AC/E Digital Culture Annual Report

This year's Yearbook analyzes in its first part, through six articles by specialists, current digital issues such as digital practices and SDGs, culture and its space, exponential technologies, the impact of new technologies on nature, culture on Tik Tok and on Twitch.

The Focus “Does digital content travel in Spanish?” makes an analysis, through an exhaustive study of the keys to the operation of digital cultural content in Spanish, the most demanded themes, its export to other markets and its transformation to other formats (music, books, audiobooks, movies, series of television, podcasts, video games, plays, etc.). This information has been reflected in various studies and partial articles from each of the cultural industries. This year's Focus carries out an exercise of aggregating results and a joint analysis to obtain the main keys on the journey of digital content in Spanish with the aim of providing relevant information and data on the consumption of culture in Spanish throughout the world to professionals in the cultural sector.

These are some of the topics the articles address:
-Data for management and cultural analysis. - The transformation of libraries in the digital age.
-Technological countercultures and practices of techno-resistance.
- The NTFs in the world of culture allow the creation of digital works of art that are sold through these payment methods, as well as the management of copyright through this technology.
- The cultural Metaverse or what cultural experiences will be like in a metaverse world that is expected to have a great impact on our society in the coming years.
- Growing payment culture in the digital cultural world.
-The culture of creating and designing online, gives keys to both managers and creators of the latest trends and tools.
- The script behind everything. The role and evolution of the script as a support for all staging.

FOCUS 2020: Artificial intelligence and cultural creation
In recent years we have been seeing how the eruption of artificial intelligence is affecting all areas of artistic creation. New technologies, and in particular artificial intelligence, are drastically changing the nature of the creative process. Computers play a very important role in activities such as music, architecture, visual and performing arts, storytelling, and literature or cinema, among others. In fact, the computer is already a canvas, a brush or a musical instrument.