Cultural Production Research Articles

Mapping gender patterns in “dynamic cultural spaces”: the case of Beijing’s open-air antiques “ghost market” at Panjiayuan

Despite the growing recognition of the importance of street vendors and informal markets for urban life and the economy globally, research attention has tended to focus on essential products such as food or clothes and paid less attention to cultural products, such as antiques where potential gender, and other socio-demographic, differences in vending and buying behaviours may systematically differ. To explore these issues, this study employed spatial–temporal behaviour mapping (STBM) and field observations (n = 8587) at Beijing’s Panjiayuan antiques “ghost market” a term reflecting its previously illegal/underground and mobile nature. We monitored four representative sites within the market, four times a day for six consecutive days. The data included five categories of behaviour, four age groups, and two genders. Data were recorded and analysed using ArcGIS. Results showed that, unlike common marketplaces, the antique market is primarily frequented by male vendors and buyers, replicating patterns seen in ancient Chinese paintings of men being involved in the trading of “non-essentials”. Nonetheless, we found differing gender balances depending on the time and day of the week, different age groups, and spatial settings in different market areas. We summarise the nuanced relationships between the emerging gender spatio-temporal behaviour patterns and three key factors, spatial characteristics, physical activities and the social division of labour, in the Chinese context. The study reveals how the varied spatial–temporal patterns of a large antique “ghost market” raise long-established issues of equity and inclusivity and provide empirical insights that could inform decision-making and urban planning, such as better use of dynamic lighting provision to encourage a more gender-balanced experience.

Janzen, Rebecca. Unlawful Violence: Mexican Law and Cultural Production. Vanderbilt University Press, 2022. 242 pp.

Janzen, Rebecca. Unlawful Violence: Mexican Law and Cultural Production. Vanderbilt University Press, 2022. 242 pp.

Research on the Marketing Strategy of Hainan Tourism Cultural and Creative Products from the Perspective of Brand Culture

With the rapid development of tourism and the diversification of consumer demand, cultural and creative products, as an important part of the tourism market, and their marketing strategies are increasingly attracting attention. Based on the perspective of brand culture, this paper studies the marketing strategy of Hainan tourism cultural and creative products. Firstly, it analyzes the current situation and market environment of the tourism cultural and creative products in Hainan; secondly, the marketing strategy of cultural and creative products is discussed from the perspective of brand culture; finally, the specific marketing strategy suggestions and the future development trend are discussed.

Art&Design&Craft in the Two-dimensional World Culture

The article employs two-dimensional world cultural products as a case study to examine the nuanced relationship between art, crafts, and design within this realm. Given the vast array of cultural products within the two-dimensional world, the focus of analysis is narrowed down to in-game photography and figures. Initially, the article outlines the currently accepted definitions of art, crafts, and design. Subsequently, it delves into the diverse attitudes exhibited by various audience groups towards these categories. The primary conclusion drawn is that while the boundaries between the concepts of art, crafts, and design may be blurred, each possesses distinct characteristics and differences. Thus, whether considering specific products within the two-dimensional world culture or examining two-dimensional culture more broadly, it becomes apparent that, from a certain perspective, the three can be differentiated.

Design Method of Museum Cultural and Creative Products Based on Multi sensory Experience

To explore the design method of museum cultural and creative products based on multi sensory experience, improve product level and user experience, and provide new directions for the development of museum cultural and creative design. The method first introduces the cognitive principles and sensory expression methods of sensory experience, and then focuses on the study of three common multi sensory phenomena: multi sensory integration, synesthesia, and sensory compensation. It analyzes their application in the design of cultural and creative products, summarizes the transformation process of user generated multi sensory experience, and establishes a multi sensory experience cultural and creative product design process based on this. Conclusion: Product design with multi sensory experience can bring users a more comprehensive and profound experience, help promote the inheritance and development of museum culture, and improve the serious problem of homogenization in the cultural and creative industry.

