Publications
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
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
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.
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
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,
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
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
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
New research alert: What is cultural non-participation and has it changed significantly over the course of a decade?
It is a commonly shared view that “culture is good for you”. In cultural policy, there has long been concern about citizens that do not participate in any cultural activities, such as visiting museums or concerts. Cultural non-participation has often been treated as a problem – even though non-participation is actually very common. An explanation for the low rates of
Upcoming article on the relationship between cultural participation and political orientation
Finnish INVENT Team members Sara Sivonen and Semi Purhonen will be publishing an article called “Politics and cultural participation: The associations of party preference and conservativeness with high and popular cultural participation in Finland” in Sosiologia later this autumn (article in Finnish). The article examines the association between politics and cultural participation in contemporary Finland from the perspective of change
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 870691