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sj-docx-1-cos-10.1177_00207152231223730 – Supplemental material for Trust repertoires and the reception of institutional responses to the COVID-19 crisis in Europe: A latent class analysis
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-cos-10.1177_00207152231223730 for Trust repertoires and the reception of institutional responses to the COVID-19 crisis in Europe: A latent class analysis by Marc Verboord in International Journal of Comparative Sociology</p
Engagement with Culture in Transformative Times:Mapping the societal drivers and impacts of cultural understandings, practices, perceptions, and values across Europe
No full textAt the heart of this volume are the questions: What does culture mean to European citizens in the face of globalisation, digitalisation, diversity, and social inequality? How do Europeans engage with culture in its various forms, and what societal values are tied to this cultural engagement? These questions are explored in depth across the 15 chapters of this book. By delving into the understandings, practices, perceptions, affordances, and impacts of culture, this book advances the study of the societal values of culture in contemporary European societies, offering insights beneficial to both research and cultural policy work.The book stands out with its five unique features. It embraces an inclusive conception of culture, spanning the arts, popular culture, and everyday cultural practices, both offline and online. It takes a grassroots approach, starting from the cultural understandings and experiences of European citizens. It employs a comparative method involving people from diverse socio-economic groups in nine European countries – with different cultural policy models, social-structural features, socio-cultural value orientations, and media systems. It builds on a multi- and mixed-methods approach, including a large-scale survey, a smartphone study with experimental stimuli, several phases of online content data collection and analysis, qualitative interviews, and focus groups. Finally, it delves into how wide-ranging and interconnected sociocultural transformations such as migration, digitalisation, and social inequality impact people’s understanding of and engagement with culture as well as the meanings and values they attribute to culture. These unique features promise to offer a fresh and comprehensive perspective on cultural engagement in contemporary European societies.The collection showcases the multiple, often contradictory concepts and understandings of culture and its societal values among social groups within and across European societies. The findings call for a “social turn” in cultural policy that extends beyond traditional arts and culture to support diverse cultural expressions that may enhance social values, address complex social issues, and shift the focus from economic objectives to promoting civic solidarity, equity, inclusivity, tolerance, and shared community values
Introduction [to: Engagement with Culture in Transformative Times]
No full textThis introductory chapter explains the book’s and the INVENT project’s purpose: to generate fresh, research-driven insights into how Europeans understand, practice, perceive, and value culture amid major societal shifts—globalisation, European integration, migration, increased diversity, digitalisation, and growing inequality.It begins by locating the study within the sociological “cultural turn” and tracing how European cultural policy models have shifted from high culture and democratisation to the creative economy, sustainability, and health agendas. The chapter highlights critical blind spots: both scholarship and policy frequently ignore citizens’ cultural understandings, everyday practices, and perceptions, the ways these intersect with broader societal transformations, and how such lived experiences diverge across social groups and national and local contexts. Next, the chapter describes how the INVENT research team addressed these gaps by embracing a broad conceptualisation of culture and pairing a bottom-up approach with a comparative analysis. Nine European countries were chosen to capture diverse policy frameworks, value systems, media ecologies, degrees of globalisation, and inequality patterns. A mixed methods design—representative surveys, smartphone experience sampling, social media analysis, qualitative interviews, and sectoral focus groups—illuminates both the “doing” and “meaning making” of culture, yielding fine-grained evidence on how Europeans engage with and value culture amid intersecting societal transformationFinally, the chapter outlines the book’s core contributions: a bottom-up, inclusive conception of cultural values that centres citizens’ own understandings; a cross-national comparative perspective spanning diverse policy models and social contexts; and methodological innovation through mixed and digital methods. It closes by previewing the three parts of the volume—(I) practices and understandings, (II) perceptions and experiences, and (III) outcomes, affordances, and values—setting the stage for subsequent chapters.<br/
What drives people to engage in cultural activities?:Europeans' motivations for cultural participation
No full textThis chapter focuses on the individual motivations or gratifications sought that drive Europeans’ cultural participation and how these differ across various cultural activities and socio-demographic profiles. Whereas the so-called “uses and gratifications” of mediated and digital culture have been thoroughly studied and theorised by media scholars, the crucial role of motivation in other areas of cultural participation has received far less systematic attention. This chapter aims to contribute to a more comprehensive account of the links between specific motivations, types of cultural participation, socio-demographic profiles, and country contexts. Drawing on the INVENT survey, we first examine and compare the main motivations for Europeans’ engagement in a variety of cultural activities. Next, we explore if motivational drivers of participation in specific activities vary according to socio-demographic characteristics and geographical context. Our findings highlight the diversity of motivations that drive cultural participation and how these motivations vary across socio-demographic profiles. We also find considerable differences between countries in the prevalence of specific motivations
Globalization on YouTube
Full text linkThis research studies the international flows of music videos in (South-)East Asia and Western Europe, by analyzing national YouTube music video charts in 2013. This is the first empirical research that focusses on the role that YouTube plays in the exchange of international pop music. Quantitative content analysis was executed to collect data from YouTube.
