(Digital) tools as professional and generational identity badges in the Chinese creative industries

Animators, architects, designers, and others active in the Chinese creative industries are expert users of tools, both analog and digital. Performances of expert tool use (the wearing of professional identity badges) are strategic ways of signaling creativity understood as sets of skills and charact...

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Main Author: Liboriussen, Bjarke
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Published: Sage 2015
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description Animators, architects, designers, and others active in the Chinese creative industries are expert users of tools, both analog and digital. Performances of expert tool use (the wearing of professional identity badges) are strategic ways of signaling creativity understood as sets of skills and character traits essential for attracting work projects but also for professional identity formation. Analogue tools are generally associated with creative openness and fluidity whereas digital tools are discursively constructed as a technological other to the analogue. ‘Older’ creatives (born before 1980) tend to apply some of the media-inflected discourse around the balinghou generation (born 1980–1989) to their younger competitors, including an assumed affinity with digital media and technologies (the pinning on of a generational identity badge). Such generational assumptions can have the effect of reinforcing project hierarchies and denying expert users of digital tools their claims to creativity.
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spelling nottingham-472882020-05-04T17:18:07Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/47288/ (Digital) tools as professional and generational identity badges in the Chinese creative industries Liboriussen, Bjarke Animators, architects, designers, and others active in the Chinese creative industries are expert users of tools, both analog and digital. Performances of expert tool use (the wearing of professional identity badges) are strategic ways of signaling creativity understood as sets of skills and character traits essential for attracting work projects but also for professional identity formation. Analogue tools are generally associated with creative openness and fluidity whereas digital tools are discursively constructed as a technological other to the analogue. ‘Older’ creatives (born before 1980) tend to apply some of the media-inflected discourse around the balinghou generation (born 1980–1989) to their younger competitors, including an assumed affinity with digital media and technologies (the pinning on of a generational identity badge). Such generational assumptions can have the effect of reinforcing project hierarchies and denying expert users of digital tools their claims to creativity. Sage 2015-11-01 Article PeerReviewed Liboriussen, Bjarke (2015) (Digital) tools as professional and generational identity badges in the Chinese creative industries. Convergence, 21 (4). pp. 423-436. ISSN 1748-7382 Animation; Architecture; Balinghou; China; Creative industries; Creativity; Design; Generational differences; Sketches; Tools http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1354856515579850 doi:10.1177/1354856515579850 doi:10.1177/1354856515579850
spellingShingle Animation; Architecture; Balinghou; China; Creative industries; Creativity; Design; Generational differences; Sketches; Tools
Liboriussen, Bjarke
(Digital) tools as professional and generational identity badges in the Chinese creative industries
title (Digital) tools as professional and generational identity badges in the Chinese creative industries
title_full (Digital) tools as professional and generational identity badges in the Chinese creative industries
title_fullStr (Digital) tools as professional and generational identity badges in the Chinese creative industries
title_full_unstemmed (Digital) tools as professional and generational identity badges in the Chinese creative industries
title_short (Digital) tools as professional and generational identity badges in the Chinese creative industries
title_sort (digital) tools as professional and generational identity badges in the chinese creative industries
topic Animation; Architecture; Balinghou; China; Creative industries; Creativity; Design; Generational differences; Sketches; Tools
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