1st Edition

Young People’s Transitions into Creative Work Navigating Challenges and Opportunities

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

172 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more


  • Acknowledgment




  • A note of authorship










  1. Young people’s journeys into creative work: Challenges and transitions into the workforce




  2. Julian Sefton-Green, S. Craig Watkins and Ben Kirschner





  3. Being Indie: The DIY ethos and Indie game development




  4. S. Craig Watkins and Andres Lombana-Bermudez





  5. Building a music innovation ecosystem: Creative labor in hip hop culture




  6. Andres Lombana-Bermudez and S. Craig Watkins





  7. Learning creative identities in filmmaking: The dubious pleasures of precarity




  8. Julian Sefton-Green





  9. Engaging youth in industry-led filmmaking projects: The limits of social and cultural capital in career-making




  10. Julian Sefton-Green





  11. Higher education, intellectual property, and incubation mechanisms: The case of Australia’s Indie 100




  12. Phil Graham





  13. Guiding young creatives in the last mile




  14. Ben Kirshner and Adam York





  15. 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

Biography

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.