Pub Date : 2025-01-18DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101982
Will Charles
Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork, in-depth interviews, and surveys, this study of a makerspace investigates social closure—processes by which groups maintain exclusive control over resources and opportunities—in an organization rejecting hierarchy and cultural conformity. This question is pertinent to organizations promoting collectivist and pluralist ideals. I found that despite espousing creativity and non-conformity, a culturally homogeneous in-group emerged in the organization. This highlights a tension between artistic and social critiques of capitalism, which are often espoused by collectivist organizations. The artistic critique challenges capitalism's instrumentalization of creativity, advocating for meaning and beauty in production. In contrast, the social critique targets inequalities and promotes inclusivity and justice. Members of the organization pursued the artistic critique through creative making but repressed a social critique. The organization's narrow focus on artistic critique led to a form of asceticism, limiting broader social impact. To counteract social closure and uphold collectivist ideals, organizations must actively prevent exclusive in-groups. Addressing economic disparities via alternative funding models and fostering mutual aid can mitigate unintentional hierarchies. Integrating artistic and social goals holistically by expanding the definition of creativity to include instrumental practices can bridge community divides.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-16DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101968
Morten Fischer Sivertsen
This study addresses the limitations of survey-based research in explaining patterns of cultural consumption in the social space. By utilizing digital trace data from Audience Insights on Danish Facebook users, this research employs social network analysis (SNA) to investigate online taste across cultural genres and social strata. To account for social structures and enhance the analysis, a multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) of a survey sample of Danish Facebook users was integrated into SNA. The findings indicate that neither the higher nor the lower strata can be classified as omnivores in terms of composition. However, contrary to many studies, the lower strata demonstrated a greater degree of omnivorousness in terms of volume than the higher strata. These findings challenge traditional understandings of cultural consumption across social strata and underscore the need to complement existing methodological approaches with new strategies that better capture the complexities of cultural engagement in the digital age.
{"title":"Taste on Facebook: Revisiting the omnivore–univore hypothesis using digital trace data","authors":"Morten Fischer Sivertsen","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101968","url":null,"abstract":"This study addresses the limitations of survey-based research in explaining patterns of cultural consumption in the social space. By utilizing digital trace data from Audience Insights on Danish Facebook users, this research employs social network analysis (SNA) to investigate online taste across cultural genres and social strata. To account for social structures and enhance the analysis, a multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) of a survey sample of Danish Facebook users was integrated into SNA. The findings indicate that neither the higher nor the lower strata can be classified as omnivores in terms of composition. However, contrary to many studies, the lower strata demonstrated a greater degree of omnivorousness in terms of volume than the higher strata. These findings challenge traditional understandings of cultural consumption across social strata and underscore the need to complement existing methodological approaches with new strategies that better capture the complexities of cultural engagement in the digital age.","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142989635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-11DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101970
Rens Wilderom, Alex van Venrooij
This paper investigates the interplay between fields, markets, and movements in the emergence and development of new cultural categories. While some scholars argue that the rise of new genres is driven by internal resource mobilization, others contend that external market and field environments can both constrain and enable their emergence and growth. Through a cross-national comparative study of electronic/dance music and its various genres from 1985 to 2005, we demonstrate that genre emergence and development are influenced by their embeddedness in different field environments: the environment of proximate genres, the mainstream music market and the transnational field level. The impact of these field environments on the emergence and development of dance genres, however, varies by country. Notably, markets and genre movements are more strongly coupled in the UK and the Netherlands compared to the US. In both European countries, the mainstream success of genres drives their development through a mechanism of differentiation, leading to the creation of new and distinct genres as a reaction against increased visibility in the mainstream music charts. These findings highlight multiple ways in which markets and genre movements can interact, enriching our understanding of how new cultural categories emerge.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-10DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101971
Miikka Pyykkönen, Christiaan De Beukelaer
Many artistic expressions call for cultural, social and political change. Though the policy environments in which they emerge remain predominantly wedded to a consumption-driven creative economy. In doing so, they tacitly endorse a methodologically nationalist perspective on artistic expression, trade in creative goods and services, and cultural identity. By using the United Nations resolution on the International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development 2021 as a case in point, we argue that the language of this document, which reflects the current hegemonic discourse of creative economy, misses its target when claiming to promote sustainability because it is (1) anthropocentric, (2) growth-focused and (3) methodologically nationalist. Through a discourse analysis of this particular UN resolution, we demonstrate the multiple and conflicting connections between culture and sustainability through the perspective of planetary well-being. The main target of our criticism is the anthropocentric nature of sustainability discourses, but also their unreserved promotion of perpetual economic growth. In response, we articulate the need for a profound cultural shift from anthropocentric worldviews, growth-oriented ideologies, and methodologically nationalist frameworks to enable environmentally engaged cultural policies and citizens.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-10DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101972
Manuel Cuadrado-García, Juan D. Montoro-Pons
