Digitizing Fads and Fashions—Disintermediation and Glocalized Markets in Creative Industries

Mainstreaming Innovation in Art Worlds: Cooperative links, conventions and amphibious artists

“…Cubist painters exploited the field fragmentation and ambiguity of conventions arising from the proliferation of niches in the French painting art world (Sgourev, 2013). Finally, music artists have taken advantage of the disruptive impact of digital technologies, which cut intermediaries out of the music art world, and opened up opportunities for artists to interact directly with their audiences (Hirsch & Gruber, 2015). Conventions in place form the baseline from which the ‘foreign’ or unusual innovation would encounter resistance.…”

Mapping the Film and Audiovisual Sectors: a Research Agenda for the Future

“…The international flow of media content, and the rise of global media conglomerates (e.g., GAFAN -Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Netflix), help to explain that the most dynamic broadcasting and TV production companies operating today in Europe have, in most cases, a transnational outlook (Artero et al, 2019;Keinonen, 2018). At the same time, glocalized markets are characterised by disintermediation and re-intermediating processes (Hirsch & Gruber, 2013;Keinonen, 2018).…”

Appropriating value: on the relationship between business models and intellectual property

“…'Middle-men' such as tastemaking talent spotters, promoters, and critics, or production or distribution specialists, such as television broadcasters, newspapers, recording labels or book publishers, are sidestepped. 71 A more horizontal paradigm allows creators and performers to operate independently, reaching audiences directly through social media, communicating with clients directly and selling work without intermediaries. Equally, professional creators and performers face competition from debutants and amateurs who use social media and online distribution to bypass the traditional selection mechanisms and quality filters of production.…”