A Handbook of Cultural Economics

Towse, Ruth

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“…Through recent decades the concept has been broadened in scope and in application by a number of scholars (e.g., Miége 1989, Towse 2003, Hesmondhalgh 2007. Underpinning the concept has been a concern about the strengthening relationship between industrial processes and cultural production, and the social implications of this for the creation, circulation and consumption of symbolic texts.…”

Section: Digital Games As a Global Cultural Industrymentioning

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The spatialisation of the digital games industry: lessons from Ireland

Kerr

Cawley

2012

International Journal of Cultural Policy

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2This article draws on the concept of spatialisation to better understand the development of a digital games industry on the periphery of mainland Europe, on the island of Ireland.Positioning digital games within the cultural and creative industries, we explore how global networks of production in this industry get territorialized, negotiated and shaped by local factors. Drawing upon an industry-wide survey in Ireland we found that employment has grown by 400% in the last decade but that this rate of employment growth and its concentration in large urban areas masks significant ruptures and shifts which more detailed spatial, occupational and social analysis reveals: in particular, how the state, multinational game companies, and physical and human capital interact to shape an industry which is strong in middleware, localisation and support but weak in content development. An understanding of global digital games production networks and of occupational patterns in this industry is, we believe, crucial for national and European cultural policies for the digital games industry and for the cultural and creative industries more generally.

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Section: Digital Games As a Global Cultural Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

The spatialisation of the digital games industry: lessons from Ireland

Kerr

Cawley

2012

International Journal of Cultural Policy

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“…All these things enable a context which is characterized by an interdependent network operation, flexible local labour markets and a certain type of competition that is fundamentally based on the qualitative attributes of assets, which are particularly important when work is project-oriented (instead of firm-career-oriented) -as is precisely the case of cultural activities (see Caves, 2002;Greffe, 2002;Towse, 2003).…”

Section: Agglomeration Urban Milieu and Creative Dynamics In Culturamentioning

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“…The artistic sector, regardless (and also because…) of this functioning "by project" is one of the main examples of the fact that the use of a mere market rationale could produce totally equivocal results, as many have shown (cf. Caves, 2002, Throsby, 2001, Towse, 2003.…”

Section: Agglomeration Urban Milieu and Creative Dynamics In Culturamentioning

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The urban milieu and the genesis of creativity in cultural activities: An introductory framework for the analysis of urban creative dynamics

Costa¹,

Vasconcelos²,

Sugahara³

2011

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The increasing interest on the role of cultural activities in territorial development and the related notion of "Creative City" have brought the relation between urban space and creative activities to the centre of academic and policy-making agendas. This paper aims to understand how the urban milieu plays an essential role in the embeddedness of sustainable creative dynamics based on cultural activities. We discuss the notion of creativity, focusing on cultural activities and then we analyse the role of urban milieu in the development of specific creative dynamics which enhance the sustainable production and consumption of cultural activities. Some concluding notes are drawn, in the perspective of assisting policy strategies to encourage sustainable territorial development dynamics based on these activities.

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“…6.5. 26 Furthermore, less legal restrictions on the use of music online could trigger taste formation regarding music (Caves 2000;Towse 2003;Ginsburgh and Throsby 2006), learning about existing related technologies and foster user innovation. It is unlikely that the choice experiment fully captures such long-term effects.…”

Section: Long-term Effects On the Supply Of Recorded Musicmentioning

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Going means trouble and staying makes it double: the value of licensing recorded music online

2015

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This paper discusses whether a copyright compensation system (CCS) for recorded music-endowing private Internet subscribers with the right to download and use works in return for a fee-would be welfare increasing. It reports on the results of a discrete choice experiment conducted with a representative sample of the Dutch population consisting of 4986 participants. Under some conservative assumptions, we find that applied only to recorded music, a mandatory CCS could increase the welfare of rights holders and users in the Netherlands by over €600 million per year (over €35 per capita). This far exceeds current rights holder revenues from the market of recorded music of ca. €144 million per year. A monthly CCS fee of ca. €1.74 as a surcharge on Dutch Internet subscriptions would raise the same amount of revenues to rights holders as the current market for recorded music. With a voluntary CCS, the estimated welfare gains to users and rights holders are even greater for CCS fees below €20 on the user side. A voluntary CCS would also perform better in the long run, as it could retain a greater extent of market coordination. The results of our choice experiment indicate that a well-designed CCS for recorded music would simultaneously make users and rights holders better off. This result holds even if we correct for frequently observed rates of overestimation in contingent valuation studies.

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A Handbook of Cultural Economics

Cited by 177 publications

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The spatialisation of the digital games industry: lessons from Ireland

The spatialisation of the digital games industry: lessons from Ireland

The urban milieu and the genesis of creativity in cultural activities: An introductory framework for the analysis of urban creative dynamics

Going means trouble and staying makes it double: the value of licensing recorded music online

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