#PopCulture #Zeitgeist refers to a specific period in society, often shaped by #MassMedia and #CulturalTrends. It reflects the collective attitudes and values of a time, influencing how people interact with cultural products and each other. 📺 #AOTS you had to be there at it’s #MaxiMUM 💯

New book review in Cultural Trends

Sally Robinson reviews Mark Deuze’s Well-Being and Creative Careers, exploring the tensions between creative fulfilment, precarity, and wellbeing.

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Cultural Trends Publishes timely investigations on issues in the arts, culture and creative sectors, and critically engages with policy debates from international perspectives.

New from Cultural Trends
Recent articles explore cultural policy, class and taste, diversity data, and inclusion across urban design, festivals, and the screen industries.

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Coming up this week: Cultural Trends Roundtable 3
The Politics of Participation: Navigating Cultural Policy through Community Arts

🗓 1 April
⏰ 5pm GMT
📍 Online
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Beauty has never been just blush and lipstick. Our latest deep dive explores how the mirror became a battleground. 💄🪞zurl.co/mlttw

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The psychology behind society’s fixation on incels Despite their small numbers, incels loom incredibly large in public consciousness. A new study explains why: their stories hit our deepest evolutionary panic buttons regarding sex, status, and societal threat.

The psychology behind society’s fixation on incels #Science #Culture #Incels #SocialPsychology #CulturalTrends

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Going mainstream isn’t about hype - it’s about usefulness.

Ideas scale when they meet a shared need, travel through the right channels, and invite participation.

Galentine’s Day worked because it became culturally relevant, not just clever.
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Cultural Decay and the Rise of Political Self-Interest - Dennis Joiner Uncover the roots of cultural decay and the alarming rise of political self-interest in America. Read Dennis Joiner's The Turn now!

In exploring the rise of political self-interest and what many describe as cultural decay, I wanted to look beyond headlines and into the deeper shifts shaping our society...
You can read it here: www.djoinerbooks.com/cultural-dec...
#CulturalTrends #PoliticsToday #SocialDynamics #CollectiveValues

Why the Moltbook frenzy was like Pokémon The social network for AI bots resembled a spectator battle, with AI enthusiasts competing to make their agents look sentient.

Why the Moltbook frenzy was like Pokémon #Science #Other #MoltbookFrenzy #Pokémon #CulturalTrends

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Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Sparks National Controversy As Trump Announces Boycott From ICE threats to culture‑war backlash, the debate over Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show now reflects a national fight over identity and belonging.

The reaction to Bad Bunny’s halftime show proves that culture creates conversation before the performance even happens.

Praise and criticism alike amplify attention, shaping perception and relevance across platforms.
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A Leftist Anti-ICE Fantasy In my meandering imagination, I was a liberal, yearning to join the anti-ICE peaceful protest in Minneapolis and trying to figure out how I would let our government know how strenuously I object to th...

🔥 When politics turns into cosplay, reality is always the first casualty. Some activists aren’t arguing policy anymore—they’re role-playing revolution. 🤔

READ NOW:
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#Politics #ImmigrationDebate #MediaLiteracy #CulturalTrends #CivicReality

Trends About To Change How We Live: From Finances to Relationships Getty Images 2026 is shaping up to be a reset year, with cultural values shifting toward slower, more intentional living. From biohacking and AI healthcare to micro-cations, resale wardrobes and an…

Trends About To Change How We Live: From Finances to Relationships  onlinemarketingscoops.com/2025/12/31/t...
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#lifetrends #currenttrends #trendalert #lifestyleinspo #inspiringtrends #LivingTrendy #trendingnow #modernlife #CulturalTrends #Lifestyle #lifeinspiration

Rob McConnell Interviews - MICHAEL KAROLCHYK - Barbara Streisand Says President Trump Is Making Her Fat Michael Karolchyk examines the viral headline in which Barbra Streisand claims that President Donald Trump is responsible for her weight gain, using the moment as a lens to explore celebrity activism, political stress narratives, and the psychology of public blame. The discussion looks beyond the headline to analyze how emotional responses to politics are framed in popular culture, how celebrity statements shape public discourse, and why such remarks resonate so strongly in polarized times. Karolchyk places the story within a broader conversation about media amplification, stress, identity, and the intersection of politics and personal well-being.

📣 New Podcast! "Rob McConnell Interviews - MICHAEL KAROLCHYK - Barbara Streisand Says President Trump Is Making Her Fat" on @Spreaker #activism #blame #celebrityculture #commentary #culturaltrends #emotion #entertainment #headlineanalysis #identity #media #newsanalysis #opinion #perception

🎧 The WorldView in 5 Minutes
71 U.S. abortion mills closed this year; Fewer British Christians, more pagans; Fellowship of Christian Athletes distributed 244,000 Bibles this year
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6 Cultural Trends Driving 2025 Holiday Sales For Small Businesses Even with higher prices, nearly half of shoppers plan to cut back elsewhere to fund gift-giving — a sign that smart small businesses can capture significant revenue.

