This study aims to analyze the age, regional distribution, and fighting styles of 174 top-ranking Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) elite athletes to encourage the long-term success of coaches and athletes in terms of athletic development, talent selection, and training strategies. It uses...

This study aims to investigate the motivations for undergraduate students to pursue studies in culinary arts. The research consists of a mixed methodology, a survey with 94 students from 64 different Brazilian universities, and two focus groups, one group with ten students and one group with twelve ...

As a genuinely contemporary sport, mixed martial arts (MMA) was born and developed throughout the twentieth century, during which time it remained fairly marginal, only to find a more formal and mediatized format in the 1990s. The first legal events in France began taking place in 2020....

This article critically examines the way in which the legitimation of emerging artists occurs in the digitalized art market. Based on a conceptual specification of intermediaries' practices in the legitimation process, we have conducted a case study of Saatchi Art, a pioneering digital platform for ...

Museums constantly face challenges from the ever-changing political, economic, technological, and social environment. One such challenge is to thrive despite the difficult economic climate and decreased public funding. This difficulty pressures museums to develop stronger engagement with the...

Performing artists seem to remain in the culture sector despite the challenges with sustaining an artistic practice. Our research question is why the occupational commitment of the artistic precariat survives an external shock like the Covid-19 shutdown. We combined quantitative and qualitative...

Who are masters of economic performances in US art museums? Due to the economic crisis and budget cuts, today, entrepreneurship is a must. Thanks to relationship marketing board members, employees and volunteers are all entitled to call for the willingness to donate and the willingness to pay of...

Visual and text-based art plays a role in constituting and sustaining international harm reduction social movements based on drug user rights. The digital arts of harm reduction examined in this article counter sociological discomfort with pleasure by performing the artisanal pleasures of craft,...

This article examines the mediatization of culture in Moroccan urban society. Drawing on two illustrative examples, namely MFRW (Mawazine Festival Rhythms of the World) and MIFF (Marrakech International film Festival), the article attempts to understand the dynamics and mechanics of media framing...

This article shares collaborative scientific work done by researchers from the Centre for Social Studies (University of Coimbra, Portugal) and from the Technology, Restoration and Arts Enhancement Center (Polytechnical Institute of Tomar, Portugal) within the REDE ARTÉRIA in cooperation with...