The Value Logic of Digital Technology Empowering the Deep Integration of Culture-tourism in Huaian Section of Grand Canal

In response to the problems of weak identification of cultural and tourism products, insufficient driving force of the cultural and tourism industry to economic development, and low level of dissemination and innovation of culture in Huaian section of Grand Canal, it is proposed that value innovation is the internal logical path to promote cultural and tourism integration and achieve sustainable development of products, industries, and culture of cultural and tourism; The empower- ment of digital technology is an external logical path to promote the deep integration of cultural and tourism and achieve iteration and spiral development of products, industries, and cultural of cultural and tourism. It is revealed that the value logic of the deep integration of cultural and tourism and is used to guide the development of products and industries , the culture utilization of cultural and tourism in the Huaian section of Grand Canal. The aim is to make the cultural-tourism products fresh, the cultural-tourism industry revitalized, and the cultural-tourism spirit survival long-term.

Design Perspectives: The Value of Urban Greening as an Urban Cultural and Creative Products

Design Perspectives: The Value of Urban Greening as an Urban Cultural and Creative Products

Re-design Requirements Research for Intangible Cultural Heritage Products in the Tourism Industry: A Case Study of Mianzhu New Year Picture

In response to the challenges faced by Mianzhu New Year picture, a national-level intangible cultural heritage in China, in the transformation of tourism, including issues of homogenization, lack of cultural content, and limited innovation, this study aims to optimize the design of tourism derivative products of Mianzhu New Year picture. The goal is to avoid issues that may impact tourism consumption and cultural development. To achieve this, a method for evaluating the redesign requirements of Mianzhu New Year picture tourism products based on the KANO-AHP hybrid model is proposed, with the intention of providing guidance for the development of derivative products of intangible cultural heritage.Focusing on the "cultural creative products" in the redesign of Mianzhu New Year picture tourism products, the KANO model is applied. Based on tourism marketing demands, the study focuses on three main intentions: enhancing tourism consumption, cultural communication, and artistic innovation of Mianzhu New Year pictures tourism products. These are further subdivided into specific contents of artistry, functionality, technology, safety, and culture. A total of 30 requirement indicators are identified, and their KANO requirement attributes are determined. The study then constructs requirements indicators for cultural creative products of Mianzhu New Year picture tourism through statistical analysis. Subsequently, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is applied to determine the weights of the cultural creative product requirements indicators. By analyzing and organizing the comprehensive weights of the top 10 requirement indicators, an optimized solution for the redesign of Mianzhu New Year pictures tourism products is obtained.

Protection of Geographical Indications (GI) in Sri Lanka: A Critical Legal Analysis

Sri Lanka is renowned for its ownership of numerous esteemed Geographical Indications (GIs), a testament to its rich cultural heritage and diverse agricultural products. However, the proliferation of counterfeit indications and illicit practices poses a significant threat to the integrity and value of these GIs in the global marketplace. As the nation of origin, Sri Lanka bears a paramount responsibility to safeguard these GIs, both domestically and internationally, as mandated by the Intellectual Property Act and ratified treaties.Against this backdrop, this research seeks to conduct a comparative evaluation of Sri Lanka's Intellectual Property Law regime, specifically focusing on the adequacy of legal provisions governing geographical indications in protecting existing GIs. Employing a qualitative research methodology, this study draws upon a comprehensive analysis of primary and secondary legal resources.By juxtaposing the domestic legal framework with international standards and practices, this research endeavours to draw conclusions regarding the effectiveness of existing protection measures and proposes targeted reforms where necessary. The aim is to formulate tailored recommendations for enhancing Sri Lanka's GI regime through the worldwide exhaustive examination of geographical indication regimes.This research paper not only contributes to academic discourse but also serves as a practical guide for policymakers and stakeholders involved in the preservation and promotion of Sri Lanka's unique GIs. Given the urgency of addressing the challenges faced by GIs in the contemporary global trade landscape, this study underscores the importance of timely action and informed decision-making in ensuring the continued prosperity of Sri Lanka's geographical indications.

Communication Approaches to Contemporary Memory Infrastructure: Introducing Amending Our Pasts and Futures Special Issues

This essay introduces “Amending our Pasts and Future: Communication Approaches to Contemporary Memory Infrastructure” Special Issue. The essay begins with addressing the need to approach memory by identifying the infrastructure that produces it, especially investigating how the new media landscape enables and intertwines contemporary material and symbolic memory infrastructures. Following this rationale, the essay introduces the new readings by highlighting their approach and contribution. The articles included examine discourses on statues, media, popular culture, Black press, and digital productions, protests about Black history, race, indigenous people, women, and ethnic trauma in the country and around the world. The essay concludes with a reflection on memory scholarship and a call for methodological evaluation, awareness, and update to adapt to NLP and AI.

