a clear polarization of visits between a limited number of cultural attractors and the tail of minor heritage sites suggests that differences in museum characteristics can generate distinct motivations for visits to the two types of cultural institutions. From a policy perspective, although a definitive evaluation of the effect of the museum card on proximity tourism cannot be undertaken, findings suggest that bundle of minor attractions and major urban museums can generate indirect network advantages, foster cultivation of taste, and eventually stimulate both the demand for regional destinations and the development of original cultural programs.Although cultural tourism has generated extensive literature, it has often overlooked proximity tourism practices and the determinants of visits to near-home cultural amenities, often located in rural destinations with lower market appeal. This article investigates visiting behaviors and characteristics of intra-regional flows from urban settings toward museums and heritage sites located in surrounding areas. We use a unique transactional data set of about 76,000 subscribers to a regional museum card in Piedmont (Italy) to analyze visiting patterns in the 2011-2014 period from the city of Turin to out-of-town cultural institutions. Our empirical analysis shows that being male, having lower socioeconomic status, visiting home-based museums, and loyalty to the card program are the most relevant factors explaining propensity to out-of-town visits. At the same time, a clear polarization of visits between a limited number of cultural attractors and the tail of minor heritage sites suggests that differences in museum characteristics can generate distinct motivations for visits to the two types of cultural institutions. From a policy perspective, although a definitive evaluation of the effect of the museum card on proximity tourism cannot be undertaken, findings suggest that bundle of minor attractions and major urban museums can generate indirect network advantages, foster cultivation of taste, and eventually stimulate both the demand for regional destinations and the development of original cultural programs
Beyond Class Stratification: The Rise of the Eclectic Music Consumer in the Modern Age
Full text linkThis article contributes to the literature on the association between class position and cultural tastes by analyzing a unique historical data set and asking whether there were significant class differences in the consumption of music in the 19th century. Archival data from a publisher in Milan are used to analyze the characteristics of customers who purchased sheet music between 1814 and 1823. To avoid contemporary depictions of cultural hierarchies (e.g. ‘highbrow’, ‘lowbrow’ and ‘omnivorous’ tastes), we offer a new method for considering both the quantitative and qualitative dimensions of music consumption. Considering both the aggregate level of music consumption and the evolution of individual patterns over time, we find little evidence that musical tastes were aligned with class position. This finding calls for more research on the origins of the strong link between social structure and cultural preferences in general, or between class position and musical tastes in particular, which we witness today
Cities and Urban Studies: Four Perspectives on Museums
No full textArt museums and cultural institutions more generally have often been perceived as special components of cities. Multiple dimensions contribute to understand their role and effect on citizens and visitors. This chapter covers four major perspectives by providing essential discussion and examples drawing on international urban studies and planning debates.
First, cities are sociopolitical organizations and art museums’ organizations and buildings often embody civic and cultural values. Second, art museums are central components of socio-economic systems of cultural production and consumption, as they may be part of cultural clusters, districts and quarters or attractors for tourism and other activities. Third, museums often stand out in the urban fabric, as landmarks and iconic elements in the urban landscape. Fourth, museums have become center pieces in urban regeneration plans and projects with high attention paid to their design and visual appeal. Drawing on a joint overview of these four perspectives and on a set of short examples, this chapter portends a complex understanding about the relationships between art museums and cities
Cities and Urban Studies: Four Perspectives on Art Museums
No full textThis chapter asks, What can visitors learn about the art museum and the city from urban studies? We tackle this question from four perspectives, and in particular, we draw on a few of our previous publications position
ing the investigation in the literature about museums in general. We dis
cuss basic conceptualizations from values, to economies, to the built environment, and, finally, to future transformations and offer examples specific to art museums. Section 2 explains how museums can be seen as bearers of civic and cultural values and describes the emblematic case of Newcastle and Gateshead, in the United Kingdom. Section 3—based on Nuccio and Ponzini (2017) and Ponzini (2009)—analyses the connections between museums and cultural districts and illustrates the impact of the agglomeration of cultural institutions in the Mount Vernon Cultural District in Baltimore, Maryland. Section 4 brings to the forefront the role of museums in the city fabric, considering both museums as landmarks and their surroundings (based on Ponzini, 2020). Finally, Sect. 5—based on Ponzini (2011)—focuses on museums as flagships and provides a critical perspective on the case of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. The conclusion brings this thread together to show four ways through which visitors and citizens can see the connections between the city and the art museum
6 • La prossimità geografica come fattore di competitività Tra i distretti e i contratti di rete
Full text linkThis chapter focuses on the analysis of the geographical dimension of network contracts, delving into the concept of geographical proximity. The literature highlights how proximity is essential for knowledge sharing and collaborative innovation. The
present chapter explores the dimension of geographical proximity in business networks
in Italy, capturing the evolution of this dimension from 2016 to 2022. The results show
that, despite the network contract being conceived as a collaboration tool independent
of the geographical proximity of businesses, there is a growth in the territorial concentration of networks over time, suggesting that territorial proximity is a facilitating factor
for collaboration
Platform-enabled business models in the arts: The impact of digital transformation on visual arts networks
No full textEconomists and sociologists have long discussed value creation in the arts and the mechanisms explaining the exchange of artistic goods. While economic literature has shown how the impossibility of information in arts markets challenges the assumption of traditional economic analysis, sociologists like Becker and Bourdieu conceive value creation in these markets as socially constructed, with actors setting the internal rules of the art “worlds” or “fields”, building success and legitimacy on their relative positions and relationships. However, none of them accounts for the effect of the digital transformation in the visual arts, which has introduced non-human actors (i.e., digital technology) within networks, affecting their performance. As the actor-network theory (ANT) studies networks through the complex interaction between human and non-human agency, this chapter reconsiders an ANT perspective to the understanding of value creation in the visual arts. By classifying platform-enabled business models across visual arts organisations, we contribute to explain the effects of digital transformation and the diffusion of platform-enabled business models on network performance in the arts through shared value creation and enhanced trust
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