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Cultural Industry
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Communication
Undergraduate 1
02/11/2012

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Since the Renaisannce -and especially since Romantic movement of 19th century-there have been a widespread tendency to think of art as being one of the highest form of human creativity.
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The inventon of stories ,songs,poems and so on involves a particular type of creativity-the manupulation of symbols for the purposes of entertainment ,information even enlightenment.The author of the article interests in symbol creators which derives from a sense that symbolic creativity can enrich people's lives,even though it often doesn't 
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The importance of symbolic creativity helps to explain that the main focus is on patterns of change/continuity in the text or how audiences understand the text. Example: all writers given their limited time and energy must make decision about where to concentrate their attention rather than focusing on the text themselves and then working backward from their to theie industries. 
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Economic role of cultural production is growing and providing more wealth and employment, but it also has implication for how we understand the relationship between culture, society, and economy. Here comes theory of transition- appereance of new needs and inability to meet old needs. => transformation in other industries. The main question is how me moved from industrial societies to post-industrial or information society.
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Other traditions of study have focused on especially talented or feted symbol creator,which is the way authors,musicians have reached their audimces.Example:system of patron  age in Europe-which refers to support that king or popes have provided to musiciance,paintors nad gave the way of organization of symbolic creativity around the market .Over the time idea of cretivity took dif. form in dif.societies
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Different group of people tend to have different taste so cultural industry companies attemps to match to audience.Many text fail even,those companies expect to succeed.The upshots of these processes is that cultural industry companies focusing on the circulation  of text rather than do on theur production
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 Example: in the late 1990s the rise of internet and the world wide web leads to decreasing in popularity of books and magazines as it was at 20th century. In order not to lose a job employees have to be knowledged about computers ( rising qualification) and being more creative which is represented by one of the fundamental transformation in cultural production and consumption. 
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Firms try to compete in the new business environment by internationatilisation of their operations. Which is new stage of cultural emperializm or as a sign of new global interconectedness with democratizing possibilities by using new communication technologies in other words digitalization.  
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Core cultural industries which deals primarily with industrial production and circilation of text (text is a balance between its functional and communicative aspects):

Broadcasting - radio and television industries.
Film industries -this includes the dissemination of films on video, dvd.

Music industries- includes recording of sounds other than music+ live performance.

Print and electronic publishing -  including books, cd rooms, online databases.

Video and computer games.

Advertising and marketing. 

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Core culture industries interact and interconnect with each other because they compete for the same source: 

Elimited pool of disposable income.

Elimited pool of advertising revenue.

Elimited amount of consumption time.

Skilled, creative, and technical labor.

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The same as core culture industries peripheral industries are centrally concerned with the production of the text but reproduction of these symbols uses semi-industrial and non-industrial methods. Example : exhibition and sale work of art generate enormous amounts of money and commentary each year, but reproduction is limited. Core and peripherial industries interact with each other.
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Art school produce artists who might move in and out of various forms of commercial production including film direction, advertising, and music. 
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Sport - people pay to be entertained in real time in the co-presence of talanted performers. The notable differences are that sport is fundamental competitive and tend to be more scored. 

Fashion is the fascinating hybride of a cultural industry ( the high degree of balance between functionality and signification) 

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