John Hartley & Wen Wen 
Creative Economy and Culture 
Challenges, Changes and Futures for the Creative Industries

‘The most ambitious, thoughtful and internationally aware assessment to date of the creative economy. Defining creativity as the production of newness in complex, adaptive systems, the authors make the case that together the creative economy, along with other cultural outputs, represent a planet-wide innovation capability which marks an epochal turn in human affairs.’


– Ian Hargreaves, CBE, Professor of Digital Economy, Cardiff University



Creativity, new ideas and innovation – and with them the growth of knowledge – have spilled out of the lab, studio and factory into the street, scene, and social media. Now, everyday life is productive, everyone is creative, and new ideas can come from anywhere around the world.  



Instead of confining cultural expression to talented artists and expert professionals, this book investigates creative new ideas from
everyone. Instead of confining the ‘creative industries’ to one sector of the economy and one type of productivity, this book extends the idea of creative innovation to
everything. Instead of confining the growth of knowledge to wealthy countries or markets, this book looks for it in developing and emergent countries, everywhere.



The productivity of creativity can now be seen as a global phenomenon. It demands a systems-based and dynamic mode of explanation.
Creative Economy and Culture pursues the conceptual, historical, practical, critical and educational issues and implications. It looks at conceptual challenges, the forces and dynamics of change, and prospects for the future of creative work at planetary scale.



It is essential reading for upper level students and researchers of the creative and cultural industries across media and cultural studies, communication and sociology.

İçerik tablosu

PART I: THE CHALLENGE

Economy + Culture + Technology = Newness

The Big Picture – Spheres Enveloping Spheres

The Three Bigs – ′Everyone′, ′Everything′, ′Everywhere′

The Creative Industries ′Moment′

Back to First Principles

Creative Industries to Creative Economy

PART II: FORCES AND DYNAMICS OF CHANGE: THE THREE BIGS IN ACTION

Technology

Economy: Makers

Economy: Scenes

Geography: BRICS

Geography: MINT, etc.

PART III: FUTURE-FORMING (WITH THREE BUTS)

‘Ceci Tuera Cela’

The Three Buts

Future-forming

Yazar hakkında

Henry is Senior Lecturer and Director of International at the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts in the Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University. He has a Ph D in creative industries from Queensland University of Technology and MA in simultaneous interpreting from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Henry worked at China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong for ten years and was Executive Director of its Centre for International Courses and Programs before joining Curtin University in 2013. His research covers social media, user productivity and young people in China and has been published in the Chinese Journal of Communication and Cultural Science Journal.