"The Creative Industries: Arts and Materiality Redux

In this afterword, we briefly trace (and celebrate) how opportunities for novel approaches to research the arts and creative industries have increased dramatically. Technological advances have greatly transformed the material side of topics generally encompassed in both the ?production of culture? and ?creative industries? frameworks. With no physical product needing to be purchased or obtained when books, records, and movies can be streamed and downloaded by consumers, the disintermediation of their manufacture, retail distribution, and earlier modes of promotion has led to a more economic and less organizational approach to their valuation and markets