• critically analyses the relationship between media work and the media industry.

his book “The Culture industries” (2019) suggests:

“the distinctive organisational form of the cultural industries has considerable implications for the conditions under which symbolic creativity is carried out’

he also states in a article:

“there must be serious concerns about the extent to which this business-driven, economic agenda is compatible with the quality of working life and of human well-being in the creative industries.“

the individualising discourses of ‘talent’ and ‘celebrity’ and the promise of future fame or consecration, have special purchase in creative work, and are often instrumental in ensuring compliance with the sometimes invidious demands of managers, organisations and the industry (Banks & Hesmondhalgh, p. 420).

creative work is now imagined only as a self-actualising pleasure, rather than a potentially arduous or problematic obligation undertaken through material necessity (2009, p. 417) 

the value of (family) connections in the industry, provide a sobering counterweight to the attributes of ‘determination and commitment’. As does the role of luck, chance and coincidence