Publications

27
Jan

New research alert: Trust repertoires and the reception of institutional responses to the COVID-19 crisis in Europe

INVENT member Marc Verboord from the Dutch INVENT team published a new article in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology on the role of institutional trust in current European societies. Based on a secondary data analysis of Eurobarometer data (response rate 39.6%), it maps institutional trust repertoires and analyzes their consequences for a crisis that disturbed public life immensely in

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22
Nov

Scroll through INVENT’s major outputs: Introducing the interactive Output Guide

INVENT is happy to introduce: the Output Guide! 📖 So, what is this new tool, and how does it work? The INVENT Output Guide is the guide where you can view all of INVENT’s major outputs at a glance. Well, maybe not one glance, but rather a scroll! 😄 As you scroll deeper into the ocean backdrop past INVENT’s emblematic

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21
Nov

New Research Alert: Tolerants versus traditionalists: making sense of online conversations on the new Finnish flagship library Oodi

INVENT members Riie Heikkilä and Ossi Sirkka from the Finnish team have published a new article in the International Journal of Cultural Policy. The article builds on data scraping research conducted by INVENT and its abstract reads as follows: Public libraries play a unique role in preserving, maintaining, and distributing cultural capital freely. Currently, public libraries are said to be undergoing

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13
Nov

New Research Alert: Definitely (not) belonging to culture: Europeans’ evaluations of the contents and limits of culture

INVENT members Semi Purhonen (FI), Marc Verboord (NL), Ossi Sirkka (FI), Nete Nørgaard Kristensen (DK), and Susanne Janssen (NL) have published a new article in Poetics Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts. The article builds on survey research conducted by INVENT and its abstract reads as follows: Despite the long history of debating its meaning and its current unprecedented ubiquity both in

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13
Sep

The INVENT Policy Brief 3 is available now! Read our recommendations for policy creation related to culture and digitalization  

We are pleased to announce that the third INVENT Policy Brief has become available for download on our website.Where previously Policy Brief 1 (2021) looked at cultural offerings, wellbeing and the cultural value orientations of Europeans, and Policy Brief 2 (2023) centered on culture’s contribution to health and wellbeing; Policy Brief 3 (2023) places its focus on Digitalization and Culture.

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7
Sep

The INVENT Policy Brief 2 is available now! Read our recommendations for policy creation related to culture & wellbeing

We are pleased to announce that the second INVENT Policy Brief has become available for download on our website. Following Policy Brief 1 (2021) which briefly touched on topics of satisfaction with cultural offerings and Covid-19 in relation to wellbeing, Policy Brief 2 adopts a narrower focus and is titled Culture’s contribution to health and wellbeing. Now drawing on a

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2
Aug

New research alert: Institutional Trust and Media Use in Times of Cultural Backlash

Discover the latest academic research article titled “Institutional Trust and Media Use in Times of Cultural Backlash: A Cross-National Study in Nine European Countries” by INVENT team members Marc Verboord, Susanne Janssen, Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, and Franziska Marquart. The paper builds on the INVENT survey research, exploring the connections between “cultural backlash” theory, news consumption, and trust in politics, media,

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6
Jun

New research Alert – Cosmopolitanism in contemporary European societies: mapping and comparing different types of openness across Europe

INVENT members Tally Katz-Gerro, Neta Yodovich (UK team), Susanne Janssen, Marc Verboord (Netherlands team), and Joan Llonch-Andreu (Spanish team) have published a new article in the journal of Contemporary European Studies. The article is open access and builds on the survey research conducted by INVENT. The abstract reads as follows: Cosmopolitanism, which is often defined as openness to other cultures

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31
Jan

Advocating for Culture in Turbulent Times: A report exploring cultural petitions

INVENT’s data scraping team has recently completed its second annual report “Advocating for culture in turbulent times”. Following phase I, which explored the various uses of the word “culture on the Twittersphere, our team decided to delve deeper for phase II. For phase II, we took a closer look at the question “What do people talk about when they talk

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13
Sep

Mapping the multiplicity of cultural understanding: INVENT brings out a new report exploring the meanings Europeans ascribe to culture

INVENT has brought out a new report that comprises a combination of data and analyses capturing an answer to the question: What does culture mean to Europeans?To map out the multiplicity of understandings of culture within and across Europe, the report opens with a brief discussion of the diverse conceptions of culture, the current “cultural abundance” and how the manifold

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