New media after the Dot.com bust

Christopherson, Susan; Jaarsveld, Danielle van

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“…It must be explicitly noted that this is not a linear, unproblematic or necessarily successful process -as what also comes to mind when considering the histories of the four case studies in the context of an emerging body of literature on new media work (see, for example, Christopherson and Van Jaarsveld, 2005) are elements of distinct disorganization (Leung, 2005) and disequilibrium (Lovink, 2003) embedded in the praxis of the new media ecosystem. Jenkins acknowledges this as well, shrugging off similar concerns by accepting it as a permanent condition: 'For the foreseeable future, convergence will be a kind of kludge -a jerry-rigged relationship between different media technologies -rather than a fully integrated system ' (2004: 34).…”

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Convergence culture in the creative industries

Deuze

2007

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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• This article maps the emerging practices in media professions like journalism, advertising, marketing communications and public relations in adapting to a new global environment, characterized by an increasingly participatory media culture. Among creatives and brand managers in ad agencies `interactive advertising' is at the center of the contemporary buzz. Marketers in the cultural industries brainstorm about the potential of upstream marketing, while in public relations the opportunities of two-way symmetrical communication are explored. Editors of news publications increasingly jump on the `citizen journalism' bandwagon. All these trends are part of the same phenomenon: a convergence of the cultures of media production and consumption. In this essay, these developments are discussed in terms of their potential impact on consensual assumptions about the nature of media work, seen through the lens of the combination of individual creativity and mass production, also known as creative industries. •

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Convergence culture in the creative industries

Deuze

2007

International Journal of Cultural Studies

208

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“…Rising rent displaces not only artists but also creative professionals [20,21]. Given this issue, questions are raised regarding the politics involved in the formation of creative groups and their spaces: what is considered creative or innovative and who is benefiting from this process [22,23]? These placesonce bohemian clustersare commoditized or emulated, then transformed into habitats for wealthy Bobos (bohemian bourgeois) [20,21,24].…”

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Evolution of Cultural Clusters in China: Comparative Study of Beijing and Shanghai

Wang¹

2012

Architectoni.ca

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The openness to marketization in China provides opportunities for artists to pursue self-expression for a new career of old buzzword of culture. Bohemian group in Beijing is the forerunner to retreat from the authoritative regime to the market system. The second attempt, represented by Beijing 798, successfully secured a respectable standing within and beyond the field of art, locally and worldwide. In Shanghai, the discourse was soon reshaped to favour creative industrial zones after renovation of abandoned plants, with its landscape devoted more to the aestheticization, frequently based on 'heritage' discovery and appropriation.From Beijing to Shanghai, the travelling discourse on the creatives and their places in Chinese cities undergoes divergent processes, thus, generating respective products. The paper presents the evolving process of representative cases in Beijing and Shanghai with attention on actions taken by major actors: the artists, the social forces involved in the struggle to preserve the cultural clusters, and the state. It is maintained that the development of cultural cluster is indeed a product that reflects structurally biased social relations. Under this account, I attempt to explore discourses and tactics deployed by various actors and the web of interconnectedness. Whilst exploring market niche for a continuous economic growth, the state, at the same time, cautiously navigates the transformation away from politically forbidden areas.

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“…It is also worth noting that media work is highly affected by external changes such as regulatory and policy frameworks (Christopherson 2004;Alacovska and Gill 2019;Christopherson and van Jaarsveld 2005), technological transformations (Bartosova 2011;Lewis and Westlund 2015), and audience habits (Villi and Picard 2019;Chua and Westlund 2019;Barrios-Rubio 2021). This means that media work is by no means happening in a vacuum (Dickinson 2007), but the interesting point here is that-as Markova and McKay (2013) argued-these changes are shaping new forms of media work in such a way that workers may benefit from new opportunities (e.g., new ways of community building, more exciting workplaces, new applications of technologies for decision makings, etc.).…”

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The Nature of Work in the Media Industries: A Literature Review and Future Directions

Omidi

Zotto

Picard

2022

Journalism and Media

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Media work is a culture-making activity affecting the ways people understand the world and, therefore, workers in the media industries have a critical role in shaping collective memories, traditions, and belief systems. While studies regarding the characteristics impacting the nature of work in the media industries have significantly been increasing over the last years, the literature in this area remains highly fragmented. This paper begins to address that shortcoming by conducting an in-depth review of 36 scholarly papers in influential journals published from 2006 to 2020 to provide a comprehensive view of the literature and its approaches. This study elaborates on the concept of media work by organizing previous efforts into five subthemes, including commonalities, contested terrain, gendered profession, emerging practices, and influencing factors. Previous research has emphasized that media workers’ subjective experiences need to be explored further and more in-depth; however, if we wish to depict a more holistic but realistic picture, those experiences should be contextualized and thus linked with the specific organizational configurations and macro structures in which media work is embedded. The present review depicts how work in the media may take different meanings when addressing it through various theoretical frameworks. Our study can enrich future studies regarding the nature of media work by providing a fine-grained foundation in which researchers could understand how their given research problem(s) would be connected with the other issues that potentially impact their studies.

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New media after the Dot.com bust

Cited by 22 publications

References 21 publications

Convergence culture in the creative industries

Convergence culture in the creative industries

Evolution of Cultural Clusters in China: Comparative Study of Beijing and Shanghai

The Nature of Work in the Media Industries: A Literature Review and Future Directions

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