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Technology and Creativity : Production, Mediation and Evaluation in the Digital Age
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- English
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- Cham : Palgrave Macmillan US, 2019
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- 1 online resource (303 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9783030175665, 3030175669, 9783030175658, 9783030175658
- OCLC
- on1109788800
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- Intro; Preface; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Technology and Creativity: Production, Mediation and Evaluation in the Digital Age; Introduction; Creative Industries: Creativity at the Center; The Volume; References; 2 Innovators' Acts of Framing and Audiences' Structural Characteristics in Novelty Recognition; Introduction; Novelty and the Act of Framing; Novelty and Internal/External Audiences; Novelty and Audience Evaluative Heterogeneity; Discussion; Implications for Theory; Implications for Practice
- Novelty Framing and Social Audiences in the Era of DigitalizationConclusion; References; 3 The Alchemy of Painting: How the Technology of Oil Paint Transmuted Art; Technology in the Creative Industries; Oil Paint: Affordances; Van Eyck: Art Mirrors Reality; Venice: Oil, Canvass and a Looser Brush; Discussion; References; 4 Industry or Field? The Value of the Field Construct to Study Digital Creative Industries; Introduction; The Conceptualization of Creative Industries as 'Industries'; Digital Technologies and the Blurring of Creative Industries' Boundaries and Roles
- The Value of the Field Construct for Studying Creative Industries and Digital TechnologiesField Boundaries Are Defined Relationally Around Activities or Practices; Actors' Positions Are Defined Relationally Vis-à-Vis Each Other; Field Actors Are Linked by Multiple Symbolic and Material Relations; Concluding Remarks; Contributions and Future Research; References; 5 The Internet as Liberating Space for the Visual Arts: Political Hopes and Sociological Realities; Introduction; Art and the Internet: A Hopeful Synergy to Evade Convention?; The Sociological Entanglement of the Visual Arts
- The Political Dimension of Art in Fostering Critical, Democratic DialoguesLiberating Promises of the Internet; Artnode and the Dream of Cyberspace as "Other"; The Dream of a Transformative "Free Space" for Artists and Their Art; The Dream of an Antagonist Space Reinforcing "Critical Voices"; Discussion: What Critical Potential Could We Hope for?; Conclusion; Literature; 6 Evaluation and Producers' Attention to Ratings in the Chocolate Confectionery Markets; Introduction; Behind the Chocolate Bars: Rating System and Quality Standards
- Publicisation of a Tasting Procedure to Underpin Expert EvaluationOpposition to Sweetness, Fat and Thickness: Genesis and Maintenance of a Single Set of Quality Standards; Producers' Attention to the Guide: Disputed, Dispensable and Malleable Ratings; Denigration of a Procedure; Withdrawal After a Low Rating; Working to Transform the Ratings: Used, but Detached from Their Benchmark; Conclusion; Bibliography; 7 Alone or in Concert? Creative Entrepreneurs and the Role of Multiple Institutional Logics in Crowdfunding Pitches; Introduction; Theoretical Orientation