The Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy offers international perspectives on a wide range of issues in cultural management and cultural policy research and practice. This issue examines the effects digitization and digitalization have had on discourses, research designs, and processes of artistic production, distribution, and reception. Dealing with digital phenomena reconfigures social patterns of action, thinking, and organization in the arts and cultural sectors. These sectors are changing profoundly and rapidly, and with them their networks, audiences, the conditions of work and consumption. These issues are particularly acute during the ongoing COVID 19-pandemic with serious effects on the arts and cultural fields, showing the possibilities, but also the limits, of digitalization and digitization in the cultural sector. The authors discuss the challenges and opportunities digitalization and digitization imply for cultural management and cultural policy.

Constance DeVereaux (PhD) is associate professor in residence and director, MFA Arts Administration at the University of Connecticut.Steffen Höhne (Prof. Dr.) is professor for cultural management and head of the cultural management course at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar.Martin Tröndle (Prof.) is chair of cultural production at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen. He is the editor of the »Journal for Cultural Management: Art, Politics, Economics and Society« and director of the Swiss National Science Foundation project »eMotion mapping museum experience«. He was a music consultant in the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture. He has received various prizes and awards for his research work.Marjo Mäenpää (PhD) is director of the Center for Cultural Policy Research, Helsinki (Finland).