Impact of the propensity to cross-cultural adaptation on online viewers' attitudes toward ethnic minority group cultural streaming: An extension of the theory of planned behaviour

Although more and more ethnic minority group (EMG) users are willing to present cultural content on live streaming platforms and advertise cultural products, the influence of their cultural content is still weak compared to mainstream culture. To narrow the research gap, it is essential for the current study to analyse online viewers' intention to watch EMGs' cultural content. This paper extends the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) model based on the cross-cultural adaptation theory. It adds the propensity to cross-cultural adaptation factor and cross-cultural adaptation factor, aiming to clearly explain online viewers' psychological changes. The data analysis based on the partial least squares path modelling and variance-based structural equation modelling (PLS- SEM) supports that the propensity to cross-cultural adaptation positively affects online viewers' cross-cultural adaptation. Meanwhile, the cross-cultural adaptation will positively influence online viewers' attitudes towards EMG cultural streaming, motivate their watching intention, and drive their final behavioural responses. More findings are uncovered via the importance-performance map analysis (IPMA), and the cross-cultural adaptation factor has significantly high performance and importance for online viewers’ watching intention.

A Study of Hakka Image Emotion , Hakka Product Attitude and Online Purchase Psychological willingness

Hakka image is composed of pictures and words that are related to Hakka culture, which communicates with people via the Internet 24/7. The interconnection between Hakka culture and industry has developed products that represent Hakka culture employing Hakka image; hence, Hakka products continue to show the symbolic characteristics of Hakka culture. According to the Theory of Reasoned Action and Hakka imagery emotions, this study explores Internet young users’ Hakka product attitude and online purchase intention. The research object is a representative Hakka cultural and creative product in Taiwan. Data were collected from 176 respondents from social networking sites. A Structural Equation Model (SEM) analysis shows that the second-order model is better than the first-order model. The dimension of “Hakka retro” of Hakka image emotion significantly affected the Hakka product attitude; meanwhile, “Hakka retro” significantly affected the online purchase intention. The SEM model explains the variance in Hakka product attitude (62.9%), and online purchase intention (62.5%). Overall, the Hakka industry should keep optimizing the Hakka image of the website, move consumers' emotions through the Hakka images, and enhance the positive attitude toward Hakka products and online purchase intention. The conclusion of this research can be used as a reference for managers and theoretical researchers.

A Matter of Style: Community Building between Seduction and Indirect Communication

Diverging from studies that categorize influencers solely as advertising figures subject to interpretation within marketing frameworks, this research employs an extensive netnography to examine influencers through the lens of cultural production theory. It views them as creators and creative individuals who adeptly cultivate communities around themselves using communicative techniques akin to literary narration. On digital platforms, social connections are reshaped into a seductive game, unfolding on both aesthetic and communicative planes. This process yields influence indirectly, gradually reshaping the community imaginary, over time. Users become immersed in a realm of objects, each bearing the distinctive mark of the influencer who has imbued them with their unique style, “like that of the potter cradling a clay cup”. Influencers’ ability to invent and inhabit digital platforms effectively positions them as key figures in shaping the dynamics of these new environments.

The analysis of colour and pattern in Romanian folk dress: protecting past legacies in an uncertain future

ABSTRACT Dress may show the characteristics of an era, a country, a community or a person. As in other folk arts, clothing is one of the most vibrant documents of cultures. Since folk clothing, which is a cultural product, is directly related to people, it is an indicator of the people’s modes of living. The colours, patterns and motifs especially used in folk clothing provide important information on such matters. This article deals with the colours and patterns of the folk clothing in the regions within Romania. For this purpose, samples of folk clothing belonging to the regions considered as the most traditional are illustrated and the elements of folk clothing examined in terms of colour and pattern features. The article lists various colours and patterns and shows how their configurations serve as identifying markers for the various regional locations of their wearers.

