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The Role of Culture and Its Consumption

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Cultural expression shapes the consumption of cultural products and services. Cultural consumption determines how culture in produced. Increasingly, how we consume culture is being influenced by technology that enables greater access to creative and cultural produce. The expressive values (aesthetic, spiritual, social, historical, symbolic and authenticity) are what distinguisheds the produce of the creative economy and industries. These expressive values influence consumption market types and modes. Drawing on peripheral region cases it is evident that creative industries in more remote areas a highly influenced by local conditions, using their locale as inspiration and an active element in the marketing of their produce.

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    Such is the nature of these modes of consumption, they sit outside of usual metrics for quantifying and analysing these produce. This is part of the reason why many efforts to truly gauge the nature of creative economy activity fail to grasp the full impact.

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    This extract was originally published as part of the Creative Edge Policy Toolkit (2013) (see http://www.creative-edge.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Creative-Edge-Policy-ToolKit-web.pdf)

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Collins, P., Cunningham, J.A. (2017). The Role of Culture and Its Consumption. In: Creative Economies in Peripheral Regions. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52165-7_2

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