New Media Industry Development: Regions, Networks and Hierarchies - Some Policy Implications

Bäcklund, Ann-Katrin; Sandberg, Åke

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“…Additionally, despite the fact that the cluster phenomenon has recently caught the imagination and excitement of policy makers, cluster policies are hampered by a lack of empirical evidence, with many studies into the relationship between clusters and performance based on case studies (Swann, Prevezer, and Stout 1998;Backlund and Sandberg 2002;Cooke 2002Cooke , 2003Hallencreutz and Lundequist 2003). For those empirical studies available, investigations into performance were carried out at three levels as indicated in Table 1, i.e.…”

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Industrial clusters, shared resources and firm performance

Geng

2012

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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Industrial clusters, shared resources and firm performance

Geng

2012

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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“…Some insights from work on the new economy have been drawn upon to facilitate this analysis. Focusing on the working lives of people and the wider processes that shape development facilitates a critical analysis of urban and regional development and avoids the risk of capture by the boosterism of supportive agencies (Backlund and Sandberg 2002). In this case, gender divisions, the precarious position of and key role played by freelancers, and the possible contradictions between growth and learning have been highlighted.…”

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“…The term new media refers to the "range of interactive digital products and services which offer new ways to trade, market, educate and entertain, delivered through the Internet, CD ROM, DVD, interactive TV and intranets" (Copeland 2000, 7; see also Backlund and Sandberg 2002;Batt, Christopherson, Rightor, and Van Jaarsveld 2001;Pratt 2000). Digitalization allows the fusion of different media formats (sound, graphics, video animation) and provides the technical foundations for unifying or defining the sector, which otherwise is quite diverse.…”

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Understanding Social and Spatial Divisions in the New Economy: New Media Clusters and the Digital Divide

Perrons¹

2008

Handbook of Research on Innovation and Clusters

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Economic inequality is increasing but has been sidelined in some of the recent debates in urban and regional studies. This article outlines a holistic framework for economic geography, which focuses on understanding social and spatial divisions, by drawing on economists' ideas about the new economy and feminist perspectives on social reproduction. The framework is illustrated with reference to the emerging new media cluster in Brighton and Hove, which, as a consequence, emerges less as a new technology cluster and more as a reflection of increasing social divisions in the new economy.

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“…Such imbalances are worrying if only because they may well have serious implications for users and consumers of products and services, which have been designed by (predominantly) men, and thus arguably for men (Catherine Beavis 1998;Leslie Haddon 1999;Ann-Katrin Bäcklund and Å ke Sandberg 1999). However, addressing this situation is important not only for consumers, but for those working there too.…”

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Editors' introduction: gender and the information society

Kurian

Munshi²

2003

Feminist Media Studies

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The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is being held this year in Geneva, with a follow-up conference in Tunisia in 2005. Under the aegis of the United Nations, the summit addresses issues that are of immediate relevance to scholars in the field of communication, including the "new world order" created by global flows of information, the impact of information technology (IT) on the First World-Third World configuration, the information gap and its effects on practices of democratic governance and civil society formations, and numerous other related topics.Given this timely consideration of the role and place of IT in our lives, we have sought to identify the various ways in which gender is implicated in this brave new world, using the criticism and commentary section to highlight gender as a crucial variable in this debate. Too often discussions of such global topics are enveloped by wide-ranging and global policy concerns, where such a focus tends to ignore the real and material effects that policy has on the lives of women and men. Therefore, we want to highlight the ways in which gender is implicated in both information technology processes and in the access to and use of IT. In other words, through a focus on gender, we want to render visible the opportunities and challenges afforded by the development of the Information Society and explore the ways in which the rhetoric of empowerment masks the perpetuation of existing gender hierarchies.The topic generated a lot of interest and elucidated a broad array of experiences from across the globe. Whether assessing women's access to technology or the ways in which information systems are mobilised to "develop" the South, a unifying theme is that of uneven development. Even those essays that underscore the beneficial aspects of IT include a cautionary note on the blind spots that emerge when the utopic promise of the technology is materialised. Together the essays outline the challenges feminist scholars face as they participate in discussions of democratic governance in Information Society, especially in the realm of universal and equitable access.Moulding the literature on the digital divide to account for women as subjects and objects of IT discourses, Leda Cooks and Kirsten Isgro ask questions about the empowerment rhetoric focused on information and communication technology (ICT), gender and development which emanates from a First World perspective. They suggest that self-conscious reflexivity about the relationship between capital and technology could provoke changes in First World practices and not simply shift the emphasis onto a more informed and inclusive ICT strategy for the developing world.Following this theoretical roadmap is a series of essays that chart the multifarGender theorists working within the area of computer-mediated communication (CMC) have both celebrated and decried the advent of information and com-

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New Media Industry Development: Regions, Networks and Hierarchies - Some Policy Implications

Cited by 17 publications

References 2 publications

Industrial clusters, shared resources and firm performance

Industrial clusters, shared resources and firm performance

Understanding Social and Spatial Divisions in the New Economy: New Media Clusters and the Digital Divide

Editors' introduction: gender and the information society

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