With an explicit focus on the Australia’s KFC T20 Big Bash League, my article explores how cricket is packaged as an affective televisual spectacle. The Big Bash’s technological innovations and refinements blur the lines of information, entertainment and commodification, while allowing a traditional broadcast media form to be re-presented in non-traditional ways. That is, cameras and other tech...

Abstract Since the 1970s, temporary uses of vacant spaces have become a preferred urban development strategy to revitalise centrally-located neighbourhoods. In housing sector, however, are barely registered as they provide only short-term shelter in buildings shortly before demolition. Therefore, do not secure stable right housing. Switzerland, nevertheless, increasingly gaining momentum segmen...

This paper aims to provide insights into the concept of ‘user empowerment’ in current –digital and connectedmedia industries. We start by defining empowerment as a concept rooted in certain research traditions that focus on user behaviour and capabilities in dealing with digital and connected technologies and the production, aggregation, distribution and consumption of content. We then oppose ‘...

Bourdieu and Darbel's classic study of European art museum audiences, The Love of Art (1991), remains one of the most influential academic studies of the social indices of art perception. Its findings were central to Bourdieu's on-going study of culture-mediated power relations, as found in the book Distinction (Bourdieu 1984), as well as social surveys of the behaviour of museum audiences acro...

The cultural and creative industries have become a vibrant field of research in recent years. Increasing their contributions to GDP encompassing growing share the labour market, common feature many areas policy research, and, especially urban contexts, associated with significant spatial transformations. While origin concept ‘culture industry’ work Adorno Horkheimer is often acknowledged, conte...