Publications
The Challenges of Qualitative Interviewing
Finnish INVENT team member Riie Heikkilä and her colleague Anu Katainen recently published an article in The Sociological Review on the often challenging “counter-talk” in qualitative interviews on cultural practices. They identified three types of counter-talk: resisting the situation, resisting the topic, and resisting the interviewer – arguing that counter-talk should be given more importance as a key element of the qualitative
Article “What is Europe?”
The article “What is Europe? The meaning of Europe in different social contexts in Switzerland” has recently been published in Swiss Political Science Review by Swiss Invent team member Jörg Röss, Georg Datler and Julia Schroedter. They analyzed the meanings that persons associate with Europe for a sample of the population of Switzerland. From this analysis six meaning dimensions emerge,
Trust in authorities during the COVID-19 lockdown in four European countries
Marc Verboord from the Dutch INVENT team published an article together with Sara Grøn Perlstein in PLOS ONE on trust in political authorities in the first COVID-19 lockdown (see full Open Access version at https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/authors?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0253175 ). The article examines the population response to government containment strategies during initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in four high-trust Northern European countries–Denmark, Germany,
Article on Socio-Political Polarization of Media Usage in Finland
Semi Purhonen, Adrian Leguina and Riie Heikkilä published an article in the Nordicom journal (see full Open Access version at https://www.sciendo.com/article/10.2478/nor-2021-0029). The article uses nationally representative data from Finland from two longitudinal and comparable data sets from 2007 and 2018 and shows a stability in the social stratification of media use which organizes itself around the same axes (Internet use/non-use and legitimate media use/non-use) in both years. The article demonstrates that new
Croatia’s participation in Creative Europe (2014-2020)
On the occasion of marking the end of the Creative Europe programme (2014 – 2020), the Croatian Desk of Creative Europe issued the publication “CREATIVE EUROPE (2014 – 2020): CROATIAN EXPERIENCES”. The bilingual (Croatian and English) publication offers a basic analysis of Croatia’s participation in the Creative Europe Culture sub-programme, providing the following highlighted information: Between 2014 and 2020, 96 Croatian
Engaging in culture under pandemic restrictions
Discover Society published a blog written by the UK Team of INVENT, entitled Engaging in culture in under pandemic restrictions: Where do we find culture and how do we feel about it? The blog draws on the findings of the exploratory survey the INVENT team conducted over the Summer in nine European countries. You can read it here. IMAGE CREDIT:
EU cultural policy and audience perspectives
INVENT team members Marc Verboord (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Nete Nørgaard Kristenen (University of Copenhagen) published an article, titled EU cultural policy and audience perspectives: how cultural value orientations are related to media usage and country context, in the International Journal of Cultural Policy Research. The authors studied how people across Europe think about cultural value, including cultural heritage, and
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 870691