Overview

Exploring how formal and informal education initiatives and training systems in the US, UK and Australia seek to achieve a socially diverse workforce, this insightful book offers a series of detailed case studies to reveal the initiative and ingenuity shown by today’s young people as they navigate entry into creative fields of work. Young People’s Journeys into Creative Work acknowledges the new and diverse challenges faced by today's youth as they look to enter employment. Chapters trace the rise of indie work, aspirational labour, economic precarity, and the disruptive effects of digital technologies, to illustrate the oinventive ways in which youth from varied socio-economic and cultural backgrounds enter into work in film, games production, music, and the visual arts. From hip-hop to new media arts, the text explores how opportunities for creative work have multiplied in recent years as digital technologies open new markets, new scenes, and new opportunities for entrepreneurs and innovation. This book will be of great interest to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of youth studies, careers guidance, media studies, vocational education and sociology of education.

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Author:   Julian Sefton-Green (Deakin University, Australia) ,  S Craig Watkins ,  Ben Kirshner
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.244kg
ISBN:  

9780367777432

ISBN 10:   0367777436
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   01 April 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgment A note of authorship Young people’s journeys into creative work: Challenges and transitions into the workforce Julian Sefton-Green, S. Craig Watkins and Ben Kirschner Being Indie: The DIY ethos and Indie game development S. Craig Watkins and Andres Lombana-Bermudez Building a music innovation ecosystem: Creative labor in hip hop culture Andres Lombana-Bermudez and S. Craig Watkins Learning creative identities in filmmaking: The dubious pleasures of precarity Julian Sefton-Green Engaging youth in industry-led filmmaking projects: The limits of social and cultural capital in career-making Julian Sefton-Green Higher education, intellectual property, and incubation mechanisms: The case of Australia’s Indie 100 Phil Graham Guiding young creatives in the last mile Ben Kirshner and Adam York Building and brokering pathways in new media arts: A new dimension of youth program quality Ben Kirshner, Josephina Chang-Order, Michael Harris, Katie Van Horne

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Julian Sefton-Green is Professor of New Media Education at Deakin University, Australia. S. Craig Watkins is Founding Director of the Institute for Media Innovation (IMI) and the incoming Ernest S. Sharpe Centennial Professor in the Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin, USA. Ben Kirshner is Professor of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder and Faculty Director of CU Engage: Center for Community-Based Learning and Research, USA.

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