European inventory of
societal values of culture

The Influence of Globalization and European Integration on Culture

Katz-Gerro, T.,  Yodovich, N. & G.B. David (2022). The Influence of Globalization and European Integration on Culture. INVENT report (25 pages).

Findings in this report represent work conducted midway through the project and derive from the efforts of the wider INVENT  nine-country  team. The authors describe some of the measures that will feed into work conducted on WP4 from various data collection efforts. These include a survey, a comparison with secondary data, and spotlights on data scraping, smartphone study, and interviews. First, for each of WP4’s objectives, they present relevant survey questions. Such measures were used in both descriptive and multivariate analysis that provided insights into perceptions and practices in a comparative perspective. Then, the researchers compared some of  INVENT’s findings with secondary data from Eurobarometer and Eurostat in order to track changes in cultural participation and European integration over time. They found, for instance, a decrease in cultural participation from Eurobarometer’s survey in 2007 and our survey in 2021. Alongside the survey and secondary data, they also included “spotlights” which review preliminary findings from other methods conducted in INVENT. The first is data scraping method, which is associated to  objective 1 by revealing online discussions related to processes of European integration. One of the foundings was that Twitter users in several European countries frequently discuss topics such as identity and boundaries. In the smartphone study spotlight authors focused on the Eurovision track, which tracked responses and perceptions regarding the contest in real time. They found, for example, that for Denmark and France, watching the competition made participants feel part of a European community, whereas British participants did not feel the same. Lastly, interview spotlight aligns with 
objectives 2 and 3, as it focuses on immigrants and the impact of moving to a different country on their cultural participation.