A multi-author discussion of the creative industries in the digital age
Senior year of college. When I started just a mere four years ago, I was ready to start my life as an “adult.” I was ready to learn more about my major in Film and New Media Studies, make new connections, and solidify myself as a business professional. Now, as a senior, I am faced […]
Video Games. Whether it’s Super Mario Bros., League of Legends or Fortnite, we all at least heard of a popular title. Some of us love them: playing for fun or for sport, while others are largely disinterested. But what’s truly undeniable is it’s economic and cultural effect on our society. Generating about $119.6 billion in […]
As if it weren’t enough. As if it weren’t enough that creative workers struggle as is, some barely affording their rent. As if it weren’t enough that many creative workers are under contractual agreements and don’t know what creative job will be kind enough to hire them after their job ends. As if it weren’t […]
Meet Wong Fu Productions— an Asian American filmmaking group that creates web content with the help of us, the consumers. Using the crowdfunding platform “Patreon,” Wong Fu Productions is able to receive money that fans choose to donate in order to help fund the production. They in turn release special and unlockable content that […]
In a world where visual streaming content seems to reign supreme, it may be a shock to you that there is another rising medium that proves to be equally as captivating: podcasting. What is podcasting? Podcasts are audio works made available through streaming on the internet, usually coming in installments. Podcasts can be more “talky […]
Professionals that work in the creative industries have a problem, and that is one of precarity—and workers from other fields seem to know it too. “Why don’t you go into a more stable job, like Insurance?” my Father says on the daily, as I tell him that I want to edit videos for the rest […]
Introducing virtual reality— a technology that would be harvested to create a new way of interacting with media that seemed to be only a couple of years ago right out of a science fiction movie. Despite being quite young in its career in regards to the media industry, the virtual reality field has spawned […]
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