Street performers and donations in an online environment in the wake of COVID-19

Q1 Social Sciences

City, Culture and Society Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1016/j.ccs.2021.100438

Meg Elkins, Tim R.L. Fry

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Abstract

The spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) has meant that street performers can no longer perform on the street. This has changed the landscape for the exchange for money between a street performer and their audience. The paper uses a unique data set from the online busking platform ‘The Busking Project’ (https://busk.co) to analyse whether sign up by performers to the platform and donation by individuals to street performers through the platform has changed since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The results show a lift both in street performers signing up to the platform and in individuals' donations to street performers after the announcement. The recovery of cities and the cultural economy from COVID-19 will not be immediate. As we move to a post COVID-19 world our results have implications for performers, for donors and for (local) governments as street performers return to the street.

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新型冠状病毒感染症(COVID-19)后的网络环境中的街头表演和捐款

新型冠状病毒(COVID-19)的传播意味着街头艺人无法再在街头表演。这改变了街头表演者和他们的观众之间金钱交易的格局。本文使用了在线街头表演平台“街头表演项目”(https://busk.co)的独特数据集，分析了自世界卫生组织于2020年3月11日宣布新冠肺炎大流行以来，表演者在平台上的注册情况和个人通过平台向街头表演者捐赠的情况是否发生了变化。结果显示，在该计划宣布后，街头艺人注册平台的人数和个人对街头艺人的捐款都有所增加。城市和文化经济不会立即从新冠肺炎疫情中复苏。随着我们进入后COVID-19世界，随着街头表演者重返街头，我们的研究结果对表演者、捐助者和(地方)政府都有影响。

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City, Culture and Society Economics, Econometrics and Finance-Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)

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