We propose a new definition of the creative industries in terms of social network markets. The current definition of the creative industries is based on an industrial classification that proceeds in terms of the creative nature of inputs and the intellectual property nature of outputs. We propose, instead, a new market-based definition in terms of the extent to which both demand and supply operate in complex social networks. We review and critique the standard creative industries definitions and explain why we believe a market-based social network definition offers an analytic advance.
Major museums worldwide are starting to use social media such as blogs, podcasts and online video to encourage users to participate in their programs.
This book chapter was published in Theorizing digital cultural heritage: a critical discourse, edited by Fiona Cameron and Sarah Kenderdine, MIT press, 2007.
Despite the proliferation of web-based news and information services, there remains a lack of online destinations from which to obtain reliable and authoritative cultural knowledge. In many countries, such knowledge is provided by cultural institutions such as museums and libraries. Recent discussion suggests that social media – including blogs, wikis and digital stories – may provide a creative solution to the ongoing interaction between cultural institutions and communities of interest.
Collections, audiences, distribution and access will continue to be the central concerns, writes ANGELINA RUSSO.
Social media enable cultural participants to both explore images of themselves and distribute those images across broad online social networks.
Watkins, J., (2007) ‘Social Media, Participatory Design and Cultural Engagement’. OzCHI Conference, Adelaide, November 2007.
Watkins, J. and Russo, A., (2007) ‘Participatory Design and Co-creativity in Cultural Institutions’. Museums Australia Conference, Canberra, May 2007. http://www.museumsaustralia.org.au/
Watkins, J. and Russo, A., (2007) ‘Cultural Institutions, Co-creativity and Communities of Interest’, in Schuler, D. (ed.), Online Communities and Social Computing, HCII 2007, LNCS 4564, pp. 212–221.
Coates, J. Suzor, N. and Fitzgerald, A., Legal Aspects of Web 2.0 Activities, report prepared for Smart Service Queensland, July 2007 available at http://www.ip.qut.edu.au/files/Queensland%20Government%20Report%20-%20re...
Black, P., Delaney, H. and Fitzgerald, B., ‘Legal Issues for Wikis: The Challenge of User-generated and Peer-produced Knowledge, Content and Culture’ (2007) 14(1) eLaw Journal 245-282