Suggested Introductory Readings:
Websites:
http://www.networkcultures.org/weblog/archives/2008/01/out_now_mycreat.html
http://www.culturalcommons.org/announce.cfm
Creative Industries 2008: The 50 City Report presents detailed analysis of arts-related businesses, institutions, and organizations in the country’s 50 most-populated cities: http://www.artsusa.org/information_services/research/services/creative_industries/default.asp
PDF-files:
My Creativity Reader
A Critique of Creative Industries
edited by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter
Listservs:
Americans for the Arts, Cultural Policy Listserv
Creative Economy Online, News and research on creative industries, innovation, and society
Readings:
Toby Miller
"'Drowning In Information and Starving For Knowledge:' 21st Century Scholarly Publishing"
Toby Miller
(International Journal of Communication 1 (2007), Feature 123-135)
PDF-file
Kate Oakley
"Any Answer as Long as It's Right: Evidence-Based Cultural Policymaking"
PDF-file
"Getting out of place: the mobile creative class takes
on the local.
A UK Perspective on Florida’s Creative Class"
PDF-file
Andrew Ross
"Nice Work if You Can Get It: The Mercurial Career of Creative Industries Policy"
Andrew Ross
(excerpted from My Creativity Reader, A Critique of Creative Industries,
edited by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter, 2007, pages 17-40)
PDF-file
"Created in China, The great new leap forward"
Michael Keane
(Introduction and chapter 1)
PDF-file
Dick Hebdige and Lisa Parks
"Unpredictable Outcomes: A Reflection After Some Years of Debates on Creativity and Creative Industries"
Marion Von Oston
(excerpted from My Creativity Reader, A Critique of Creative Industries,
edited by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter, 2007, pages 49-58)
PDF-file
"Even Unto Death: Improvisation, Edging and Enframement"
Dick Hebdige
(Critical Inquiry, winter 2000)
PDF-file
Foreword to "UCIRA ‘State of the Arts' conference proceedings" at UC Santa Barbara
Kim Yasuda and Dick Hebdige
(May 19-20, 2006, SB)
PDF-file
"Thinking through Making: The Burden of Incompletion"
Dick Hebdige
in ibid (2006)
PDF-file
Introduction, "What do you mean 'cell phone culture'?!"
Gerard Goggin
(in "Cell Phone Culture, Mobile Technology in Everyday Life," London: Routledge, 2006)
PDF-file
"'Everyone is creative': artists as pioneers of the new economy?"
Angela McRobbie
(chapter 11 in "Contemporary Culture and Everyday Life"
Tony Bennett and Elizabeth B. Silva, London, 2004)
PDF-file
"Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization"
A. Aneesh
Duke University Press, 2006
(selection, pp 1-13, 67-99)
PDF-file
"Technological Zones"
Andrew Barry
(in "Political Machines, Governing a Technological Society,"
London and New York: Athelone Press, 2001, pp 37-61)
PDF-file
"Postwar Footprints"
Lisa Parks
(in "B-Zone: Political Typographies"
Antonio Tapis Fundacio, pp 35-57)
PDF-file
Websites:
http://www.ucira.ucsb.edu/ContainerProjects/index.html
http://www.ucira.ucsb.edu/ContainerProjects/Opencontainer.html
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/nov/06/beware-box/
Angela McRobbie
"7.1 Ephemera, Theory & Politics in Organization"
(in particular
"Life Within and Against Work: Affective Labor, Feminist Critique, and Post-Fordist Politics"
Kathi Weeks)
PDF-file
"A Grammar of the Multitude, For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life"
Paolo Virno
PDF-file
Richard Maxwell
"Ecological Ethics and Media Technology"
PDF-file
"Ecological Ethics: An Introduction" (chapters 2, 5, and 12)
Patrick Curry
PDF-file
Websites:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/toxics/electronics
http://www.etoxics.org/site/PageServer?pagename=svtc_electronic_industry_overview
Yuezhi Zhao
"Surprises loom. An uncensored Chinese media might illuminate a citizenry that is both anti-Western and anti-capitalist"
Yuezhi Zhao
PDF-file
"Whose Hero? The 'Spirit' and 'Structure' of a Made-in-China Global Blockbuster"
Yuezhi Zhao
PDF-file
"China And Global Capital: The Cultural Dimension"
Yuezhi Zao
("The Empire Re-Loaded", Socialist Register, 2005)
PDF-file
Paula Chakravartty
"Revisiting the History of Global Communication
and Media Policy,"
excerpted from Media Policy and Globalization, Chakravartty & Sarikakis (2006 EUP)
PDF-file
"Governance Without Politics: Civil Society, Development and the Postcolonial State"
2007. International Journal of Communication. 1:297-317.
Website
PDF-file
"Telecom, national development and the Indian state: a postcolonial critique"
2004. Media, Culture & Society. 26(2): 227-249
Website
PDF-file
John Hartley
http://cultural-science.org/
"From the Consciousness Industry to Creative Industries: Consumer-created Content, Social Network Markets, and the Growth of Knowledge"
Website
PDF-file
"The Future is an Open Future": Cultural Studies at the End of the "Long Twentieth Century" and the Beginning of the "Chinese Century."
Website
PDF-file