<i>Creative Industries</i> is a daring collection of essays that charts the noisy revolution that is transforming the production, consumption, and understanding of culture in the all-wired era. It brings together seminal essays written across traditional and new media, industry sectors, and national contexts to demonstrate that content still drives a value-neutral, knowledge economy. <br><ul><br><li>Chronicles the way mass culture is produced, packaged and circulated in a technology-enabled and globalized world</li></ul><br><p><br><ul><br><li>Draws together, in one accessible volume, seminal essays written across traditional and new media, industry sectors, and national contexts</li></ul><br><p><br><ul><br><li>Explores the subjects that have come to define the creative industries &#8211; including learning services, knowledge clusters, dot.coms, creative cities, networked incubators, the new media, and the shift from the &#8220;culture industries&#8221; to the &#8220;industries of culture&#8221; </li></ul><br><p><br><ul><br><li>Features 31 essays by leading international scholars &#8211; covering the creative industries of several fields, including book publishing, TV production, urban development, and games</li></ul><br><p><br><ul><br><li>Includes substantial editorial introductions by the editor, making this a useful, engaging, and thought-provoking collection of the very best scholarship on modern creative culture.</li></ul>