[Air-L] CALL FOR PAPERS Forms of production in the cultural and creative industries: boundaries and meanings

[Alessandra Micalizzi]

Dear Colleagues,

We are glad to share the call for papers for the first book of the
book-series 2024 of Communication Processes and Cultural Practices.
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Cultural and creative industries (CCIs) encompass visual and performing
arts, literature, and music, but also design, fashion, cultural heritage,
and publishing (Sawyer, 2014; Razzoli et al., 2020). This concept also
includes cultural and communicative processes (Casey and O’Brien, 2020).
With few notable excep tions (Hesmondalgh and Baker, 2015; Snowball and
Hadisi, 2020), social science has not yet set out to offer a systematic
treatment of the field and its labor and organizational processes.
However, forms of production within the CCIs are a promising subject of
investigation for social scientists. Firstly, because formality and
informality overlap more in cultural work (Banks, 2007) than in other
sectors (Micalizzi, 2022; OECD, 2021). This is because it is presented as
“cool” and apparently fun work (Hesmon- dalgh and Baker, 2015; Been and
Keune, 2020). However, its organization often conceals dynamics of power
and exploitation. A class dimension seems to be evident, with some jobs
being considered prestigious and others second-class (Hesmondalgh, 2012),
as well as a gender dimension, with several studies in diffe- rent sectors
that have shown that there exists a deep occupational segregation (Rocchi
et al., 2023; Micalizzi, 2022). Moreover, the critical contractual and
organizational issues in these worlds are illustrated by the fact that in
2020, the Covid pandemic will lead to the loss of at least 10 million jobs
in CCIs worldwide (UNESCO 2021). Finally, “over-the-top” platforms (Abreu
et al., 2016; Magaudda, 2020) and the unexpected risks of automation
associated with using artificial intelligence raise new questions about the
future of work in this sector (Mazzone and Elgammal, 2019; Anantrasirichai
and Bull, 2022).

The call for papers invites theoretical and empirical, qualitative and
quantitative research con- tributions that focus specifically on:

   - What are the boundaries of CCIs?
   - What does it mean to produce culture? Streaming platforms and new ways
   of producing CCIs
   - The types and forms of inequalities in the CCIs
   - Artificial Intelligence and the transformation of working and
   producing processes in CCIs.

Authors are invited to send their proposals to
culturalpractices_proposal at writeupbooks.com
including an abstract of the book (no more than 800 words included
bibliography), and a short bibliography. The abstract must clearly shed
light on goals, methods and main results of the research, if the paper will
be an empirical focus.

The deadline for the submission of the proposals will be December the 22nd
(2023).

   - Notifications of acceptance will be sent before the end of January.
   - Final version of the paper is due to the end of march.
   - The publication is foreseen for the end of June 2024.

The proposals could be in Italian or in English.

For any question about the topic, please send an email to the editors:
Rebecca Paraciani- University of Bologna - rebecca.paraciani2 at unibo.it Lorenzo
Cattani- University of Bologna - lorenzo.cattani3 at unibo.it
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Here more information about the book series and the board:
https://www.writeupbooks.com/communication-processes-and-cultural-practices/

Hope to read you really soon!
best regards

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Alessandra Micalizzi
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cell. 3492928386
http://iulm.academia.edu/AlessandraMicalizzi
http://www.linkedin.it/AlessandraMicalizzi

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