Financial economics and textual form reinforce each other in media production

Evidence

“Derivative media” captures not just the financial, legal, and textual characteristics of contemporary cultural production and circulation, but the manner in which these are self-reinforcing mechanisms. The broader financial economics of cultural production seek to capitalize on disassembled, tradable assets that it can exploit; likewise, the corporate media text increasingly derives its textual material in a fashion that lends itself to disassembly and rebundling. Each function serves the other. — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 167

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

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• Finance now structures every layer of cultural production from text to audience to labor (similarity 0.84)
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• Hollywood’s derivative output makes intertextuality reliably bankable (similarity 0.83)
• Contemporary media are far more derivative and finance-driven than past media (similarity 0.83)
• Contemporary cultural products are increasingly derivative and finance-complicit than in the past (similarity 0.83)