CRI 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-4: Italian Renaissance Painting, Raymond Williams, Homo Economicus
24 Nov 2017
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Requires human creativity, vehicles for symbolic messages, that is they are carriers for meaning, and last of all they contain some intellectual property that belongs to individual/group. Some aspects may be regarded as frivolous/not serious business, they contribute to + support host of other economic activities and entire industries. Many emerging local versions of ci around world (ex: nollywood film scene in nigeria) Different areas of ci are still similar bc they all create symbolic products. Ci idea combines-but then radically transforms two older terms: creative arts and cultural industries. Look at ci through economic data, ci markets and creative labour. Economic data tells us about scale of ci such as estimates of how many jobs and businesses there are in. Ci + how productive they are, markets for creative products/services characterized by uncertainty due to fluctuating tastes/technological changes, etc, and studying creative workers tells us what creative ppl do on daily basis.
