Cultural industries, canons and filter bubbles

The digital revolution has brought about large-scale changes in the world of culture. The functioning of the creative industries, the structure of social and political publicity, and the tasteful organization of individual and group identities are all undergoing a transformation. Cultural consumers enclose themselves in opinion bubbles; at the same time, in the medium of digital communication, the line between author and reader, producer and consumer, fiction and reality is increasingly blurred. And in addition to roles, attitudes also change, whether we think of literature, music, or serial consumption. But are we really dealing with a profound change? Has the everyday life of cultural production and consumption really changed radically? Is the formation of echo chambers a new phenomenon in every taste? Isn’t it possible that salons, communities, and group identities that existed before the digital age also created opinion bubbles, just didn’t we call them that? Answering these questions can hardly be the task of a single discipline. The studies of our volume, which, with one exception, were presented at the conference "Cultural Industries, Canon and Filter Bubbles" co-organized by the Department of Sociology and Communication of BUTE and the Department of Media and Communication of Eötvös Loránd University, attempt to assess the actual impact of technology. transformation of the environment into the functioning of cultural industries.