How do cultural critics in the digital age convince audiences that their writings are valuable?
What discursive strategies do they employ to construct their authority? And which differences …

__Abstract__ The shaping influence of cultural mediators, in particular their legitimizing
power, has led cultural scholars to coin them 'tastemakers,''gatekeepers,''surrogate …

Because of the complex structures characteristic of the arts sector and creative industries, it
is often thought that external network ties of leading managers are critical to the success of …

Traditionally, media critics play a central role in the attribution of symbolic value to cultural
products. This article studies empirically how the process of cultural evaluation is affected by …

Studies suggest that popular music genres are increasingly discussed by cultural
intermediaries in 'legitimate'or 'highbrow'terms, rather than merely 'lowbrow'commercial …

Many authors have pointed to the internet's potential to increase connectivity across the
world, which would imply an equalizing effect, yet few researchers have examined this. At …

Movie critics have long been assumed to act independently in evaluating movies. We
challenge this assumption by examining consumers' influence on critics. Drawing on the …

This article examines whether the attention to cultural products on the internet is more
democratically structured (in terms of gender and genre distributions) than in traditional print …

The digitalization of creative industries has undermined the business models of legacy
media outlets as well as the music industries. This article discusses the two primary ways …

This paper investigates how the reception and evaluation of artists coming from a relatively
peripheral and emerging art market might vary in transnational settings. Studies on cultural …