Donnat, Olivier

French Cultural Participation in the Digital Age - 2009.


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First published in 1970s, The Ministry of Culture and Communication’s Cultural Participation survey has been the main barometer of French behaviour in the area of media and culture. Over a decade on from the 1997 results, those published in 2008 shows the impact of ten years of change wrought by the booming digital and internet-based culture : the increasing power of screen culture, the declining popularity of television and radio among the younger generations, declining daily newspaper and book readership and developments in content production.