Andrew McCluskey

The culture industry describes companies and creators who forge new products and art forms where commercial success hinges on the future conventionality of those ideas.

After cleaning up the data, Pozen and Downey obtained a complete set of answers from 19,957 respondents. Roughly half were residents of North America; another 21 percent were residents of Europe, and 19 percent were residents of Asia. The remaining 10 percent included residents of Australia, South America, and Africa.

There is something magical about creating something with another person, particularly if that creation is tangible and can be revisited after the creative act. Typically in the arts such a creative act requires a level of skill – a level of resource investment to develop muscle memory and ability to meet another in a creative space – think how... See more

The lack of specialized knowledge amongst the mainstream audience encourages cultural producers to create and distribute cultural works with minimum changes to pre-existing artistic conventions. The industry perceives mainstream individuals as conservative: They “like what they like” and prefer not to be confronted with radical change.