Research updates

The Danish INVENT team will present the first country-specific results of the project’s data-scraping efforts at the 2021 NordMedia online conference in August of this year. The presentation on “#kultur – Mapping conversations about culture in the Danish Twittersphere” will focus on how Danish citizens use Twitter in relation to arts and culture. It also provides a methodological report highlighting

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Drawing on Eurobarometer data, Guiseppe Lamberti and Jordi López of the Spanish INVENT team compared the cultural participation of Europeans in 28 countries (EU 28) in 2007 with 2013 to analyze the effect of the economic crisis on the evolution of social inequalities in cultural participation. For both periods, the researchers considered to what extent people participated in a wide

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Fieldwork for the INVENT survey in Switzerland is halfway completed: Since its launch on April 15, more than 660 people have participated in the INVENT survey in Switzerland. This is more than half of the expected sample size covering the general Swiss resident population. Participants came from all three language regions of Switzerland (German, French, Italian) and completed the questionnaire

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On 15 April 2021, the first phase of INVENT’s field research has started according to plan. In the next few months, a comprehensive survey will be conducted among representative samples of the population in Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The survey explores how people aged 18 years to 80 years old across

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Dr Neta Yodovich of the UK team presented a paper at the 70th annual conference of the British Sociological Association. “Is it a cultural greeting now to begin with ‘can you hear me’?”: The use of digital platforms during the pandemic and what it means for our future“. The paper featured key findings of the exploratory survey that was held

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