This research brief can be read as a companion to Arts Participation Patterns in 2022. That report is based
on the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA), which the NEA conducts regularly with the U.S.
Census Bureau. Unlike Arts Participation Patterns in 2022, the present brief discusses data from the
2022 General Social Survey (GSS), administered by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the
University of Chicago. The two national surveys have some essential differences, but both instruments
afford an understanding of whether and how different demographic subgroups participated in the arts
during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Supported by the NEA in partnership with the U.S. National Science Foundation, the 2022 GSS Arts Module
explicitly references the COVID-19 pandemic by asking respondents to reflect on their arts experiences
during the first year of the pandemic (from March 2020 to March 2021) and to report whether, in the most
recent 12-month period, they participated at a higher, lower, or identical rate. The GSS Arts Module also asked
respondents to report whether they observed livestreamed arts events and/or archived online arts events.
Because most of the technology questions are unique to the GSS Arts Module, they form the focus for
this brief. In addition to reporting results for the entire GSS Arts Module survey population, the brief
considers how responses varied by demographic subgroup. But first, directly below are the percentages
of respondents (U.S. adults aged 18 and older) who reported using technology in various ways to
participate in arts events in 2022.
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