The first aim of this research is to show to what extent internationalization can be perceived in YouTube music video charts. It shows the trends in the degree, direction and diversity of international music videos within the selected YouTube charts of our sample countries. The findings show that YouTube charts of most countries are very international, accept the charts of some Asian countries. In the European YouTube charts, most music videos are from the US. In (South-)East Asian YouTube charts, many music videos are also from the US, but quite surprisingly even more from South Korea. English is overall the most sung language next to the domestic language of artists. In addition, most South Korean artists sing in Korean, but use English phrases in their songs.
The second aim of this research is to show which determinants influence the inequality of music video flows between countries. There are many different determinants that can play a factor in this process. Country characteristics can be determinants. Therefore, the influence of centrality, population size, GDP, cultural proximity, geographical proximity and language tie were tested. Individual artists determinants can also influence the success of music videos in foreign YouTube charts. Therefore, the influence of performance language and TV talent show participation were also tested. These determinants were tested using multiple regression analysis. Only the influence of the determinants centrality, cultural proximity and geographical proximity were found in this analysis. Besides these determinants, YouTube has content agreements with major media companies. These agreements can also influence the composition of music video charts and therefore their level of internationalization of YouTube charts. The results give an indication that this could be the case.
The third aim of this research, is to compare our findings to the results of Verboord & Brandellero’s (2013) research. They studied the globalization of pop music single charts in Europe between 1960-2010 This comparison gave interesting insights. YouTube charts are slightly more international. The effect of geographical proximity is smaller in YouTube charts. The effects of some determinants, which were found by Verboord & Brandellero weren’t found for the YouTube charts
The Future of Canadian Climate Policy — with Marc Lee
No full textMarc Lee is a Senior Economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives\u27 BC Office. In addition to tracking federal and provincial budgets and economic trends, Marc has published on a range of topics from poverty and inequality to globalization and international trade to public services and regulation. Marc is the Co-Director of the Climate Justice Project, a research partnership with UBC\u27s School of Community and Regional Planning that examines the links between climate change policies and social justice.Resources:Climate Justice Project: www.policyalternatives.ca/projects/cli…tice-projectMarc Lee\u27s Posts on Policy Note: www.policynote.ca/author/marclee/Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: www.policyalternatives.ca/Marc\u27s Twitter: twitter.com/MarcLeeCCPA International Panel on Climate Change, 2021 report: www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1
sj-docx-1-hij-10.1177_19401612231187568 – Supplemental material for Institutional Trust and Media Use in Times of Cultural Backlash: A Cross-National Study in Nine European Countries
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-hij-10.1177_19401612231187568 for Institutional Trust and Media Use in Times of Cultural Backlash: A Cross-National Study in Nine European Countries by Marc Verboord, Susanne Janssen, Nete Nørgaard Kristensen and Franziska Marquart in The International Journal of Press/Politics</p
Climate Justice & Inequality: The Future of Canadian Climate Policy — with Marc Lee
No full textMarc Lee is a Senior Economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives\u27 BC Office. In addition to tracking federal and provincial budgets and economic trends, Marc has published on a range of topics from poverty and inequality to globalization and international trade to public services and regulation. Marc is the Co-Director of the Climate Justice Project, a research partnership with UBC\u27s School of Community and Regional Planning that examines the links between climate change policies and social justice.Resources: Climate Justice Project: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/projects/climate-justice-projectMarc Lee\u27s Posts on Policy Note: https://www.policynote.ca/author/marclee/Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/Marc\u27s Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarcLeeCCPA International Panel on Climate Change, 2021 report: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1
Capturing cultural practices in everyday life:Employing experience sampling methodology
No full textSociological studies of cultural participation often rely on cross-sectional survey data or interview data. While these methods have helped disclose social inequalities, they are less suitable for capturing everyday cultural activities and their social contexts or perceived outcomes. This chapter examines how researchers can use Experience Sampling Methodology (ESM) as a novel method to study cultural participation differently and more precisely than in most current studies. ESM is a type of diary survey that allows researchers to examine what people do, feel, and think during their daily lives. In this exploratory study, over 300 respondents received a short survey on their smartphones four times daily for a week. Each survey inquired about their cultural participation in the hours before they received the survey – yielding more accurate and detailed measures of cultural participation and perceived outcomes than conventional surveys. The chapter first reviews (a) where, (b) when, (c) with whom, and (d) what specific activities were reported across social groups (age, gender, education). It then analyses how respondents experienced various activities. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the benefits and drawbacks of ESM for measuring cultural participation
What drives people to engage in cultural activities?:Europeans’ motivations for cultural participation
Full text linkThis chapter focuses on the individual motivations or gratifications sought that drive Europeans’ cultural participation and how these differ across various cultural activities and socio-demographic profiles. Whereas the so-called “uses and gratifications” of mediated and digital culture have been thoroughly studied and theorised by media scholars, the crucial role of motivation in other areas of cultural participation has received far less systematic attention. This chapter aims to contribute to a more comprehensive account of the links between specific motivations, types of cultural participation, socio-demographic profiles, and country contexts. Drawing on the INVENT survey, we first examine and compare the main motivations for Europeans’ engagement in a variety of cultural activities. Next, we explore if motivational drivers of participation in specific activities vary according to socio-demographic characteristics and geographical context. Our findings highlight the diversity of motivations that drive cultural participation and how these motivations vary across socio-demographic profiles. We also find considerable differences between countries in the prevalence of specific motivations
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