By Sabrina Pedrini and Pier Luigi Sacco The creative industries have been regarded, for many years, as the soul of urban development. Among these, the music industry is particularly vibrant…
By Meg Elkins and Tim R.L. Fry The exchange for money between street performers and audiences is a changing landscape. Using unique data from an online platform The Busking Project…
By Victoria Ateca-Amestoy and Arantza Gorostiaga Cultural participation can engage in cultural heritage beyond visits to includes donating their money and their time to cultural heritage organisations. The participant’s philanthropic…
By Chiara Dalle Nogare and Monika Murzyn-Kupisz The recent narrative on museums as catalysts of innovation considers their relations with other cultural and creative industries to be very important. To…
By Caterina Mauri and Alexander Wolf Women and men in couples enjoy shared leisure activities. When their preferences are not aligned, they implicitly (or explicitly) bargain over their arts consumption….
By Massimo Finocchiaro Castro, Isidoro Mazza and Domenica Romeo To what extent do cultural goods contribute to increase society’s level of cultural capital? Greater satisfaction for cultural goods consumption and…
By Enrico Bertacchini, Alessandra Venturini and Roberto Zotti Migration has become in the last decades one of the most overarching phenomena at the global level. Much of the academic and…
By Emanuela Macrì, Valeria Morea and Michele Trimarchi The recent urban experience reveals the growing importance of commons as a complex and often conflictual phenomenon where shared cultural practices are…
By Wojciech Hardy On 11 April 2015, episodes of the hit show Game of Thrones were leaked to the web. The leak constituted a rare event whereas a massively popular…
By Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello, Silvia Cerisola and Elisa Panzera The role of Cultural Heritage in local development has been extensively recognized. In this respect, we suggest a conceptual framework…
By Carmen Camarero, Maria José Garrido, and Eva Vicente In the current health and economic crisis triggered by Covid-19, the future of museums is facing a major financial challenge, a…
By Roberto Cellini, Tiziana Cuccia and Domenico Lisi Museums have experienced great changes over the past years. The weight attributed to traditional functions (collection, conservation, research and exhibition), and the…
By Francesco De Masi and Donatella Porrini Given the threat of natural disasters to Cultural Heritage, this paper aims to analyze the diffusion of insurance contracts among Italian Cathedrals. As…
By Ellen Loots and Rūta Skujiņa Work in the cultural industry has been labelled ‘affective labour’: many workers experience a strong affective attachment to arts and culture, originating and resulting…
By Anna Kukla‑Gryz, Joanna Tyrowicz, Michał Krawczyk Digital piracy is an interesting case of an extremely common activity with a rather shady ethical and legal status. One way of understanding this paradox is…
By Nora Elena Espinal-Monsalve, Andrey David Ramos-Ramírez y Luz Yadira Gómez-Hernández The relationship between cultural reproduction and cultural consumption can be framed from the theory of social reproduction of Bourdieu…