Arts and cultural consumption have been shown to be determined by people´s sociodemographic background. Diversity is embedded in such a context and shapes individual choice. It includes a myriad of factors: gender, sexual orientation, functional diversity, ethnic or religious background. However, it has been unevenly analyzed in the literature. This paper brings these topics to the forefront by conducting a bibliometric analysis on the research intersecting arts and cultural consumption and diversity. In this regard, a database comprising 1,155 academic documents in the fields of business, economics, and management listed in WoS was reviewed following a systematic procedure. Main research traits as well as the intellectual roots and the evolution of this research area were identified. Potential topics, approaches and methods for future research are then accordingly proposed.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-08DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101967
Yongren Shi, Kevin Kiley, Freda B. Lynn
Socially constructed categories are central to sociological investigation, but their use in empirical research on culture is often limited to a role as explanatory variables in regression designs comparing differences in groups means. We argue that categories can and do structure cultural space on multiple dimensions simultaneously, and that the cohesiveness of culture within categories is under-explored in existing work. Drawing on insights from the “duality of persons and groups” and the “duality of persons and culture,” we develop the concept of Cultural Blau Space as a general tool for exploring cultural consensus. Cultural Blau Space is a multi-dimensional space defined by many measures of personal culture and individuals are positioned within this space based on the similarity of their cultural profiles. We then explore how social groups structure a cultural space defined by political and social attitudes in two ways: within-group homogeneity and cross-group fragmentation. We find that partisan identification and educational attainment play a larger role in structuring this cultural space than ascribed characteristics such as gender, with the former increasing in homogeneity and fragmentation in recent years.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-27DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101965
Nicolas Restrepo Ochoa, Turgut Keskintürk
Culture is often conceptualized as a landscape, where the peaks represent popular beliefs, institutions or practices, while the valleys represent those that receive infrequent attention. In this article, we build on this metaphor, and explore how individuals navigate these cultural landscapes. Using longitudinal data from the National Study of Youth and Religion, we follow participants' survey response trajectories across three cultural domains, each with particular topographical features. We show that movement across cultural landscapes is adequately captured by a gravitational model of change, which specifies transition probabilities among cultural positions as a function of the distance between them and how populated they are. Nonetheless, the kind of movement that such a gravitational model would predict varies widely depending on the initial topography of the landscape. Our work highlights that charting landscapes is not only useful cartography, but also an analytical tool that helps us understand the kind of cultural trajectories we should expect individuals to follow.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-27DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101964
Yagmur Karakaya, Penny Edgell
Critical Race Theory has become the latest signifier in the American culture wars, polarizing people across the political spectrum. In this paper, using the Virginia Governor's race as a case study, we ask how a political campaign helped transform Critical Race Theory from an academic theory to an emotionally charged political acronym – “CRT” – thus becoming a symbol evoking, crystalizing, and politicizing moral emotions. We demonstrate how transformative surprises occur in the unfolding performance of public culture: moments when obscure ideas or cultural objects migrate to the center of public discourse and media coverage. Drawing on performance theory, we show how Youngkin successfully “fused” his anti-CRT message with long-standing American cultural ideals to evoke powerful emotional responses. Specifically, Youngkin effectively portrayed his campaign as a grassroots movement of parents protecting children's innocence, the nuclear family, and democracy itself. Simultaneously, Youngkin characterized his opponent, Democrat Terry McAuliffe, as a self-interested career politician and CRT as a divisive, backward political ideology. By tracing these processes, this study provides novel insight into the moral turn in American discourse about race by demonstrating how White racial anxieties manifest in a moral panic about (white) children's endangered innocence. Centrally, we demonstrate the powerful, yet neglected, role of audience emotions in social performances.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-25DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101961
Júlia Perczel, Balazs Vedres
In our contemporary art field global institutional networks offer novel strategies for peripheral artists in their struggle for global recognition, bypassing the necessity of maximizing presence in the territorial core. We address the puzzle of how such novel artistic strategies bypassing core gatekeepers can succeed. In this article we analyze the way artists from Central-Eastern Europe strive for consecration via acquisition by the pinnacle museums – Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou and the MoMA – between 1990 and 2018. Our analysis is based on more than hundred thousand exhibition events of about 3500 artists, held at nearly ten thousand venues in 112 countries. We focus on network topology of co-exhibiting relations of venues and artists. We introduce two key concepts to understand success in the multiscalar global art field: geo-capital and the globalizer position. Geo-capital measures the territorial balance of a venue's topological neighbours, capturing a capacity to span boundaries, while the globalizer position marks those venues that can provide artists with global visibility against the territorial core-periphery spectrum on topological grounds. We show that a strategy built on venues in the globalizer position improves the likelihood of consecration more than any other factors. We contribute to prior research by showing the functioning of a relational form of territoriality, that relies on global networks, and provides a mechanism through which global institutional networks can function in relative vertical autonomy within the multiscalar global art field.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-25DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101947
Andreas Schmitz, Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg, Jonas Volle
This paper presents an iterative procedure for reconstructing a scientific field by relating two relational methods. The procedure involves using geometric data analysis and network analysis in several steps. Blocks from block model analysis are projected into a space constructed by MCA, considered as subspaces using CSA, and subsequently inspected with regard to their manifest interaction structures. The findings allow us to examine the overall structure of a scientific field vis-à-vis the relative autonomies and eigenstructures of its subspaces and the homology-heterology relations they show to each other and the main space, thus providing a more differentiated view of the interplay of social spaces and networks.
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