Chronicling the vernacular and the middlebrow in post-digital culture.

Middlebroware is a research project initiated by Dr. Frederik Lesage, an associate professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Digital media and creative practice are now inextricably entwined with the contemporary collective imagination. The goal of this project is to better understand this imagination and how it manifests itself as a new material and symbolic order. Specifically, we investigate how the design, marketisation, and use of digital tools — from Photoshop to PowerPoint, from Unity to the Google search engine — reify creativity.
Mar 15, 2024
Frederik Lesage & Michael Terren
middlebrow

This post is a copy of the introduction to Section 3 from Creative Tools and the Softwarization of Cultural Production, edited by Frédérik Lesage & Michael Terren, from the book series Creative Working Lives. The section provides an overview of chapters by Brendan Keogh, by Maria-Nicoleta Petrescu, by Maxime Harvey and by Seth Scott-Deuchar.

Mar 1, 2024
Frédérik Lesage and Michael Terren
middlebroware

This post is an introduction to Section 2 from Creative Tools and the Softwarization of Cultural Production, edited by Frédérik Lesage & Michael Terren from the book series Creative Working Lives with chapters by Catherine Provenzano, by Frédérik Lesage and Alberto Lusoli, by Michael Terren, and by Sze Tsang.

Feb 22, 2024
Frederik Lesage and Michael Terren
middlebroware

This post is a copy of the introduction to Section 1 from Creative Tools and the Softwarization of Cultural Production, edited by Frédérik Lesage & Michael Terren, from the book series Creative Working Lives. The section provides an overview of chapters by Kaushar Mahetaji and David Nieborg, by Tom Livingstone, and by Stefan Werning.

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EDITED BOOK NOW AVAILABLE: Check out the new collection edited by Frédérik Lesage and Michael Terren with scholarly contributions from around the world! https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-45693-0