The LOCUS project funded under the 3rd Call for H.F.R.I (Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation) Research Projects to support Postdoctoral Researchers will explore young people’s interactions with cultural spaces through the lens of social media consumption.
The overall objective of the project is to investigate to what extent young people’s social media consumption transforms cultural spaces to “performative spaces” and how young people’s engagement with such spaces enacts their digital identities. The project aims to broaden understanding of youth cultural experiences in the context of our digital society. The intention is to address the context in which the present everyday lives are characterised by social media communication and how this is expressed in relation to cultural experiences. LOCUS focuses on people aged between 16 and 30, as they are typically considered to live at the cutting edge of social and digital change. The project is designed to develop an interactive dialogue with cultural institutions and policy-makers in order to further understand what constitutes belonging in cultural spaces and the ways they use social media platforms to reach young people.