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The political economy of

‘creative industries’

Hye-Kyung Lee

Advanced Reading for Grad

Professor: Nita

Yue Lei, Jingxiang Ma, Xinger Chen

10/03/2020

Warm Up Questions

Warm Up

What is creative industries?

Why the author gave amount of references?

what's your favourite part in creative industries, such as advertising, architecture, art, design, fashion, film, and music?

Rhetorical overview

Rhetorical overview

Topic: Creative Industry

Source/field: SAGE Journals

Genre: Research Paper

Rhetorical overview

Rhetorical overview

Author: Hye-Kyung Lee

( King's College London, UK)

Audience: Professors, students, leaders, employees.

Purpose: To inform the audience to understand better cultural creativity's economic characteristics and social consequences.

summary

The discourse of “creative industries” has been an important addition to cultural policy narrative today. There are two parts that are discussed in this article. First, the radical potential of the ‘centrality of human labour’ in the discourse and second, creativity’s economic and social consequences, ‘labour irreplaceability’ and ‘diversity’.

Capturing creativity: between labour and capital.

sturucture

Creativity is an input in the production process, which indicates a new economic regulation social model, the form of creativity forms intellectual property rights, workers are personalized, and the state interferes with the labor market by investing in skills.

Creativity as labour:

between productivity and diversity

title

The procutivity of labour is irreplaceability because the arts of artists reflected their particular and special creativity.

Structure & Content

Structure & Content

Part 1

How is the paper structured and is the information organized?

In the Abstract part of this paper the author introduces that this paper focuses on the creative industry, and mainly discusses that human creativity is the core of creating economic.

The main content of the article is divided into the following two parts. The first part is mainly about the creativity in labor and capital. The second part focuses on the connection between creativity and diversity.

How does the author address the question?

The author raises a question or concept. The author then solves the problem or explains the concept below.

(P1080 the first sentence of the second paragraph)

(P1082 the first sentence of the second paragraph)

Does the author uses specific types of evidence? Is it convincing?

Eg: NESTA is the UK's largest non-governmental organization supporting the development of scientific and technological innovation.(P1080, line 5 from paragraph 2)

(P1079 As the British government's...)

(P1082 Adam Smith is known as the father of economics. John Stuart Mill is a famous British philosopher and political economist)

Is the conclusion strong?

(P1080 The approach I am taking...)

(P1080 the determining feature of the creative...)

(P1080 creativity in both the artistic and...)

(P1082 but what is in common...)

In the conclusion of the article, the author points out that society should pay more attention to the status of creative industries, and creativity goes beyond the scope of economic framework to some extent.The fourth industrial revolution focused on using artificial intelligence to replace serviceable labor.

Select striking quotations and explain the

rationale for making the decision.

On the other hand, there are numerous artists

whose earnings are very low. Each of them

may possess a unique creativity that can produce

distinct artworks, however, this would not turn

into financial gain unless the value of their

labour is socially recognized, and there are consumers who are willing to pay for it

(Lee, 2017).

Part 2

Vincent van Gogh

Make connections with other reading/context/additional/ information/experiences.

The Museum of of Modern Art

Linguistic analysis: Overview

Linguistic analysis

  • Professional vocabulary and tone, this tone means author’s attitudes are clear, concise, confident

“It is unsurprising (adj) to find that the creative industries discourse is” (p.1)

“What is ironic (adj) is that this idea is rather asocial” (p.5)

  • Some idiomatic/ figurative expressions/ euphemisms

Tacit (adj) knowledge (n) : is the kind of knowledge that is difficult to transfer to another person by means of writing it down or verbalizing it.

Glowing (adj) academic (n): human capital or intellectual capital is really important and brilliant

This makes Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of ‘social capital’ somewhat awkwardly (adv) positioned.

  • Business terms: (NESTA) National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts
  • Academic Words: tailored (adj) creativity (n) ( tailored to clients’ demands)

Corpus & Lexical Bundles

Corpus

Corpus:

Pseudo (adj) : not genuine; spurious or sham.

Intellectual (n) : a work or invention that is the result of

creativity, such as intellectual property (IP).

Creativity (n) : the use of the imagination or original ideas,

especially in the production of an artistic work.

Parameter (n) : a quantity whose value is selected for the particular circumstances and in relation to which other variable quantities

may be expressed.

Collocation:

Job security (n) : the state of having a job that is secure and from

which one is unlikely to be dismissed.

Social welfare (n): a social welfare system offers assistance to

individuals and families in need.

Lexical Bundles:

On one hand,.... on the other,...... (p.1)

Not only…..but also…..(p.1)

Be part of (p.2)

With this interpretation in mind (p.3)

On surface (p. 5)

Figurative Language:

“ Yet, such democratic potential is denied as the creativity would be (re)defined by employers, not workers themselves, and, therefore, would ultimately remain a flexible commodity.”

Figurative

“This discourse produces an economic and business narrative that effaces ‘labor’.”

Metacognitive reflections

Questions & REference

  • Previewed for structure, gist
  • Used Collins Dictionary for vocabulary/idoms
  • Annotated article
  • Discussed questions with team members

Discussion Questions

Discussion Questions

  • What’s the difference between “creativity as labour” and creative labour?

  • Why human labour cannot really be classified as capital?

REference

Rreference

Banks, M, Hesmondhalgh, D (2009) Looking for

work in creative industries policy.

International Journal of Cultural Policy 15(4):

415–430.

Lee, Hye-Kyung. "The Political Economy of

‘creative Industries’." Media, Culture &

Society 39.7 (2017): 1078-088.

What’s the difference between “creativity as labour” and creative labour?

Why human labour cannot really be classified as capital?

Thank YOU

Q&A

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