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MyCreativity Reader. A Critique of Creative Industries

Editor(s): Lovink, GeertRossiter, Ned

Abstract

The MyCreativity Reader is a collection of critical research into the creative industries. The material develops out of the MyCreativity Convention on International Creative Industries Research held in Amsterdam, November 2006. This two-day conference sought to bring the trends and tendencies around the creative industries into critical question. The ‘creative industries’ concept was initiated by the UK Blair government in 1997 to revitalise de-industrialised urban zones. Gathering momentum after being celebrated in Richard Florida’s best-seller The Creative Class (2002), the concept mobilised around the world as the zeitgeist of creative entrepreneurs and policy-makers. Despite the euphoria surrounding the creative industries, there has been very little critical research that pays attention to local and national variations, working conditions, the impact of restrictive intellectual property regimes and questions of economic sustainability. The reader presents academic research alongside activist reports that aim to dismantle the buzz-machine.

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Lovink, Geert; Rossiter, Ned(Hg.): MyCreativity Reader. A Critique of Creative Industries. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures 2007. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19283.
@BOOK{Lovink2007,
 title = {MyCreativity Reader. A Critique of Creative Industries},
 year = 2007,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19283}",
 editor = {Lovink, Geert and Rossiter, Ned},
 volume = 3,
 address = {Amsterdam},
 series = {INC Readers},
 publisher = {Institute of Network Cultures},
 isbn = {978-90-78146-04-9},
}
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