The Influence of Graphic Design Elements in Museum Cultural and Creative Products on Consumer Satisfaction

The Influence of Graphic Design Elements in Museum Cultural and Creative Products on Consumer Satisfaction

An aesthetics of intranquillité : fear and anxiety in Le fil and L’intranquille

This article locates an aesthetics of intranquillité in contemporary queer francophone cultural production by examining the dynamic combination of fear and anxiety in Mehdi Ben Attia’s Franco-Tunisian film, Le fil (2010), and Joseph Kai’s Franco-Lebanese graphic novel, L’intranquille (2021). Here, I examine the spatiotemporal dynamics, or what I call the affective orientations, of intranquillité . I argue that this aesthetics gives rise to an anxious eroticism that is itself represented textually through a series of narrative tools found in these texts: first, the challenge to normative narration; second, the use of inertial or propulsive imagery; and third, either a melancholic tie to the past or an anxious futurity. These tools textually reproduce the “feeling” of fear and anxiety for the viewer of these works. In an attempt to quell intranquillité , the creative and generative act of drawing is introduced in both narratives, ultimately producing new affective configurations of queer belonging and desire.

Transing the Maghreb: permeable performances of queerness in Abdellah Taïa, Nina Bouraoui, and beyond

This essay explores how a trans theoretical lens can inform interpretations and performances of queer Maghrebi sexualities in various forms of cultural productions like the works of Moroccan author Abdellah Taïa, Algerian author Nina Bouraoui, as well as podcasts and music by Maghrebi artists. It draws from trans theorists to emphasize how a productive performativity resides in the intermediality, the in between of a transition (e.g. transnational) and thus queer transnational sexualities like those depicted in the works of Taïa and Bouraoui can be better understood as always existing at the intersection of the local and global, colonial and indigenous. As a result, by transing queer Maghrebi sexualities, we open new realities of Maghrebi performativity that are not solely conceived of through western ideologies of an itinerary towards a better existence, demonstrating how queerness and Arabness are inherently trans. The construction of queer Maghrebi sexuality within a “trans-”national critical lens offers multiple axes upon which its performance can exist, and its legacy exchanged. To execute this analysis, this essay first defines its trans theoretical approach and then applies it to selected works from Maghrebi authors Abdellah Taïa and Nina Bouraoui. It then expands its analysis away from literature to other forms of cultural productions to showcase the broad impact of a trans approach to queer Maghrebi sexuality.

The Government's Strategic Role in Marketing Songkok Recca as a Creative Tourism Industry in Bone Regency

Songkok Recca, a typical cultural product from Bone Regency, South Sulawesi, has great potential in the creative tourism industry. This product not only has historical and symbolic value for the Bugis tribe, but also acts as an important economic resource for local craftsmen, especially in Paccing Village, Mare District. Songkok Recca, resulting from creativity and specialized skills, offers significant economic opportunities for the local community. The government's role in the development and promotion of Songkok Recca is very crucial. The Bone Regency Government has been active in providing guidance and training to craftsmen, as well as promoting this product through various media. Effective public relations and publicity strategies have helped increase recognition and appreciation of Songkok Recca, both at national and international levels. The government is also responsible for maintaining relations with related parties to ensure the continuity and development of this product. Through continued support and a structured marketing strategy, Songkok Recca can continue to develop as a superior regional product that not only strengthens the cultural identity of the Bone community but also makes a significant contribution to the local economy and cultural preservation. This research highlights the importance of synergy between the government and craftsmen in optimizing the potential of Songkok Recca as a main attraction in the creative tourism industry in South Sulawesi.

Networks Cultivating Values: Insights from Five Culture-based Regeneration Projects in Italy

This contribution aims at improving the understanding of the conditions and dynamics that facilitate processes of culture-based urban regeneration via social innovation. It presents and discusses the outcomes of an in-depth investigation of five projects taking place in large cities in Italy dealing with the reuse and regeneration of urban spaces through creative and innovative practices. Research findings demonstrate the centrality of the network dimension in sustaining and shaping processes of urban regeneration through social innovation and cultural production. Networks are led by social entrepreneurs having a strong territorial focus that “cultivate” new values for the local community by reusing and mobilizing publicly owned vacant or abandoned material assets.

The uses of poetry

This article draws on evidence from a qualitative study of working-class readers in order to reflect on the ways in which readers can lay claim to, or can affirm a particular kind of meaningful relationship with, poetic texts. Drawing a lesson from the example of Bridget Fowler’s account of the reading of popular romances, it argues for the need to take seriously the question of the ‘uses’ of literary and cultural products. An account which construes the relationship between readers and literary texts only in terms of the accumulation of cultural capital within the context of a wider symbolic economy risks losing sight of the ways in which popular practices of using and sharing poems can be discordant with both the rationality of symbolic exchange and the wider rationalities which are characteristic of capitalism.