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Culture. --- Social structure. --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Anthropology --- Sociology --- Social institutions --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Social aspects --- Social structure --- E-books

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Entscheidungsträger aller Ebenen entdecken den Begriff der Kreativwirtschaft: Von der Wirtschafts- und Innovationspolitik über die Bildungspolitik bis zur Stadtentwicklung wird Kreativwirtschaft als Erfolgsmodell bezeichnet. Strategien der Umsetzung in die reale Praxis jedoch bleiben vage. Immer dringender wird der Wunsch nach konkreten, umsetzbaren Ansätzen. Die vorliegende Publikation versucht, eine längst nötig gewordene Übersicht über die Begrifflichkeit und die Spezifika dieses Branchenkomplexes herzustellen. Dazu analysiert sie den internationalen Diskurs, leitet Modelle ab und zieht daraus Schlüsse für die Diskussion in der Schweiz. Ein besonderes Gewicht wird auf das bislang kaum untersuchte Innovationspotential der Kreativszene und deren Dynamik für die gesamte Kreativwirtschaft gelegt. Zentral präsentiert die Publikation aktuellste empirisch-statistische Analysen zu den einzelnen Teilmärkten der Kreativwirtschaft in der Schweiz und vergleichend zu Europa. Policy makers at all levels are discovering the notion of creative industries: the music industry, literature and book market, art market, film and television industries, performing arts, design, architecture, advertising, software / computer games - from economic and innovation strategies to education policy and urban development, the creative industries are being described as a model for success. However, strategies for real, practical implementation remain vague. This publication provides a greatly needed overview of the concepts and specific characteristics of this sector. It analyzes the international discourse, presents up-to-date empirical-statistical Europe-wide analyses, derives models and draws conclusions for the current debate in Switzerland, and places special emphasis on the innovative potential of the creative scene and its dynamics for the entire creative industry.

Cultural policy. --- Cultural industries --- Culture --- Switzerland --- Industrial Management --- Industries --- Business & Economics --- Management --- Economic aspects --- Economic conditions --- Economic conditions. --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Creative industries --- Culture industries --- Social aspects

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Highlights how regional popular cultures and creative industries have become globally powerful, analyzing gender and labor issues amid differing regulatory frameworks of cultural production and piracy in Asia.

Cultural industries --- Regional disparities. --- Social aspects --- Creative industries --- Culture industries --- Culture --- Industries --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Study and teaching --- Regional disparities --- East Asia --- Northern Asia

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Clones, Fakes and Posthumans: Cultures of Replication explores cloning and related phenomena that inform each other, like twins, fakes, replica, or homogeneities, through a cultural prism. What could it mean to think of a cloning mentality? Could it be that a “cloning culture” has made biotechnological cloning desirable in the first place, and vice versa that biotechnological cloning then enforces technologies of social and cultural cloning? What does it mean to say that a culture replicates? If biotechnological cloning has to do with choice and repetitive reproduction of selected characteristics, how are those kinds of desires expressed socially, politically and culturally? Lifting the issue of cloning above the biotechnological domain, we problematize the cultural context, including modernity’s readiness to imitate and manipulate nature, and the skewed privileging of desirable socialities as a basis for exclusive replication. We also explore possible relations between a cloning mentality and a consumer society that fosters a brand-name mentality. The construction and (coercive) implementation of copy-prone technological and symbolic items are at the very heart of the consumer society and its modes of mass production as they have emerged from and seek to articulate, define, and refine modernity and modernization.

Cloning. --- Genetic engineering --- Reproduction, Asexual --- Culture --- Social change --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Social aspects --- E-books

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Sociology --- Anthropology --- Culture. --- Sociología. --- Antropología. --- América Latina. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Human beings --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Social aspects --- Primitive societies