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From the creative city to the city of cultural rights. Analysing inequalities and diversity in the right to participate in urban cultural life. The case of Barcelona 从创意城市到文化权利之城。分析参与城市文化生活权利的不平等和多样性。巴塞罗那的案例

Q1 Social Sciences

City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2025-10-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100668

Artur Rubinat-i-Lacuesta , Roger Soler-i-Martí , Nicolás Barbieri Muttis

Recent empirical evidence within the framework of the creative city has reproduced a narrow view of cultural participation. To better understand diversity and new and more complex logics of inequalities, this paper proposes an alternative multidimensional framework: the right to participate in urban cultural life. Using data from the Survey of Cultural Rights of Barcelona (2022), we analyse evidence of not only cultural access, but also the dimensions of practice, community engagement and governance, including both legitimate and non-legitimate cultural activities. This study considers how relevant are individual socioeconomic and spatial factors in explaining inequalities and diversity in the right to participate in urban cultural life. We conclude firstly that, as previous research has shown, socioeconomic individual resources (such as education) play a significant role in explaining inequalities in levels of participation in legitimate culture. The impact of these factors is significantly reduced when community and governance dimensions, and above all, non-legitimate cultural activities are considered. Second, neighbourhood has its own role in explaining inequalities and diversity. Being from a well-off neighbourhood is more related to accessing legitimate culture but less related to non-legitimate cultural activity and other cultural rights dimensions.

在创意城市的框架内，最近的经验证据再现了文化参与的狭隘观点。为了更好地理解多样性和新的、更复杂的不平等逻辑，本文提出了另一个多维框架：参与城市文化生活的权利。利用巴塞罗那文化权利调查（2022年）的数据，我们不仅分析了文化获取的证据，还分析了实践、社区参与和治理的维度，包括合法和非合法的文化活动。本研究考虑了个人社会经济和空间因素在解释参与城市文化生活权利的不平等和多样性方面的相关性。我们首先得出的结论是，正如之前的研究表明的那样，社会经济个体资源（如教育）在解释合法文化参与水平的不平等方面发挥了重要作用。当考虑到社区和治理维度，尤其是非合法文化活动时，这些因素的影响大大减少。其次，邻里关系在解释不平等和多样性方面发挥着自己的作用。来自小康社区与获得合法文化的关系更大，而与非合法文化活动和其他文化权利维度的关系较小。

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Universities as innovation agents for the creative industries – An exploratory quantitative study from Wales 大学作为创意产业的创新代理人——一项来自威尔士的探索性定量研究

Q1 Social Sciences

City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2025-10-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100670

Komorowski Marlen , Fodor Máté Miklós

Universities are increasingly recognized as key actors in regional innovation ecosystems, yet their role as “innovation agents” for the creative industries remains underexplored. While previous scholarship highlights universities’ contributions through research, skills provision, and technology transfer, little empirical evidence exists on how they amplify the innovation capacity of creative firms. This article addresses this gap through an exploratory quantitative study of 385 firms in Wales, drawing on data from the Clwstwr programme (2019–2021), a university-led initiative. We develop an analytical framework focusing on four major innovation drivers - skills and knowledge, networking, training, and funding - and examine whether university engagement enhances their effect on firm innovativeness. Employing econometric modelling, we find that firms engaged with the university exhibit significantly stronger relationships between each driver and overall innovativeness than firms outside the university-programme. Notably, university engagement magnifies the marginal effects of networking, training, and funding on innovativeness, with funding showing particularly large gains. These results provide novel evidence that universities can act as effective innovation agents, going beyond traditional roles of knowledge creation to actively shape firm-level innovation processes in the creative industries. The findings have implications for firms, which can leverage university partnerships to strengthen innovation outcomes; for universities, which can expand their role in local creative economies; and for policymakers, who can design targeted support mechanisms to embed universities within regional innovation strategies. By situating the Welsh case within broader debates on creative clusters and university–industry collaboration, this study contributes to understanding how universities drive innovation in under-researched sectors such as the creative industries.

