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Unexpected Enterprises: Remixing Creative Entrepreneurship (2020)
Book Chapter
Agusita, E., & Ashton, D. (2020). Unexpected Enterprises: Remixing Creative Entrepreneurship. In S. Taylor, & S. Luckman (Eds.), Pathways into Creative Working Lives (31-47). (1). Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38246-9_2

Entrepreneurialism is widely encouraged across many industrial sectors in the ‘knowledge-based’ economy of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Entrepreneurialism, including self-promotion and work on the self, has been held and is a... Read More about Unexpected Enterprises: Remixing Creative Entrepreneurship.

View over Bristol - Tryers, creativity and a civic imaginary (2017)
Book Chapter
Sobers, S., Dovey, J., & Agusita, E. (2017). View over Bristol - Tryers, creativity and a civic imaginary. In A. Atay, & J. Brower (Eds.), Communication, Culture, and Making Meaning in the City: Ethnographic Engagements in Urban Environments. Lexington Books

"Bristol has a culture of tryers, lots of people trying but because there’s a lack of accessibility. Because there is a lack of exits, naturally there are loads of people trying to get out… it is full of people who are trying because they can't grab... Read More about View over Bristol - Tryers, creativity and a civic imaginary.

Community media as social innovation: Transformation, agency and value (2017)
Book Chapter
Dovey, J., Sobers, S., & Agusita, E. (2017). Community media as social innovation: Transformation, agency and value. In S. Malik, C. Chapain, & R. Comunian (Eds.), Community Filmmaking: Diversity, Innovation, Policy and Practice. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315642727

This chapter discusses the Creative Citizens study, an extensive research project conducted by the authors from 2013 to 2015, looking into the community media practices of the South Blessed collective, a self-motivated network of young creatives appr... Read More about Community media as social innovation: Transformation, agency and value.

From networks to complexity: Two case studies (2016)
Book Chapter
Harte, D., Dovey, J., Agusita, E., & Zamenopoulos, T. (2016). From networks to complexity: Two case studies. In J. Hartley, & I. Hargreaves (Eds.), The Creative Citizen Unbound: How Social Media and DIY Culture Contribute to Democracy, Communities and the Creative Economy (129-152). Bristol: Policy Press

"From the noticeboard in the newsagent’s window to multi-layered online networks using social networking technologies, citizens are increasingly accessing networks of support that uncover previously invisible opportunities. Such networks exist online... Read More about From networks to complexity: Two case studies.

Asset mapping and civic creativity (2016)
Book Chapter
Alexiou, K., Agusita, E., Alevizou, G., Chapain, C., Zamenopoulos, T., & Turner, J. (2016). Asset mapping and civic creativity. In J. Hartley, & I. Hargreaves (Eds.), The Creative Citizen Unbound: How Social Media and DIY Culture Contribute to Democracy, Communities and the Creative Economy (181-204). Bristol: Policy Press

"The Creative Citizen project is concerned not only with understanding and capturing current practice and its value (as enacted through the use of different media) but also exploring how this pursuit of value can be further supported and advanced.... Read More about Asset mapping and civic creativity.