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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
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
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Populaire muziekjournalistiek in Nederland en de rol van selectie
Full text linkMuziekjournalistiek in de vorm van concertbesprekingen of cd-recensies is tegenwoordig te lezen in zowel de Nederlandse dagbladen als op cultuur-, muziek en nieuwswebsites. De online media worden een steeds belangrijker speler in het muziekjournalistieke veld. In deze masterthesis staat centraal hoe journalisten werkzaam voor zowel kranten als online media keuzes maken. Het keuzeproces kan van invloed zijn op het uiteindelijke succes van artiesten. Uit interviews met zeventien journalisten werkzaam in het populaire muziekcircuit komen vijf overkoepelende thema’s naar voren die het selectieproces beïnvloeden: de organisatie, persoonlijke smaak, PR-apparaat, beïnvloeding door andere media en omgevingsfactoren. Deze thema’s gelden voor zowel de online media als de Nederlandse dagbladen, maar er zijn enkele belangrijke verschillen te zien
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