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Project

Knowledge center for culture and media participation
Code
174S3416W
Duration
01 January 2016 → 31 December 2022
Funding
Regional and community funding: various
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Cultural participation
    • Media and communication policy
    • Cultural media
    • Digital media
    • Cultural sociology
    • Sociology of arts
    • Arts and cultural policy
    • Sociology of leisure and tourism
    • Sociology of sport and physical activity
    • Voluntary associations, participation and civil society
Keywords
media participation cultural sociology cultural participation cultural policy
 
Project description

The Knowledge Center Culture and Media Participation is responsible for the further development of policy-relevant research focusing on culture and media participation for the period 2016-2020. In addition, the knowledge center prepares and coordinates a new participation survey.

The Culture and Media Participation Knowledge Center is a consortium of three scientific partners:

- Ghent University (Department of Sociology - CuDOS)

- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Department of Sociology - TOR)

- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Department of Communication Sciences - SMIT)

The research activities of the Knowledge Center are clustered into 5 research domains:

- Participation survey (all research teams, coordination and methodology: UGent-Sociology)

- Arts and heritage (education, experience and participation) (UGent-Sociology)

- Socio-cultural work and disadvantaged groups (VUB-TOR)

- Local cultural policy (VUB-TOR)

- Media and digital participation (VUB-SMI