Questioning The Idea of a Creative Class

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August 7, 2008

Jeff Jarvis has a compelling post describing how we’re witnessing the end mass production and of a priestly, elite creative class. He explains that though the internet does not make us more creative, it’s an open platform for sharing, where the best will stand out. A place where merit is not defined solely by a taste making gatekeeper.

Jarvis explains how we are all “the creative class”:

Internet curmudgeons argue that Google et al are bringing society to ruin precisely because they rob the creative class of its financial support and exclusivity: its pedestal. But internet triumphalists, like me, argue that the internet opens up creativity past one-size-fits-all mass measurements and priestly definitions and lets us not only find what we like but find people who like what we do. The internet kills the mass, once and for all. With it comes the death of mass economics and mass media, but I don’t lament that, not for a moment.

Buzz Machine: “The myth of the creative class”

By Dan Gould

in Arts & Culture, Web & Technology, Work & Business
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Comments (5)

  1. Creative Class im not sure i get you?

    Cool Personal Checks
    August 7th, 2008 at 7:29 pm

  2. i agree with the post. were pretty much all creative, some with supportive resources, some not so much. the web opens it up. were entering new ground here folks-

    andy brown
    August 7th, 2008 at 8:50 pm

  3. The same could have been said for public libraries.

    Fake Piers Fawkes
    August 8th, 2008 at 7:49 am

  4. How come the illustration for this post is not credited (to eBoy)?

    http://hello.eboy.com/eboy/index.php

    Also, is this illos. actually in the public domain?

    Jack Everitt
    August 8th, 2008 at 11:06 am

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    Cavell Higgins
    February 28th, 2009 at 12:33 pm

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