大学越来越被认为是区域创新生态系统中的关键角色，但它们作为创意产业“创新代理人”的作用仍未得到充分发掘。虽然以前的学术研究强调了大学在研究、技能提供和技术转让方面的贡献，但很少有实证证据表明大学如何增强创新型企业的创新能力。本文通过对威尔士385家公司进行探索性定量研究，利用大学主导的Clwstwr计划（2019-2021）的数据，解决了这一差距。我们开发了一个分析框架，重点关注四个主要的创新驱动因素——技能和知识、网络、培训和资金——并研究大学参与是否会增强它们对企业创新的影响。采用计量经济模型，我们发现与大学合作的企业在每个驱动因素与整体创新之间的关系明显强于非大学项目的企业。值得注意的是，大学参与放大了网络、培训和资助对创新的边际效应，其中资助显示出特别大的收益。这些结果提供了新的证据，表明大学可以作为有效的创新代理人，超越传统的知识创造角色，积极塑造创意产业中企业层面的创新过程。研究结果对企业具有启示意义，企业可以利用大学伙伴关系来加强创新成果；对大学来说，这可以扩大它们在当地创意经济中的作用；对于决策者来说，他们可以设计有针对性的支持机制，将大学纳入区域创新战略。通过将威尔士案例置于更广泛的关于创意集群和大学-产业合作的辩论中，本研究有助于理解大学如何在创意产业等研究不足的领域推动创新。

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Creative Informatics: the role of ‘the university’ in Edinburgh and South East Scotland's creative cluster 创意信息学：“大学”在爱丁堡和东南苏格兰创意集群中的作用

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City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2025-10-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100664

Vikki Jones, Inge Panneels, Frauke Zeller, Melissa Terras, Nicola Osborne

This positioning paper reflects on the idea of ‘the university’ as a creative industries intermediary, through a case study of the Creative Informatics programme. It asks where ‘the university’ fits within the context of the creative industries and creative economy, and its value in that ecosystem. Creative Informatics was a five-year R&D programme (2018–2024), part of the UK-wide Creative Industries Clusters Programme (CICP) funded by the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to encourage innovation in and through the creative industries. The programme was a partnership between two universities, The University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Napier University; creative industries support organisation Creative Edinburgh; and startup incubator Codebase. Creative Informatics leveraged and mediated university structures, while also attempting to position itself as embedded in the Edinburgh and South-East Scotland ‘Cluster’ through its networked relationships with non-academic partners. As well as funding creative industries activity, the programme included supporting activities designed to develop and maintain connections between practitioners and organisations, beyond the time-limited operation of the CICP. As such, this paper frames Creative Informatics as a temporary organisation and creative industries intermediary that operates both within and without the permanent construct of ‘the university’ and asks what happens next to the community of creative practitioners it has supported. In considering these intermediaries through the lens of a value constellation, this paper explores if and how the balance of power between cities and regions were challenged by or reproduced through the CICP.

这篇定位论文通过对创意信息学项目的案例研究，反映了“大学”作为创意产业中介的理念。它询问了“大学”在创意产业和创意经济的背景下的位置，以及它在这个生态系统中的价值。创意信息学是一个为期五年的研发计划（2018-2024），是由英国艺术与人文研究委员会（AHRC）资助的全英国创意产业集群计划（CICP）的一部分，旨在鼓励创意产业中的创新。该项目是爱丁堡大学和爱丁堡纳皮尔大学这两所大学的合作项目；创意产业支援机构creative Edinburgh；和创业孵化器Codebase。Creative Informatics利用和调解大学结构，同时也试图通过与非学术合作伙伴的网络关系，将自己定位为嵌入爱丁堡和苏格兰东南部的“集群”。除了资助创意产业活动外，该计划还包括支持旨在发展和维持业界人士与机构之间联系的活动，这些活动是在中心有限的运作时间之外进行的。因此，本文将创意信息学作为一个临时组织和创意产业中介，在“大学”的永久结构内外运作，并询问它所支持的创意从业者社区接下来会发生什么。在通过价值星座的视角来考虑这些中介时，本文探讨了城市和地区之间的权力平衡是否以及如何受到CICP的挑战或通过CICP再现。

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Social infrastructures of mobility: Relational encounters between foreign and local digital nomads in the Philippines 流动的社会基础设施：菲律宾外国和本地数字游民之间的关系遭遇

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City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2025-10-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100667