What’s fueling small business sales this holiday season? Six cultural trends are reshaping how shoppers spend in 2025. https://tinyurl.com/57esm423

#SmallBusiness #Sales #holidays #CulturalTrends #Shopping

Day 2 of the Global Dialogues at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) featured powerful keynotes from Mark Taylor and Brea Heidelberg, tackling enduring inequalities in the cultural sector.

#CulturalTrends #GlobalDialogues #PUCP #CulturalPolicy

Who is Gen Z? #CulturalTrends #CultureShift #digitalnatives #GenZ #GenerationalDifferences #marketingtoGenZ #SocialChange #WorkplaceCulture
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Now underway: a powerful keynote conversation between Néstor García Canclini and Susan Oman, exploring what kinds of cultural policies we need in an age shaped by digital platforms.

#GlobalDialogues #CulturalTrends #CulturalPolicy #Lima #PUCP

Episode 1 — Cultural Practices, the Arts, and Democracy

New in Cultural Trends: from Chile’s Galería CIMA to Portugal’s arts policy, museums & democracy, & García Canclini’s legacy in Latin America.

+ our first podcast: Democracy as Creative Practice.

Read, listen, reflect 🌍 open.spotify.com/episode/5O3v...

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Hybrid cultures. On Néstor García Canclini's contribution to cultural research in Latin America The publication of García Canclini's Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity in 1990 was a turning point in the way the social sciences, humanities, and cultural studies anal...

Celebrating Néstor García Canclini’s lasting influence on Latin American cultural research.

Read Guillermo Quiña’s new article:

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#HybridCultures #GlobalSouth #CulturalTrends

Between cultural democratisation and cultural democracy: the design of a cultural policy in Portugal This study investigates the design of the Social Impact Commitment of Cultural Organisations (CISOC) within Portugal’s National Plan for the Arts (NPA) and focuses on two distinct conceptualisation...

Between democratisation & democracy—what drives Portugal’s new cultural policy? New article by Flora Maravalhas & José Soares Neves.

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Democracy as creative practice: weaving a culture of civic life Published in Cultural Trends (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Democracy as creativity. Read Jae-an Crisman’s review of Democracy as Creative Practice + hear authors Tom Borrup & Andrew Zitcer on our first podcast 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/5O3v...

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International Conference The International Conference on Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development is part of the global dialogues on cultural policy.

Global Dialogues – PUCP, Lima

Global Dialogues on Culture & Sustainable Development (5–7 Nov, PUCP Lima) brings together global allies including @unesco.org , British Council & Taylor & Francis.
#CulturalTrends #GlobalDialogues

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Living Like It’s 1850: The Subculture That Rejects Modern Life - growing subculture is rejecting modern technology and consumerism to live like it’s 1850—embracing simplicity, craftsmanship, and human sssss

Living Like It’s 1850: The Subculture That Rejects Modern Life wiobs.com/living-like-... #1850sLifestyle #DigitalDetox #OffGridLiving #SlowLife #CulturalTrends

New research reveals startling drop in reading for pleasure among Americans A comprehensive new study analyzing two decades of data from the United States has found a sustained and significant drop in the number of people who read for pleasure on a daily basis. The research,...

New research reveals startling drop in reading for pleasure among Americans #Science #Culture #ReadingDecline #CulturalTrends #Literature

The Allure of Liminal Spaces: Why Empty Hallways Terrify Us - WIOBS Empty hallways and abandoned corridors often evoke fear and unease. Explore the psychology of liminal spaces and sss

The Allure of Liminal Spaces: Why Empty Hallways Terrify Us wiobs.com/the-allure-o... #LiminalSpaces #Psychology #CulturalTrends #TheBackrooms #FearAndMind

The mutability of cultural value: a critical analysis The contemporary cultural value debate has been broadly UK-driven, albeit with European and international dimensions. However, the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent focus on sector working condi...

Cultural Trends – Volume 34, Issue 3
Does ‘cultural value’ mean the same thing everywhere?
Steven Hadley, Emma McDowell & Ben Walmsley analyse the Irish cultural policy context.

Read it here:
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Cultural Trends Volume 34, Issue 3 of Cultural Trends

Cultural Trends – Volume 34, Issue 3

From street art in Porto to artists’ working lives in South Korea, our new issue tackles big questions in cultural policy and practice.

Read the highlights: www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccut20/3...
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Cultural Trends Volume 34, Issue 3 of Cultural Trends

Cultural Trends – Volume 34, Issue 3

From street art in Porto to artists’ working lives in South Korea, our new issue tackles big questions in cultural policy and practice.

Read the highlights: www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccut20/3...
#CulturalTrends #ArtsResearch #CulturalPolicy #Artists #StreetArt