MCPS3101 Work, Entrepreneurship and Expertise (5 op)

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Opinnon taso:
Syventävät opinnot
Arviointiasteikko:
0-5
Suorituskieli:
englanti, suomi
Vastuuorganisaatio:
Yhteiskuntatieteiden ja filosofian laitos
Opetussuunnitelmakaudet:
2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020

Kuvaus

Sisältö

Course offers historical, theoretical and empirical knowledge about the culture as a field of work, entrepreneurship and expertize. Concepts such as digital work, Fordism, post-Fordism, creative work, commons, commons-based peer production, networks, new co-operatives, affective work, precarization, knowledge work, cognitive capitalism, attention economy etc. are dealt from different perspectives. Cultural entrepreneurship and its paradoxes, different forms of cultural entrepreneurship and examplatory cases of cultural entrepreneurship are given. The course also analyses societal circumstances, transformations and political trends which further influence to cultural entrepreneurship and economization of culture. Course also introduces new research concerning the future of professions, the role of knowledge in networked society and the role of professional workers in cultural fields.

Suoritustavat

Lectures / seminars / reading groups / essays.

Arviointiperusteet

Participating in lectures / seminars / reading groups, writing and essay.

Osaamistavoitteet

This course prepares students to understand culture as a field of work, entrepreneurship and expertise. The course introduces students to the historical changes of work and economy generally during the past centuries and more particularly during the past decades. Special attention is given to work done in the different areas of culture, from arts to cultural production and management. Students become familiar with the diversite forms of creative labor. The course also gives knowledge on different theories of work and creates the basic understanding of the reality of culture as work. The changes of the expert work in the field of culture, cultural economy and cultural policy is dealt in different ways. Students acquire new ideas concerning the changing expertise, which helps students to reflect their own professionalism in the field of cultural policy.

Kirjallisuus

  • 5. Kirby, Alan: Digimodernism: How New Technologies Dismantle the Postmodern and Reconfigure Our Culture.
  • 3. Armstrong, Kelly: Managing the commons in the knowledge economy.
  • 4. Moulier-Boutang, Yann: Cognitive Capitalism.
  • 7. Susskind & Susskind: The Future of Professions.
  • 6. Karatzogianni, Athina & Kuntsman, Adi: Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion: Feelings, Affect and Technological Change.
  • 8. McRobbie, Angela (2015): Be Creative: Making a Living in the New Culture Industries.
  • 1. Standing, Guy: Precariat – New Dangerous Class.
  • When completing the course with lectures, choose one book from the following list for the essay. When completing the course only with essays, choose three books of the following:
  • 2. Raunig, Gerald; Ray, Gene; Wuggenig, Ulf: Critique of Creativity : Precarity, Subjectivity and Resistance in the 'Creative Industries'.
  • 9. Kuhike, Olaf et al. (eds.) (2016): Creating Cultural Capital. Cultural Entrepreneurship in Theory, Pedagogy and Practice.

Suoritustavat

Tapa 1

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