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November 4, 2009 |
China's Creative Industries: Copyright, Social Network Markets and the Business of Culture in a Digital Age
Location: SC&I Faculty Lounge
“China's Creative Industries: Copyright, Social Network Markets and the Business of Culture in a Digital Age”BY Dr. Lucy Montgomery Wednesday, November 4,2009 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. SC&I Faculty Lounge This presentation explores the extent to which new technologies, globalization and higher levels of connectivity are re-defining relationships between ‘producers’ and ‘consumers’ in 21st century China. Social network markets and consumer-generated content have become important forces in the production and commercialization of cultural commodities. Spaces between policy and practice are functioning as key sites for the generation of new knowledge and the evolution of new approaches to business. Dr. Montgomery's presentation, based on her upcoming book by the same name, will examine the shift from state-driven cultural production and state mediated consumption, towards greater consumer agency and the incorporation of entrepreneurial habits into daily life by examining three of China’s ‘creative industries:’ film, music & fashion. Dr. Lucy Montgomery is a Research Fellow of the Australian Research Council funded Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) and convener of the CCI’s London research node, based at City University London. Lucy received her Ph.D. in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia in 2007. Lucy’s work has been published in the International Journal of Cultural Studies, the Journal of Creative Industries, the Chinese Journal of Communication and Industry and Innovation. In 2008, Lucy acted as guest editor for the Chinese Journal of Communications on the special issue Internationalising the Creative Industries, with John Hartley. She is the author of China’s Creative Industries: Copyright, Social Network Markets and the Business of Culture in a Digital Age, scheduled for publication by Edward Elgar in early 2010. She is also a visiting fellow at the University of London’s Birkbeck Centre for Innovation Management and the University of Westminster’s China Media Centre. |
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