Digital Technologies in the Cultural Sector

The digital transformation has had profound effects on all areas of the cultural sector. It has opened broad access to cultural knowledge and works while enabling the erection of silos and gathering of narrow, solipsistic communities. It has allowed hitherto unattainable analyses of cultural products and trends while creating powerful avenues for misinformation and misrepresentation. It has transformed systems for cultural distribution and preservation while eroding creator’s abilities to profit from their work. With the advent of Generative Artificial Intelligence, it has brought astonishing new tools for creation within general reach, while creating immense ethical dilemmas surrounding intellectual property and creative voice.

This Special Issue welcomes contributions that improve our understanding of the emerging trends and impact of digital technologies on the practice of cultural management and policy.
Potential areas of interest may include, but are not limited to:
• Examinations of the ways in which digital technology has altered practice in the cultural management field for better or worse
• Discussions of intellectual property concerns about creative work that have arisen as a result of digital technology and efforts to address these through government and professional association policy
• Explorations of the implications of Generative AI for creative practice and cultural management
• Examinations of the effects of digital technology on creative sector employment
• Analytical uses of digital technology, including Generative AI, for interpretation and historical research.
• Applications of digital technology and Generative AI in cultural management pedagogy