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Author: Oli

  • Who’s going to do the changing? Obama’s Victory and the Creative Class

    First of all, congratulations to Barack, he certainly talks the talks, now lets see if he really can ‘change’ America – I think we all know what that would entail. I wanted to make a quick observation though. Watching the news this morning and seeing the cheering Obama supporters, one…

  • Interlude 2: The Wire and the Event

    I know that I probably watch too much TV, in fact, I once watched the whole first series of 24 in 18 hours, but when it comes to The Wire, I don’t think I could ever watch too much of it. The genre of cop drama/crime thriller has never been…

  • Interlude 1: The futility of words

    Words are peculiar things. They are the building blocks of verbal language, yet are woefully inadequate at their role of communicating what we are thinking. The classic book by Albert Mehrabian in 1971, ‘Silent Messages’ says that only 7-10 percent of our communication is through verbal language so the spoken…

  • Pitching up: Freelancers in the Creative Industries

    There remain very few industrial sectors in which freelancers do not operate, yet they remain peculiarly absent from the mainstream academic literature (when it does, it exists sporadically). Focusing on, and researching these freelancers holds particular relevance to the creative industries, as much of the work undertaken is project-based, with…

  • Underground Music

    The London Underground system, known as ‘the Tube’ is often held up as the quintessential underground network map as it navigates the city dwellers to and from their starting point and destination with ease, in contrast to the complex and non-grid-lined road layout of the above ground roads (Vertesi, 2008).…

  • Creative Industries: An Oxymoron?

    It will be of little surprise to the majority of readers that the creative industries have become big business – they are the focus of a multitude of local, city, region and national governments’ attempts to redevelop, regenerate and reignite growth and development in their ‘place’. But their benefit and…