Cultures of Participation (PDF)

Birgit Eriksson is Professor of cultural theory and analysis at the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark. Her current research focuses on participatory arts and culture; art and social communities; aesthetics and politics. She is the author or editor of eight books. Recent journal articles include "Forms and potential effects of citizen participation in European cultural centres" (co-au, 2018) and "Are we really there, and in contact? Staging firsthand witnesses of contemporary Danish warfare" (2017).

Carsten Stage is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark. His current research focuses on patient participation, affect and social media. Recent publications include the monographs The Language of Illness and Death on Social Media (Emerald, 2018, co-au), Networked Cancer (Palgrave, 2017) and Global Media, Biopolitics and Affect (Routledge, 2015, co-au) and the edited collection Affective Methodologies (Palgrave, 2015, co-ed).

Bjarki Valtysson is associate professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His current research is focused on cultural participation, digital cultural policy and algorithmic platform societies. He is the author or editor of several books and articles. Recent publications include Media and the Mundane: Communication Across Media in Everyday Life (Nordicom 2016, co-ed), Technologies of Labour and the Politics of Contradiction (Palgrave 2018, co-ed) and Digital Cultural Policy: From Politics to Practice (Palgrave, 2020).