Bringing together seminal essays written across traditional and new media, industry sectors, and national contexts, Creative Industries chronicles the way mass culture is produced, packaged and circulated in a technology-enabled and globalized world. The volume samples the subjects that have come to define the creative industries - learning services, knowledge clusters, dot.coms, creative cities, networked incubators, the new media, and the shift from the "culture industries" to the "industries of culture" - charting the noisy revolution that is transforming our use and understanding of culture in the all-wired era. Twenty-three essays by leading international scholars cover the creative industries of several fields, including book publishing, TV production, urban development, and games. Substantial editorial introductions by the editor make this a useful, engaging, and thought-provoking collection of the very best scholarship on modern creative culture.