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Technology and Creativity: Production, Mediation and Evaluation in the Digital Age

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Technologyand creativity seem to be two core constructs that have dominated recent debates for understanding the driving forces in twenty-first-century economies, and in particular capitalist economies, debated under such terms as ‘ExperienceEconomy’ (Pine & Gilmorein The Experience Economy. Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA, 1999) or ‘Name Economy’ (Moeran in Anthropological perspectives on economic development and integration. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 299–321, 2003) or the more general term ‘New Economy’ to mention but a few of the terms coined.

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Strandgaard Pedersen, J., Slavich, B., Khaire, M. (2020). Technology and Creativity: Production, Mediation and Evaluation in the Digital Age. In: Strandgaard Pedersen, J., Slavich, B., Khaire, M. (eds) Technology and Creativity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17566-5_1

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