What is Wrong With the Notion of Creative Industry?: 20 Objections to the Notion of Creative Industry

Volume: 3 Number: 62 January 1, 2019
  • Ulaş Başar Gezgin
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What is Wrong With the Notion of Creative Industry?: 20 Objections to the Notion of Creative Industry

Abstract

The notion of ‘creative industries’ usually coupled with implicit or explicit neo-liberal discourse is rarely criticized on the basis of its reductionistic understanding of creativity, its untenable assumption of a crystal clear definition of creativity, misclassification of industries as creative and non-creative, and the bizarre agency problem which attributes creativity to an industry, rather than individuals especially personality differences , organizations including group and team settings as well as uses of technological tools for creative activity and cultures. Although the discourse of ‘creative industry’ usually goes in tandem with ‘cultural industry’, the use of ‘culture’ and ‘cultural’ is misleading as they usually refer to popular culture of mass production that revolve on economic indicators such as profitability, revenue, resource efficiency etc. ignoring the fact that there may be cultural differences in the way creativity is interpreted, promoted or discouraged e.g. the notions of creativity in Chinese vs. Global Western culture . Thus in this article, what is wrong about the widespread notion of ‘creative industry’ is shown through 20 objections, and a set of research papers on psychological, organizational and cultural dimensions of creativity is presented and discussed.

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January 1, 2019

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Year 2019 Volume: 3 Number: 62

APA
Gezgin, U. B. (2019). What is Wrong With the Notion of Creative Industry?: 20 Objections to the Notion of Creative Industry. Çalışma Ve Toplum, 3(62), 1737-1756. https://izlik.org/JA65LC99PG
AMA
1.Gezgin UB. What is Wrong With the Notion of Creative Industry?: 20 Objections to the Notion of Creative Industry. Çalışma ve Toplum. 2019;3(62):1737-1756. https://izlik.org/JA65LC99PG
Chicago
Gezgin, Ulaş Başar. 2019. “What Is Wrong With the Notion of Creative Industry?: 20 Objections to the Notion of Creative Industry”. Çalışma Ve Toplum 3 (62): 1737-56. https://izlik.org/JA65LC99PG.
EndNote
Gezgin UB (January 1, 2019) What is Wrong With the Notion of Creative Industry?: 20 Objections to the Notion of Creative Industry. Çalışma ve Toplum 3 62 1737–1756.
IEEE
[1]U. B. Gezgin, “What is Wrong With the Notion of Creative Industry?: 20 Objections to the Notion of Creative Industry”, Çalışma ve Toplum, vol. 3, no. 62, pp. 1737–1756, Jan. 2019, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA65LC99PG
ISNAD
Gezgin, Ulaş Başar. “What Is Wrong With the Notion of Creative Industry?: 20 Objections to the Notion of Creative Industry”. Çalışma ve Toplum 3/62 (January 1, 2019): 1737-1756. https://izlik.org/JA65LC99PG.
JAMA
1.Gezgin UB. What is Wrong With the Notion of Creative Industry?: 20 Objections to the Notion of Creative Industry. Çalışma ve Toplum. 2019;3:1737–1756.
MLA
Gezgin, Ulaş Başar. “What Is Wrong With the Notion of Creative Industry?: 20 Objections to the Notion of Creative Industry”. Çalışma Ve Toplum, vol. 3, no. 62, Jan. 2019, pp. 1737-56, https://izlik.org/JA65LC99PG.
Vancouver
1.Ulaş Başar Gezgin. What is Wrong With the Notion of Creative Industry?: 20 Objections to the Notion of Creative Industry. Çalışma ve Toplum [Internet]. 2019 Jan. 1;3(62):1737-56. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA65LC99PG

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