This research was conducted by Frances J. Griffith and three others at Bowling Green State University, USA
Instagram is a popular social networking site which has revolutionised the way that artists express themselves and connect with audiences. Although the platform is mainly about the sharing of images, each post can …
This research was conducted by Ole Marius Hylland at Telemark Research Institute, Norway
This paper charts the way that the cultural sector in Norway took a ‘digital turn’ during the first 100 days of the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in Norway. The research was a rapid response to the crisis – …
This research was conducted by Pablo De la Vega, Sara Suarez‐Fernández, David Boto‐García and Juan Prieto‐Rodríguez at Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Oviedo, Spain
This paper examined the difference between people who attended performing arts events in person and those who watched …
This research was conducted by Yves Evrard and Anne Krebs at HEC Paris and the Musée du Louvre, France.
This paper looks at the profile of visitors to the Louvre in Paris and compares them to those visiting the museum’s website. The research revealed that while the website and social …
This research was conducted by Indigo Holcombe-James at RMIT University, Australia
This paper sets out how a digital exclusion framework of ‘access, abilities, and affordability’ can be used to understand the needs and deficiencies of cultural institutions. The main areas of digital difficulty for organisations were access to devices like …
This research was conducted by Jari Salo, Mikko Lankinen and Matti Mäntymäki at the University of Oulu and University of Turku, Finland
By talking to music executives and music fans in Finland this study found five motives for using social media to connect with artists and other fans: accessing content, …
Online social media is known to be one of the most important ways that music fans communicate with each other to maintain, express and enhance their identity as fans. This paper looked at the posts to a …
This research was conducted by Joachim Vlieghe, Kris Rutten and Jaël Muls at Ghent University and the University of Brussels, Belgium
This paper looks at how readers participate in literary culture through social media. Researchers looked at the website and Facebook group of the Flemish reading initiative Iedereenleest.be (EverybodyReads.be), and …
This research as conducted by Alex Turrini, Isabella Soscia and Andrea Maulini at Bocconi University, Italy, SKEMA Business School, France and Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Italy
This paper looks at the profile of theatregoers who were classified as ‘tech savvy’ by the authors. This segment tended to be younger, more …
This research was conducted by Judith A. Chevalier and Dina Mayzlin at Yale University, USA
This paper looked into the effect of online customer reviews on the sales of books at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. They found that most of the reviews on both sites tended to be positive, …