Cheryll Ruth Soriano , Jeremy Tintiangko , Joy Hannah Panaligan

Over the past decade, scholarship on digital nomadism and co-working spaces has grown substantially, with much of it focused on the socio-technical infrastructures that enable remote workers—especially from the Global North—to pursue mobility and leisure in the Global South. In the Philippines, this global trend intersects with local dynamics. While the state promotes policies to attract foreign digital nomads and builds a cultural economy around their presence, digital nomadism is also emerging as an appealing path for Filipino online freelancers. As one of the world’s largest providers of labor to cloudwork platforms, the Philippines offers a critical vantage point for understanding how digital nomadism is locally practiced and reimagined, and the dynamics of their social relations. This paper explores the social infrastructures -- both lifestyle and transactional -- that sustain and are shaped by the interactions between foreign and local digital nomads in the Philippines. It pays attention to the racialized and classed dynamics that structure these communities, revealing how global mobility and local precarity coexist in shared spaces. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with Filipino digital nomads, field observations in physical hubs across the country, and analysis of digital nomad content on social media, this study contributes to broader conversations on the socio-technical ecosystems underpinning digital labor.

在过去的十年里，关于数字游牧和共同工作空间的学术研究有了实质性的增长，其中大部分集中在社会技术基础设施上，这些基础设施使远程工作者——尤其是来自全球北方的工作者——能够在全球南方追求流动性和休闲。在菲律宾，这种全球趋势与当地动态相互交织。当政府推行政策吸引外国数字游民，并围绕他们的存在建立文化经济时，数字游民也逐渐成为菲律宾在线自由职业者的吸引力之路。作为世界上最大的云工作平台劳动力提供者之一，菲律宾为了解数字游牧主义在当地的实践和重新想象以及他们的社会关系的动态提供了一个关键的有利位置。本文探讨了菲律宾外国和当地数字游牧民之间的互动所维持和塑造的社会基础设施——生活方式和交易方式。它关注构成这些社区的种族化和阶级化动态，揭示了全球流动性和地方不稳定性如何在共享空间中共存。通过对菲律宾数字游牧民的民族志采访、对全国各地物理中心的实地观察以及对社交媒体上数字游牧民内容的分析，本研究有助于就支撑数字劳动的社会技术生态系统进行更广泛的对话。

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Social infrastructure in diverse and unequal cities: Examining Civic Management facilities in Barcelona 不同和不平等城市的社会基础设施：考察巴塞罗那的市政管理设施

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City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2025-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100666

Marina Pera

This article offers a nuanced exploration of the notion of social infrastructure and its capacity to foster encounters and strengthen social ties in urban contexts. Focusing on Civic Management Facilities in Barcelona—municipally owned and funded spaces managed by local non-profit associations that offer cultural, youth, and leisure activities accessible to all residents—this study examines their potential as central neighbourhood hubs. It addresses the gap in understanding how these facilities enable spaces of encounter in contexts characterised by social fragmentation, inequality, and diversity. Employing a mixed-methods case study approach, the findings reveal how social inequalities and power dynamics shape the use of Civic Management Facilities, often resulting in the underrepresentation of neighbourhood diversity. The study underscores the importance of agency in enhancing inclusive participation by vulnerable groups within social infrastructures. Facility managers, through sustained efforts, implement mechanisms to promote user diversity and cultivate public familiarity—understood as the recognition of the facility and unfamiliar individuals as integral parts of the community. By analysing the relational dimension of social infrastructure, this research provides a deeper understanding of how these spaces can promote encounters and inclusion in urban settings marked by inequality and socio-cultural diversity.

本文对社会基础设施的概念及其在城市环境中促进相遇和加强社会联系的能力进行了细致入微的探索。关注巴塞罗那的市政管理设施——由当地非营利协会管理的市政拥有和资助的空间，为所有居民提供文化、青年和休闲活动——本研究考察了它们作为中心社区枢纽的潜力。它解决了在理解这些设施如何在以社会分裂、不平等和多样性为特征的背景下实现相遇空间的差距。采用混合方法的案例研究方法，研究结果揭示了社会不平等和权力动态如何影响公民管理设施的使用，往往导致社区多样性的代表性不足。该研究强调了机构在加强弱势群体在社会基础设施中的包容性参与方面的重要性。设施管理人员通过持续的努力，实施促进用户多样性和培养公众熟悉度的机制，即承认设施和不熟悉的个人是社区不可分割的一部分。通过分析社会基础设施的关系维度，本研究更深入地了解了这些空间如何在以不平等和社会文化多样性为特征的城市环境中促进相遇和包容。

