Ricerc@Sapienza

The growing usage of digital technologies is reshaping the way individuals interact with culture, increasing the volume, accessibility and diversity of cultural participation. Although the Internet and digital media make cultural participation easier and more direct, there is also evidence that digital technologies reproduce existing inequalities characteristic of offline cultural participation, which tends to vary considerably with people’s education, social position, geographic location and age cohort.

Considering a broad spectrum of cultural activities, this study aims to deepening European countries differences in Cultural Participation taking into account micro, meso and macro determinants. For this aim, we used the large dataset provided by the Special Eurobarometer survey n.399 collected in the European countries.