In this study we work with a multi-arts organisation to assess the appropriateness of natural language processing methods for the analysis of audience behaviours and interests via Twitter. We investigate supervised and unsupervised topic modelling methods to investigate whether they can: i) capture the nuanced differences between art genres/forms; ii) characterise users according to their cultu...

Urban economists have put forward the idea that cities that are culturally interesting tend to attract “the creative class” and, as a result, end up being economically successful. Yet it is still unclear how economic and cultural dynamics mutually influence each other. By contrast, that has been extensively studied in the case of individuals. Over decades, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu...

People with similar conceptions of life or shared interests organize themselves in various ways into associations. This is also true of migrants who form organizations because of their common cultural, political, economic or social interests and values. Roughly one-fifth of the German population has a so-called migration background which means that they can point to their own experiences with m...

Moira G. Simpson is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences at the University of South Australia. She has written extensively on the subjects of museums, indigenous cultural politics and repatriation. Her publications include Making Representations: Museums in the Post-Colonial Era and Museums and Repatriation. Her current research interests relate to the care and protec...

This article explores the nature of calls for risk-based policy present in expert discourse from a cultural theory perspective. Semi-structured interviews with professionals engaged in the research and management of livestock disease control provide the data for a reading proposing that the real basis of policy relating to socio-technical hazards is deeply political and cannot be purified throu...

Social media are assumed here as a blending of technology and social interaction for the co-creation of value, as in social networks. We discuss that in such environments, it is possible to find people with common interests that potentially can promote discussions, teaching and learning from each other. However, the approaches to recommend people to interact with in the social network still do ...

Research shows that cultural interests contribute to subjective well-being, but results are not highly consistent. This study on the youth in Serbia (N = 453) is aimed at exploring: 1. factorial structure of favourite leisure activities, 2. their contribution along with socio-demographics, physical health, and engagement social networks, 3. whether how differ depending operationalization criter...