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Transitioning from STEM to STEAM engagement mechanisms: a Yorkshire-based creative industry collaborative ecosystem approach for fashion and textiles 从STEM到STEAM参与机制的过渡：基于约克郡的时尚和纺织品创意产业协作生态系统方法

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City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2025-09-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100665

Susan Rainton , Kevin Almond

This paper adopts a reflective practice methodology, outlining how the Future Fashion Factory award stimulated sectoral activity, facilitating innovative collaborations and delivering regional impact. FFF built on decades of academic collaboration and long-standing relationships with both industry and local/regional government, it brought regional initiatives together to enable new activity and raise the profile of existing collaborations. In this context the University of Leeds, along with HEI partners, acted as a broker for innovation connectivity and change. It contrasts the Future Fashion Factory ecosystem with previous Yorkshire-based cluster programmes which had a STEM-based foundation for their interventions, reflecting differences in funding mechanisms and outcome monitoring. Fashion and textiles are a significant regional economic contributor, value chains are complex, integrating creativity with materials and advanced manufacturing requiring the delivery of STEAM-based interventions. Mills in the Yorkshire's ‘textile heartland’ are globally recognised, some exporting c.90 % of their total production. In January 2020 Future Fashion Factory supported the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program (MIT REAP) visit, facilitating academic connectivity with Leeds City Council and a visit to AW Hainsworth & Sons Ltd; one of many collaborative initiatives. Over five-years Future Fashion Factory has worked extensively with regional and national bodies to maximise learning, impact and future opportunities. Since October 2018 it has developed and trialled several iterations of an industry-led Responsive R&D process. Focused on regional cluster support Future Fashion Factory recognised fashion and textiles as a national/international collection of complex, interlocking eco-systems. Future Fashion Factory network membership focused on regional connectivity but with UK-wide industrial participation; project awards always ensured direct cluster impact. Learning developed from this industry-led approach led to wide-ranging engagement activity and triggered c.450 innovation ideas and c.£47m co-investment.

本文采用了一种反思的实践方法，概述了未来时尚工厂奖如何刺激部门活动，促进创新合作并产生区域影响。FFF建立在数十年的学术合作以及与行业和地方/地区政府的长期合作关系的基础上，它将区域倡议整合在一起，以实现新的活动并提高现有合作的知名度。在这种情况下，利兹大学与HEI合作伙伴一起充当了创新、连接和变革的中间人。它将未来时装工厂生态系统与以前基于约克郡的集群计划进行了对比，这些计划的干预措施基于stem，反映了筹资机制和结果监测的差异。时尚和纺织品是一个重要的区域经济贡献者，价值链是复杂的，将创造力与材料和先进制造结合起来，需要提供基于steam的干预措施。位于约克郡“纺织中心”的工厂是全球公认的，其中一些出口占其总产量的90%。2020年1月，Future Fashion Factory支持麻省理工学院区域创业加速计划（MIT REAP）访问，促进了与利兹市议会的学术联系，并访问了AW Hainsworth & & Sons Ltd .；许多协作计划之一。五年来，未来时尚工厂与地区和国家机构广泛合作，最大限度地提高学习、影响和未来机会。自2018年10月以来，它已经开发并试用了几次行业领先的响应式研发流程。未来时尚工厂专注于区域集群支持，将时尚和纺织品视为一个复杂的、环环相扣的生态系统的国家/国际集合。未来时装工厂网络成员关注区域连通性，但与全英国的工业参与；项目奖励总是确保直接影响集群。从这种以行业为主导的方法中获得的经验，导致了广泛的参与活动，引发了450个创新想法和4700万英镑的共同投资。

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Rebels without a pause (but with a cause): Exploring self-governance and engaged behavior in hip-hop and alternative performing arts in Northern Europe 反叛者没有停顿（但有一个原因）：探索自我管理和参与行为在嘻哈和另类表演艺术在北欧

