IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijkbde/v15y2025i1p88-109.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Cultural industries 4.0: how digitalisation is reshaping the sector: insights from a systematic literature review

Author

Listed:
  • Salvatore Ammirato
  • Alberto Michele Felicetti
  • Roberto Linzalone
  • Carlo Giglio
  • Nicola Frega

Abstract

Industry 4.0 is heavily impacting on business models of Cultural Industries firms enabling new forms of engagement and collaboration, new distribution channels, as well as on the user experience by fostering new and higher-quality services for art exhibitions, online transactions, museums, education, promotion, etc. Despite that, the literature on the relationships between Industry 4.0 technologies and Cultural Industries, lacks a systematisation of topics, methods and constructs. This paper addresses this gap by utilising a systematic literature review (SLR) approach. A total of 303 papers were collected and analysed, by means of an LDA procedure, and three core topics were identified examining: 1) content creation and distribution channels; 2) visibility, protection and immersive experiences; and 3) accessibility and engagement on the cultural industries worldwide. The proposed framework highlights the highly fragmented nature of research on I4.0 and digitalisation in the Cultural Industries and gives interesting insights for further inquiry.

Suggested Citation

  • Salvatore Ammirato & Alberto Michele Felicetti & Roberto Linzalone & Carlo Giglio & Nicola Frega, 2025. "Cultural industries 4.0: how digitalisation is reshaping the sector: insights from a systematic literature review," International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 15(1), pages 88-109.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijkbde:v:15:y:2025:i:1:p:88-109
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=145498
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijkbde:v:15:y:2025:i:1:p:88-109. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=354 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.