In this afterword, we briefly trace (and celebrate) how opportunities for novel
approaches to research the arts and creative industries have increased dramatically.
Technological advances have greatly transformed the material side
of topics generally encompassed in both the ?production of culture? and
?creative industries? frameworks. With no physical product needing to be
purchased or obtained when books, records, and movies can be streamed and
downloaded by consumers, the disintermediation of their manufacture, retail
distribution, and earlier modes of promotion has led to a more economic
and less organizational approach to their valuation and markets