Researching and teaching about creative industries and cultural policy at the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, SCAPVC, University of Warwick.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/ccmps/staff/david/
If you want me, I'll be at the cricket.
David Wright
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Given the Guardian best books brouhaha, here's a thing I wrote (in 2012!) about lists and literary taste. Still kind of stands up. The history bit is interesting if I say so myself 🤔
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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
And here's a link to the book it is in
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This makes me happy and incredibly sad for what we let go … for how impossible it would be to set up anything with the intellectual, pedagogic, democratic vision of the OU now www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
God bless the cultural intermediaries, I say.
And people say this platform is in decline.
No shade on the research itself which no doubt is careful and rigorous on its terms but I always find coverage of studies like this a bit depressing. As if we're only allowed beautiful things when there is a grimly utilitarian reason.
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
We conclude with reflections on what the evidence tells us. Notably, it indicates that challenging conditions of creative work are not inevitable. If states consider the creative economy important, then there are routes to supporting this work and these workers. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
I think we need to do an edgy, single-take Netflix drama, set in a school in the north of England, about the online radicalisation of Nick Robinson
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Out today, from editors Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Mikka Pyykkönen and me. The book combines cross-national writing teams and focussed case studies across Europe to examine the rhetoric and reality of creative work. A contents thread 👇 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
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This book gathers evidence and case studies from various parts of Europe and across the different sectors that comprise the creative industries, including thewww.taylorfrancis.com
The start of the twentyfirst century has brought with it a rich variety of ways in which readers can connect with one another, access texts, and make sense of w...
