Creative industries

Personal identity within the creative industries 1. Annotated Bibliography: The following case study will compare and contrast three separate texts in order to formulate a question and create reflection and discussion around this. I have grouped together three particular articles due to them all sharing the common idea of identity within the creative industries. Each article discusses a different angle or perspective on identity. Beech, N., Gilmore, C. L., Hibbert, P. C., & Ybema, S. (2016). Identity-in-the-work and musicians’ struggles: the production of self-questioning identity work. Work, Employment and Society, 30(3), 506-522. DOI: 10.1177/0950017015620767 This particular text discusses identity work in relation…

The success of new products and services within the creative industry sector is dependent on the product or services ability to employ various key concepts. The key concepts of attention, digital literacy and networks will be used to evaluate the theoretical soundness of the StudentLyfe news service. Attention is a rare commodity in an information rich society, which is why it’s vital to be able to shift through the non-essential information. To do this, consumers must have a sound knowledge of…

public. The creative industries are defined by three components: “[one,] human creativity; [two], they are vehicles for symbolic messages…and [three], they contain… some intellectual property that belongs to an individual or a group” (Davies and Sigthorsson, 1). The fast fashion industry satisfies this definition through providing the masses with highly accessible clothing that aids in differentiating one from his/her peers. Subsequently, when one’s values, beliefs and preferences are at the…

The way creative industries rooted in western economies could drive smaller “industries”, like rural communities for instance, to use creativity to ‘shape people’s livelihood’(Collective Action and Property Rights fro Poverty Reduction, p. 328) towards a creation of collectives that would perhaps coalesced together ‘update’ their environment. At a community level, rural Cambodia’s system, as mentioned previously, plods along of cultural bridges, in fact, one of the most serious problem is that…

sectors such as creative industries. There are several factors that determine the topicality of this paper. Firstly, the UK experience in the development of the…

Kingdom creative industries as well as the umbrella position of the Creative Industries Federation. It is also the discovering of a new position and attributions. For that purpose I will discuss of the intern position which I assume it could be a really difficult role. Chapter one – The Creative Industries environment. This chapter is quite an academic part with sociological and few economics analysis of the background. It feels it is surely important for the reader to thoroughly understand my…

emergence and functioning of such an age depends on the health of creative industries. However, there is a boosterish view on the term ‘creativity’, meaning that the creative industries are great but it is also flawed due to the significant and unique difficulties it harbours. This essay will discuss some of the reasons on why I strongly agree with this proposition but will also acknowledge that there are certain limitations that come with it. To begin with, what is an age of creativity? An…

for businesses to produce more with the same amount of resources and creates new markets and industries within an economy. However, the people who benefit the most from these technological innovations are those who are high-skilled workers. As the global economy continues to globalize and grow, there has been a noticeable shift in favor of those who develop skills and work in high-skilled labor markets. a.) According to Adam Davidson in “Making it in America”, early technological improvements…

Everyone at some point in his or her lives has eaten at a fast food restaurant. It is almost inevitable not to because they literally are on every corner of any major city. Take Athens for example, there are multiple fast food restaurants around town but they are even downtown and on campus as well. And let’s face it, most fast food restaurants are cheap and the food is always ready more quickly then you could make it at home, which is the point in their existence, but sometimes this industry…

and manufacturing industries, with an increase in service- and knowledge-based industries (Krahn et al, 2012, p. 29). Several contemporary sociologists have conceived theories on how post-industrialism is evolving and what it means in today’s society, a few of which follow. In the early 1970s, American sociologist Daniel Bell was the first to recognize how the structure of work had been shifting from agrarian to manufacturing to a service sector orientation (Krahn et al, 2012, p. 26). Bell…