scholarly journals Intern Labour as Regenerative Precarisation in the Cultural and Creative Industries

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Moody
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Labour Practice ◽  
Market Practice ◽  
Cultural And Creative Industries ◽  
Work And Life

Internships are a precarious labour practice often driven by a combination of labour market competition, desirable work, employer advantages and fictional expectations. This article is based on an empirical study of intern labour in the Cultural and Creative Industries in Ireland. The data consists of a survey of workers and interns, and interviews with interns past and present. Through approaching internships as a form of precarisation, and intern labour through the lens of ‘fictional expectations’, this article provides an analysis of intern labour as a form of regenerative precarisation through the self-reinforcing tendencies of action, subjectivity, discursive constructs and social structures. The labour market practice of interning creates discursive, normative and structural patterns of precarisation. These patterns in turn shape subjective and intersubjective expectations of work and life, impacting on the actions that individuals make and thus acting as drivers of further precarisation.

scholarly journals Promoting cultural production in Serbia

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (47) ◽  
pp. 137-152
Author(s):  
Mirjana Kovačević
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Support Programs ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Economic Gain ◽  
The Future ◽  
Cultural And Creative Industries

The paper presents the empirical study which aims to describe problems encountered by actors in the cultural and creative industries during the realization of ideas and activities in a modern digital environment. The results pointed out a discrepancy in the use of modern technology when it comes to the creation, availability and use of products of culture and creativity, and the ways they are communicated and promoted. Highlighting the problems that this sector faces, besides the knowledge of economic gain and overflows to other areas of the economy and society, should stimulate the interest of the competent institutions and decision-makers in finding more productive support programs for Serbian cultural and creative production in the future.

scholarly journals Impact of Industry 4.0 on Occupations and Employment in Turkey

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beyza Sumer
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Smart Vehicles ◽  
Routine Tasks ◽  
Employment Generation ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Cultural And Creative Industries ◽  
New Jobs

New technologies of this age is widely referred as Industry 4.0. The rapid increase in digitalization, robotization, and intelligent automation has great impact on markets, including the labour market. Technological changes destroy some jobs while generating new jobs and occupations. Replacement of jobs by robots, smart vehicles, digitalized and connected processes will have great impact on labour market resulting in mass unemployment. This paper aims to highlight prospective changes in occupations and job losses due to new technologies in Turkey. Following the introduction part, the paper proceeds to literature review about the effect of new technologies on jobs, skills, tasks, occupations, and employment. In the next part, a time analysis of occupations in Turkey takes place in order to bring out the occupations which might be substituted by Industry 4.0, and thus might result in mass unemployment. A framework for susbstitutable and complementable occupations in Turkey has been constituted in this part, too. In the concluding remarks, it has been put forward that there will be considerable losses in some occupational categories with routine tasks, both in manual and cognitive jobs. In some other jobs, new technologies have a complementing effect which might lead to employment generation. It has been suggested that Turkey can get the better of negative impacts of Industry 4.0 by fully analysing the issue, improving training and skills upgrading, and promoting jobs in technology and creativity related new fields such as cultural and creative industries.

The entrepreneur of the self beyond Foucault’s neoliberal homo oeconomicus

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 493-511
Author(s):  
Tim Christiaens
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
The Self ◽  
Austrian School ◽  
Homo Oeconomicus ◽  
Austrian School Of Economics ◽  
Joseph Schumpeter

In his lectures on neoliberalism, Michel Foucault argues that neoliberalism produces subjects as ‘entrepreneurs of themselves’. He bases this claim on Gary Becker’s conception of the utility-maximizing agent who solely acts upon cost/benefit-calculations. Not all neoliberalized subjects, however, are encouraged to maximize their utility through mere calculation. This article argues that Foucault’s description of neoliberal subjectivity obscures a non-calculative, more audacious side to neoliberal subjectivity. Precarious workers in the creative industries, for example, are encouraged not merely to rationally manage their human capital, but also to take a leap of faith to acquire unpredictable successes. It is this latter risk-loving, extra-calculative side to neoliberal subjectivity that economists usually designate as ‘entrepreneurial’. By confronting Foucault with the theories of entrepreneurship of the Austrian School of Economics, Frank Knight, and Joseph Schumpeter, the Foucauldian analytical framework is enriched. Neoliberal subjectivation is not the monolithic promotion of utility-maximizing agents, but the generation of a multiplicity of modes for entrepreneurs to relate to oneself and the market.

scholarly journals Drag Performers’ Perspectives on the Mainstreaming of British Drag: Towards a Sociology of Contemporary Drag

Sociology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 003803852110083
Author(s):  
Mark McCormack ◽  
Liam Wignall
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Public Data ◽  
Career Opportunity ◽  
Cultural And Creative Industries ◽  
British Culture ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Inductive Analysis

Drag performance has entered mainstream British culture and is gaining unprecedented appreciation and recognition, yet no sociological accounts of this transformation exist. Using an inductive analysis of in-depth interviews with 25 drag performers, alongside netnography of media and other public data, this article develops a sociological understanding of the mainstreaming of drag. There are two clear reasons for the success of drag. First, there is a pull towards drag: it is now seen as a viable career opportunity where performers receive fame rather than social stigma in a more inclusive social zeitgeist, even though the reality is more complex. Second, there is a push away from other creative and performing arts because heteronormative perspectives persist through typecasting and a continued professional stigma associated with drag. In calling for a sociology of drag, future avenues for research on contemporary drag are discussed, alongside the need for the sociology of cultural and creative industries to incorporate sexuality as both a subject and analytic lens.

How Children Appropriate Themes they Find in Media Products

2003 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-96
Author(s):  
Michael Charlton
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
The Self ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Everyday Interaction ◽  
Observation Protocols

Norman Holland theorizes that people seek themes in media which affect them personally and are congruent with topics in their own life's situation. Yet while doing so, individuals try to make sure that they are not confronted with issues that they do not wish to deal with or are emotionally draining. Michail Bakhtin makes similar assertions in his Theory of Appropriation through his research on the influence that language has on the ideas of being to be true to oneself (“ownness”) and to becoming a stranger to oneself (“otherness”). An empirical study of these hypotheses is supported through a collection of 80 observation protocols of pre-schoolers made during their everyday interaction with different forms of media (picture books, cassette tapes, made for TV-movies). Both claim that the connection between personal life topics and media themes as well as the self-preserving reception process, were confirmed in this study.

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