Q1 Social Sciences

City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100655

Emilie Schei , Valeria Morea

This research examines how community-based artistic organizations navigate social and political tensions in urban settings, bridging hip-hop studies to political economy studies on self-governance. Artists and cultural organizations engage with these tensions through political protest, fostering public participation, and representing marginalized groups. For genres like hip-hop, social and political tensions are inherent, making it particularly interesting to study their institutionalization. A multiple case study was conducted on four organizations: Hiphophuis, WORM, Rapolitics, and Soul Sessions Oslo, based in the Netherlands, Denmark, and Norway. These organizations use alternative performing arts to engage with social and political issues through self-governance. Data from 13 semi-structured interviews with key individuals provided in-depth insights, analyzed thematically to reveal two themes: "Social and Political Engagement Through Self-Governance: 'By Us, For Us'” and "Creating Space for a Socially and Politically Engaged Community". The findings highlight that these organizations are “rebels without a pause but with a cause”: self-governance and engaged behavior enable alternative performing arts organizations to interact with diverse marginalized groups through cultural expressions often overlooked by institutionalized cultural entities. This community-based approach also facilitates engagement with local communities on broader issues.

本研究考察了以社区为基础的艺术组织如何在城市环境中应对社会和政治紧张局势，将嘻哈研究与自治的政治经济学研究联系起来。艺术家和文化组织通过政治抗议、促进公众参与和代表边缘化群体来应对这些紧张局势。对于嘻哈这样的流派来说，社会和政治紧张是固有的，这使得研究它们的制度化变得特别有趣。对四个组织进行了多案例研究：Hiphophuis、WORM、Rapolitics和Soul Sessions Oslo，它们分别位于荷兰、丹麦和挪威。这些组织利用另类表演艺术通过自我管理来参与社会和政治问题。来自13个对关键人物的半结构化访谈的数据提供了深入的见解，并按主题进行了分析，揭示了两个主题：“通过自治进行社会和政治参与：‘靠我们，为我们’”和“为社会和政治参与社区创造空间”。研究结果强调，这些组织是“没有停顿但有原因的反叛”：自我管理和参与行为使另类表演艺术组织能够通过文化表达与各种边缘化群体互动，而这些文化表达往往被制度化的文化实体所忽视。这种以社区为基础的方法还有助于与当地社区就更广泛的问题进行接触。

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On and beyond the Creative City: performative narratives, policy translation, and frontiers of ‘splashing’ acts 创意城市内外：表演叙事、政策翻译和“泼水”行为的前沿

Q1 Social Sciences

City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2025-08-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100654

Thuy Tran

The Creative City often appears in the existing literature as a policy narrative that travels widely across borders. Scholars have long debated whether this travel resulted in a homogenisation of urban cultural policies and whether the narrative still had viability for the future. The term ‘narrative’, however, has often been taken for granted. This article thus explores the implications of thinking about the Creative City as a narrative, particularly a ‘travelling narrative’. Conceptually, it builds on two major frameworks. The first is a processual approach to narration as a fundamental act of organising reality. It emphasises unification or the organisation of different layers or elements into a coherent narrative. The second is a performative approach to translation as acts of re-narration. It highlights multiplication or how a policy narrative can be translated into multi-directional, even competing, policy acts across contexts. Empirically, the article examines the narrative form and accomplishment of the Creative City as it was taken up in Vietnam through the designation of Hanoi as a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN). The analysis shows both possibilities and limitations of ‘splashing’ acts that sought to engage with the narrative in ways that could move beyond the frequently criticised power structures that set the travelling narrative in motion.

在现有的文献中，创意城市经常作为一种政策叙事出现，广泛地跨越国界。学者们长期以来一直在争论这种旅行是否导致了城市文化政策的同质化，以及这种叙事是否仍然具有未来的可行性。然而，“叙述”这个词常常被认为是理所当然的。因此，本文探讨了将创意城市视为一种叙事，特别是“旅行叙事”的含义。从概念上讲，它建立在两个主要框架之上。第一种是将叙事作为组织现实的基本行为的过程性方法。它强调不同层次或元素的统一或组织成一个连贯的叙述。二是将翻译作为一种重新叙述的行为。它强调了多样性，即政策叙述如何在不同背景下转化为多向的、甚至是相互竞争的政策行为。本文从经验上考察了河内被指定为联合国教科文组织创意城市网络（UCCN）成员后，越南创意城市的叙事形式和成就。分析显示了“泼水”行为的可能性和局限性，这些行为试图以一种可以超越经常受到批评的权力结构的方式参与叙事，这种权力结构使旅行叙事运动起来。

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XR stories as innovation and cultural intermediary for the creative industries XR故事作为创意产业的创新和文化中介

