Business of the Creative Industries Environment
You are asked to examine and critique different types of changing environments that pertain to creative practice.
Assessment is intended to support individual idea development and the building of students’ own line of arguments. It is intended to be more of a think piece about what the student thinks about broad conceptual and policy issues. The format of the piece is less formal; a short report, which engages with key reading and ideas (no table of contents required). It is a short piece and students should not attempt to do too much – make just 1 or 2 arguments and make the arguments convincingly.
Through assignment 2, students will:
- The role of digital platforms as cultural intermediaries
- Barriers to entry to the creative industries
- Exploiting micro dynamics of innovation in co-working spaces
Complete a 1,000 word report. This is worth 10% of the module mark.
Complete a 1,000 word report on one of the following topics discussed in class:
Assessment 2 is intended to support individual idea development and the building of students’ own line of arguments. It is intended to be more of a think piece about what the student thinks about broad conceptual and policy issues. The format of the piece is less formal; a short report, which engages with key reading and ideas (no table of contents required). It is a short piece and students should not attempt to do too much – make just 1 or 2 arguments and make the arguments convincingly.
Through assignment 2, students will:
- The role of digital platforms as cultural intermediaries
- Barriers to entry to the creative industries
- Exploiting micro dynamics of innovation in co-working spaces
- The role of creative commons licences in the creative industries
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LCBS5048 Business of the Creative Industries Environment
- Demonstrateacomprehensiveunderstandingofthecreativeindustriesandtheirroleinthecreative economy (25%).
- Applyknowledgebyanalysingconceptualideasandcreatingnewconceptsandsolutionsforareallife scenario (50%).
- Communicateresearchfindingsandconclusionseffectivelytosupportcogencyofargumentandto demonstrate academic engagement (25%).
Resources
Cultural intermediaries:
Bourdieu, P. (1984) Distinction: A social critique of the judgment of taste. Routledge |
Assessment 2 | |
Mon 3rd Feb (PM) | Precarious Work and Challenging Environments:
De Peuter, G. (2011) Creative Economy and Labor Precarity: A contested convergence, in Journal of Communication Inquiry 35(4), pp417-425 McRobbie, A. (2002) Clubs to Companies: Notes on the decline of political culture in speeded up creative worlds, in Cultural Studies 16(4), pp516-531 Morgan, G., Wood, J. and Nelligan, P. (2013)_ Beyond the Vocational Fragments: Creative work precarious labour and the idea of ‘flexploitation’, in the Economic and Labour Relations Review, 24(3), pp397-415 |
Assessment 2 |
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LCBS5048
Business of the Creative Industries Environment
Tues 4th Feb | Spaces of Access: accessing support for creative enterprises and workers. Bouncken, R.B. and Reuschl, A.J. (2018) Coworking-spaces: how a phenomenon of the sharing economy builds a novel trend for the workplace and for entrepreneurship’, in Review of Managerial Science 12(1), pp317-334 Capdevila, I. (2015) Co-working Spaces and the Localised Dynamics of Innovation in Barcelona, in International Journal of Innovation Management 19(3), pp154 Gandini, A. (2015) The Rise of the Coworking Spaces: A literature review, in Ephemera 15(1), p193 Montgomery, J. (2007) Creative Industry Business Incubators and Managed workspaces: A review of best practice, in Planning, Practice and Research, 22(4), |
Assessment 2 |
Thurs 6th None Feb
Assessment 2
pp601-617
Thurs 6th Feb | Digital Environments: intellectual property in the digital age.
Guibault, L.M. (2006) The Future of the Public Domain: identifying the commons in information law (vol 16). Kluwer Law International BV.
Montgomery, L. and Fitzgerald, B., 2006. Copyright and the creative industries in |
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