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on Cultural Economics |
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Issue of 2023‒12‒11
five papers chosen by Roberto Zanola, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale |
| By: | Dauermann, Angelika; Enneking, Ulrich |
| Abstract: | Aesthetic enjoyment and landscape beauty are increasingly recognized as significant attributes of cultural landscapes. Agriculture is an important integral part of the cultural landscape in many places. To date, however, there has been little research into the visual quality of agricultural landscapes - particularly of farm buildings. Consequently, this qualitative study focuses on local residents' emotional reactions to the visual impact of dairy barns as well as their subjective perceptions. The interviewees in the present study looked at various images of different dairy barn designs and dairy barns embedded in the landscape. The dairy barns shown were based on real-life dairy barns in the German agricultural region of Osnabrück in northwestern Germany. All 16 interviewees lived in the region at the time the study was conducted. The interviewees answered a questionnaire to reflect their perceptions and thoughts on the dairy barns. The evaluation shows that the quality of the landscape aesthetics of dairy farms is of importance to the interviewees. Being able to see cattle is one of the key factors contributing to a positive assessment of the landscape aesthetic quality of a dairy farm. Furthermore, this study shows that visual messages have a wide influence on the general perception of a farm. In fact, the analysis of the interviews conducted shows how numerous interpretations of how a farm is run can be derived from visual perception. |
| Keywords: | Dairy barn design, dairy farming, agricultural landscape, qualitative research |
| Date: | 2023 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:daredp:279909&r=cul |
| By: | Xiao, Yunpeng; Deng, Bufan; Chen, Siqi; Zhou, Kyrie Zhixuan; LC, RAY; Zhang, Luyao; Tong, Xin |
| Abstract: | Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are decentralized digital tokens to represent the unique ownership of items. Recently, NFTs have been gaining popularity and at the same time bringing up issues, such as scams, racism, and sexism. Decentralization, a key attribute of NFT, contributes to some of the issues that are easier to regulate under centralized schemes, which are intentionally left out of the NFT marketplace. In this work, we delved into this centralization-decentralization dilemma in the NFT space through mixed quantitative and qualitative methods. Centralization-decentralization dilemma is the dilemma caused by the conflict between the slogan of decentralization and the interests of stakeholders. We first analyzed over 30, 000 NFT-related tweets to obtain a high-level understanding of stakeholders' concerns in the NFT space. We then interviewed 15 NFT stakeholders (both creators and collectors) to obtain their in-depth insights into these concerns and potential solutions. Our findings identify concerning issues among users: financial scams, counterfeit NFTs, hacking, and unethical NFTs. We further reflected on the centralization-decentralization dilemma drawing upon the perspectives of the stakeholders in the interviews. Finally, we gave some inferences to solve the centralization-decentralization dilemma in the NFT market and thought about the future of NFT and decentralization. |
| Date: | 2023–11–13 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:osfxxx:evz4p&r=cul |
| By: | Gwenaëlle Oruezabala (LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - IMT Atlantique - IMT Atlantique - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - Nantes Univ - IAE Nantes - Nantes Université - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - Nantes Université - pôle Sociétés - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université - IUML - FR 3473 Institut universitaire Mer et Littoral - UM - Le Mans Université - UA - Université d'Angers - UBS - Université de Bretagne Sud - IFREMER - Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Nantes Université - pôle Sciences et technologie - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université - Nantes Univ - ECN - École Centrale de Nantes - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université); Cristina Olarte-Pascual (UR - Universidad de La Rioja); Eva Reinares-Lara (URJC - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos [Madrid]); Jorge Pelegrin-Borondo (UR - Universidad de La Rioja) |
| Abstract: | Interest in wine generates a general culture about the terroir and the traditions associated with it, which can be called oenoculturality. A quantitative study of a sample of 1126 potential buyers of new wine was conducted in the Spanish region of La Rioja. The cognitive-affective-normative (CAN) model used allowed for the emergence of three market segments: oenoculturalists, inter-oenoculturalists and a-oenoculturalists. These results help to clarify the importance of wine culture in the acceptance of a product innovation and contribute to the identification of new market segments, which allows marketing actions to be considered. |
| Abstract: | L'intérêt pour le vin génère une culture générale concernant le terroir et les traditions qui lui sont liées, ce qui peut être dénommé œno-culturalité. Une étude quantitative auprès d'un échantillon de 1126 acheteurs potentiels de nouveau vin a été menée dans la région espagnole de La Rioja. Le modèle cognitif-affectif-normatif (CAN) mobilisé permet de faire émerger trois segments de marché : les œno-culturalistes, les inter-œno-culturalistes et les a-œno-culturalistes. Ces résultats contribuent à clarifier l'importance de la culture du vin dans l'acceptation d'une innovation produit et contribuent à identifier de nouveaux segments de marché, ce qui permet d'envisager des actions marketing. |
| Keywords: | wine culture, oeno-culturality, CAN model, new markets, Rioja wine, culture du vin, oeno-culturalité, modèle CAN, nouveaux marchés, vin de Rioja |
| Date: | 2023 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04284352&r=cul |
| By: | Roula Nezi; Georgios Karyotis; Iakovos Makropoulos |
| Abstract: | How does division in society along cultural issues influence affective polarisation? This paper argues that affective polarisation expressed as a group identity on the basis of partisanship can enforce inter-group conflicts on cultural and austerity issues. In our study we employ data from a newly collected data in Greece. Our analysis suggests that cultural and austerity issues reinforced divides and inter-group conflicts even today. Our findings have implications for understanding how affective polarisation can be conditional on views towards cultural and economic issues. |
| Keywords: | Affective polarisation, austerity, cultural issues |
| Date: | 2023–11 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hel:greese:190&r=cul |
| By: | Humphreys, Sheila |
| Keywords: | Arts and Humanities, University of California, Berkeley, 150 Years of Women, Library |
| Date: | 2023–11–09 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cdl:cshedu:qt2083k53h&r=cul |