Q1 Social Sciences

City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100653

Nina Willment , Jon Swords , Damian Murphy

This paper extends scholarship on innovation intermediation within the creative industries, through case study analysis of XR Stories. XR Stories is a Yorkshire and the Humber based Creative Industries Cluster Partnerships (CICP) programme, focused on providing access to expertise, infrastructure and facilities to creatives working in extended reality. Through its exploration of the different ways in which R&D was facilitated, the paper positions XR Stories as an important cultural and innovation intermediary in delivering the aims of the CICP. It does this through demonstrating the varied examples of cultural and innovation intermediation which XR Stories undertook. The paper also draws upon Foucault's notion of the dispositif, adopting the term ‘CICP dispositif’ to acknowledge the wider context of R&D intermediation within which XR Stories operated. It explores how XR Stories's intermediation work was shaped by the CICP dispositif, including how it is constrained by CICP aims, but also actively developed new forms of activities outside of the CICP limitations.

本文通过对XR故事的案例分析，拓展了对创意产业创新中介的研究。XR Stories是基于约克郡和亨伯的创意产业集群合作伙伴关系（CICP）计划，专注于为在扩展现实中工作的创意人员提供专业知识、基础设施和设施。通过探索促进研发的不同方式，本文将XR故事定位为实现CICP目标的重要文化和创新中介。它通过展示XR故事所承担的各种文化和创新中介的例子来做到这一点。本文还借鉴了福柯的处置概念，采用“CICP处置”一词来承认XR故事运作的更广泛的研发中介背景。它探讨了XR Stories的中介工作是如何受到CICP配置的影响的，包括它是如何受到CICP目标的约束的，但也积极地在CICP限制之外开发新的活动形式。

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Exploring beyond the surface: Geofenced storytelling in Isfahan's tourism experience 探索表面之外：伊斯法罕旅游体验中的地理围栏故事

Q1 Social Sciences

City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2025-08-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100652

Zohreh Korani , Manouchehr Jahanian , Jalaleddin Aghazadeh Heris

Geofenced storytelling integrates location-based services with cultural tourism, offering interactive experiences that enhance visitor engagement. This study examines its application in Isfahan, Iran, a city known for its rich heritage and architecture. While mainstream tourism highlights famous landmarks, it often neglects artisanal workshops, historic neighborhoods, and everyday traditions. This research explores how geofenced storytelling shapes visitor movement, cultural engagement, and tourism experiences. Using a mixed-methods approach, the study combines ethnographic fieldwork with quantitative analysis of user interactions. Findings show that tourists engaging with geofenced narratives are 60 % more likely to visit lesser-known cultural sites, fostering decentralized and participatory tourism. Visitors emphasize the role of immersive storytelling in strengthening their sense of place. However, challenges include geolocation accuracy, content curation, and balancing local representation with visitor expectations. This study situates geofenced storytelling within broader debates on digital placemaking, participatory tourism, and sustainable heritage management. While digital tools can enhance cultural interpretation and diversify tourism experiences, their effectiveness depends on inclusive content, local collaboration, and integration into tourism policies. The findings provide valuable insights for researchers, tourism professionals, and policymakers seeking to leverage digital storytelling for community-driven, responsible cultural tourism.

地理围栏故事将基于位置的服务与文化旅游相结合，提供互动体验，提高游客参与度。这项研究考察了它在伊朗伊斯法罕的应用，这个城市以其丰富的遗产和建筑而闻名。虽然主流旅游以著名的地标为重点，但它往往忽视了手工作坊、历史街区和日常传统。本研究探讨了地理围栏叙事如何影响游客运动、文化参与和旅游体验。该研究采用混合方法，将人种学田野调查与用户交互的定量分析相结合。研究结果表明，参与地理围栏叙事的游客有60%的可能性会去参观不太知名的文化遗址，从而促进分散式和参与式旅游。参观者强调沉浸式的故事叙述在加强他们的地方感方面的作用。然而，挑战包括地理定位的准确性、内容管理以及平衡本地表现与访问者期望。这项研究将地理围栏叙事置于数字场所建设、参与式旅游和可持续遗产管理等更广泛的讨论中。虽然数字工具可以增强文化解读并使旅游体验多样化，但其有效性取决于包容性内容、地方合作以及与旅游政策的整合。研究结果为研究人员、旅游专业人士和政策制定者提供了宝贵的见解，这些研究人员正在寻求利用数字叙事来实现社区驱动的、负责任的文化旅游。

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