TS Cultural Industries

Uitgebreide vaknaam	Theory Seminar Cultural Industries
Leerdoelen	1. To name, explain and critique key theoretical concepts pertaining to cultural and creative labour in the digital age. 2. To design and construct an essay that engages with theoretical concepts discussed during the course. 3. To give an oral presentation on a given week’s theme, based on required and additional readings. 4. To generate mindmaps displaying the main arguments and ideas of an assigned theoretical text. 5. To provide feedback on other student’s work.
Omschrijving	“Creative labor occupies a highly contradictory position in modern, global, “knowledgebased” economies. On the one hand, companies have to balance their insatiable need for a stream of innovative ideas with the equally strong imperative to gain control over intellectual property and manage a creative workforce. On the other, creative workers have to find a balance between the urge for self-expression and recognition and the need to earn a living. The interplay between these antagonistic imperatives produces a complex set of relations, encompassing a variety of forms both of collusion and of conflict between managers, clients, and workers, with each action provoking a counterreaction in a dynamic movement that resembles an elaborate minuet, in which some steps follow formal conventions but new moves are constantly being invented.” (Ursala Huws, Labor in the Global Digital Economy, p. 101). In this course, we will examine the ‘elaborate minuet’ of working in the cultual industries through the concepts of ‘alienation’, ‘autonomy’, ‘self-realisation’, ‘emotional/affective labour’, and ‘self-exploitation’. We will pay particular attention to the following questions: - What are the conditions and experiences of workers in the cultural industries? - How are tensions between commerce and creativity experienced and expressed? - What is ‘good’ work and how can we find meaning in work? This course will lay the theoretical foundations for the empirical study of cultural and creative labour in the follow-up Research Seminar.
Uren per week	3
Onderwijsvorm	werkcollege
Toetsvorm	presentatie, schriftelijke opdracht(en)
Vaksoort	bachelor
Coördinator	R. Prey, PhD.
Docent(en)	R. Prey, PhD.
Verplichte literatuur	Titel Auteur ISBN Prijs Creative labour: Media work in three cultural industries. Hesmondhalgh, D., & Baker, S. 0415572606
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Opmerkingen
Opgenomen in	Opleiding Jaar Periode Type Ba Media Studies  (Cultural Industries) 2 semester II a verplicht Ba Media Studies  (Pre-master Media Creation and Innovation) 3 semester II a verplicht