Questions as diverse as these are examined in detail in three fresh-off-the-press papers by the members of Tampere Group for Sociology of Culture!
Post-Doctoral Fellow Ossi Sirkka’s paper “Changing cultural landscape of digital disconnection in Finland from 2010 to 2025: a cultural cartography approach” was published in June in Journal of Computational Social Science. The paper is the first publication from the ongoing DISCO project. You can check it out here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-026-00483-2
The paper by Jarmo Kallunki (currently Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University), Susan A. Dumais (Professor of Sociology at City University of New York) and Riie Heikkilä (Senior Research Fellow at TAU) entitled “Regional differences in cultural participation in the United States and Europe” was published in July in International Journal of Cultural Policy. Check out this exiting cross-nationally comparative work here: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2026.2699163
Last but not least, Riie Heikkilä’s theoretically oriented paper “Algorithmic curation and the persistence of cultural distinction” has just today appeared in Consumption & Society. You can check it out here: https://doi.org/10.1332/27528499Y2026D000000089