“Forget about the learning”? Technology expertise and creativity as experiential habit in hacker-/makerspaces

Richterich, Annika

doi:10.1080/2331186x.2022.2034239

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“…While there certainly have been precursors, maker culture and the maker movement have been popularised since the early 2000s (Braybrooke and Jordan, 2017; Richterich and Wenz, 2017), and the maker movement stresses not only ideals of creativity but also of inclusivity, as illustrated in slogans such as ‘Everyone can be a maker’. ‘Making’ has been established as a notion aspiring to civic, creative and hands-on, DIY practices as well as a means of developing digital expertise (Richterich, 2022a). Despite making having distinctive cultures of technological creativity and DIY, the term ‘culture’ is rarely foregrounded in maker discussions, rather ‘(creative) communities’ are often used.…”

Section: Maker Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

Researching the digital economy and the creative economy: Free gaming shards and commercialised making at the intersection of digitality and creativity

Jordan

Richterich

2022

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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Despite the creative economy relying on digital technology and the digital economy needing creative input, policy and research alike tend to miss or underestimate interdependencies between these two economies. This article argues for the importance of acknowledging interdependencies and overlaps between the cultural and creative economy and the digital economy – while likewise refraining from implicitly conflating the two. Starting from a comparative literature review that identifies key features of creative economy and digital economy literature and the few detailed works on overlaps, it elaborates on this argument by examining two case studies. In discussing and comparing digital games and do-it-yourself electronics e-commerce, this article illustrates overlaps of practices relevant to both, digital and creative economy, and elaborates on why it matters to acknowledge interdependencies rather than merging the two.

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Section: Maker Culturementioning

confidence: 99%