Genres organize and facilitate cultural, creative media production consumption but are rarely central categories in extant research on industries. With this editorial article, we aim to reassert, reassess revisit the salience of genres for understanding inequalities cultural We argue that genres, as classificatory devices, structure order a gendered racialized division labour occupational pract...

In this paper, we seek to address the challenge of online connected creativity by studying the emergence of novelty in the ‘Sensory Threads’ project, a six-month project currently underway as part of the EPSRC cluster project, http://www.creatorproject.org/, (EP/G002088/1), New Research Processes and Business Models for the Creative Industries. The cluster brings together practitioners from the...