Cultural Industries Flashcards
Media and State Power
Examination of the way that the U.S. framed Biden administration and COVID 19 using time of day, gospel music and spotlight on people of colour
Used as a communicative power for Biden administration
Demonstrates how media creates a public sphere
Cultural Industries (Throsby)
- They require some input of human creativity in their production
- They are vehicles for symbolic messages to those who consume them, i.e., they are more than simply utilitarian, insofar as they serve in addition some larger communicative purpose; and
- They contain, at least potentially, some intellectual property that is attributable to the individual or group producing the good or service
Cultural Industries Include (Throsby)
- Cultural workers
- Commercial (for-profit) firms
- Not-for-profit firms
- Public cultural institutions
- Education and training institutions
- Government agencies and ministries
- International organizations
- Consumer and consumer organizations
Government involved in Regulation of Cultural Industries (Throsby)
- Arts/culture ministry
- Finance/treasury
- Industrial development
- Labour
- Trade
- Education
- Urban/regional development
- Environment
- Information Technology
- Legal affairs
- Social Welfare
Finance/Treasury (Regulation of the cultural industries)
A lot of the public good part of cultural industries is subsidized
Ex: tax breaks to film production
Industrial Development (Regulation of the cultural industries)
A huge sector/economic power that comes in developing large cultural industries
Labour (Regulation of the cultural industries)
A lot of workers in cultural industries
Trade (Regulation of the cultural industries)
A lot of friction around exports of cultural goods
Education (Regulation of the cultural industries)
Regulation of cultural industries as they relate to education within the prominence of government
Urban/regional development (Regulation of the cultural industries)
Excitement in the neighbourhood often done through festivals
Environment (Regulation of the cultural industries)
Environmental regulations
Information Technology (Regulation of the cultural industries)
Role of the internet & platform in today’s cultural economies
Legal affairs (Regulation of the cultural industries)
Copyright & Intellectual property
Social Welfare (Regulation of the cultural industries)
Social welfare agencies can have a stake in how cultural industries are regulated
Culture Industry
Recognizes culture has an economic function that can be measured on the free market
