The Cultural Consumption Barometer. Culture and New Technologies, between Sedentariness and Cultural Activism [2012]

The 2012 edition of the Cultural Consumption Barometer is dedicated to the analysis of several topical themes and gives a particular importance to the way the general population accesses and consumes cultural products within the public or private space.

The domestic network of electronic cultural goods, the leisure activities, the types of public for the performing arts, the choices and curiosities of children as future actors of the cultural consumption and the participation in sports events are the main themes approached in this edition.

The steady hierarchy of the preferences in the last five years shows that there is a public loyal to certain cultural events, but the high consumption of Internet audio-video pirate downloads, the abandonment of sports practice or the low degree of children’s enrolment in extracurricular or performance activities show the existence of problems related to the cultural supply and infrastructure, as well as to the lack of access to information.