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The rise of creative industries requires new thinking in communication, media and cultural studies, media and cultural policy, and the arts and information sectors. The Creative Industries sets the agenda for these debates, providing a richer understanding of the dynamics of cultural markets, creative labor, finance and risk, and how culture is distributed, marketed and creatively reused through new media technologies. This book:
develops a global perspective on the creative industries and creative economy; draws insights from media and cultural studies, innovation economics, cultural policy studies, and economic and cultural geography; explores what it means for policy-makers when culture and creativity move from the margins to the center of economic dynamics; makes extensive use of case studies in ways that are relevant not only to researchers and policy-makers, but also to the generation of students who will increasingly be establishing a ‘portfolio career’ in the creative industries
International in coverage, The Creative Industries traces the historical and contemporary ideas that make the cultural economy more relevant that it has ever been. It is essential reading for students and academics in media, communication and cultural studies.
Globalisation, Cities and Creative Spaces
Globalisation, Cities and Creative Spaces
Globalisation became one of the key concepts of the 1990s and 2000s. From being a term that was rarely used prior to the 1990s, its influence had become such that it was argued that by the early 2000s ‘globalisation, in one form or another, is impacting on the levels of everyone on the planet … globalisation might justifiably claim to be the defining feature of human society at the start of the 21st century’ (Benyon and Dunkerley, 2000: 3); or, as Anthony Giddens put it, ‘globalisation is not incidental to our lives today. It is a shift in our very life circumstances. It is the way we now live’ (Giddens, 2003: 19). Although the term has ...
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