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Digital Culture 2019: Factsheets

Read the results of Arts Council England and Nesta’s study of technology use and impact among arts and culture organisations, by artform.

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Shoubhik Bandopadhyay

Insights Manager, Arts and Culture Finance team

Shoubhik produced primary and secondary research to help the team and its partners better understand the impact of their work and identify opportunities for future development

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Technology has impacted creative work and its associated industries in different ways.

Digital Culture, a major longitudinal study of arts and cultural organisations' use of technology in England, charts trends in this area over 2013-2019. It looks at how organisations use digital technology in different ways, and the associated opportunities, impacts and challenges they experience.

These factsheets let you browse the results of Digital Culture 2019 by artform.

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Digital Culture 2019: Factsheets

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