Media cities and the reconstruction of space and place (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Spicer, A. (2023, November). Media cities and the reconstruction of space and place. Presented at Invited talk, Portico Library, Central Manchester

This presentation explores the concept of a 'media city'. It begins with a definition: media cities are a planned, highly structured intervention that is part of a transformational change in the urban landscape. The presentation then discusses a part... Read More about Media cities and the reconstruction of space and place.

Fuzzy entrepreneurship: Exploring young people’s emerging creative entrepreneurial practices (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Agusita, E. (2023, March). Fuzzy entrepreneurship: Exploring young people’s emerging creative entrepreneurial practices. Presented at CKC 2023: New Futures for Creative Economies, Bristol, UK

This workshop presents and explores initial findings from a pilot research study that considers ways in which young people’s emerging and developing entrepreneurial creative practices might challenge and disrupt prevailing discourses about creative a... Read More about Fuzzy entrepreneurship: Exploring young people’s emerging creative entrepreneurial practices.

Attracting and sustaining the screen industry workforce in Yorkshire and the Humber (2023)
Report
Hughes, E., & Webber, D. J. (2023). Attracting and sustaining the screen industry workforce in Yorkshire and the Humber. https://screen-network.org.uk: XR Stories, University of York

A key resource to any creative industry is their workforce, and this is particularly true for the screen industry. Although the central importance of this workforce is widely acknowledged, comparatively little is known about the mobility and embedde... Read More about Attracting and sustaining the screen industry workforce in Yorkshire and the Humber.

Dis-automation: Creative making with automation and AI (2022)
Journal Article
Crogan, P. (2022). Dis-automation: Creative making with automation and AI. Media Theory, 6(2), 25-54

This essay considers the nature and stakes of creative making with computational automation technologies. I will argue that Bernard Stiegler’s organological approach to the human as “technical life” takes care of the question of the nature of creativ... Read More about Dis-automation: Creative making with automation and AI.

Creative Networks: Asset Mapping South Blessed (2013)
Digital Artefact
Agusita, E. Creative Networks: Asset Mapping South Blessed. [Website Content]

This article discusses the use of asset mapping as a cross-thematic methodology to study the value of creative citizenship in relation to creative networks.