(EN)GENDERED CREATIVITY. Actors Agencies Artifacts

The recent debate on creative industries (word who has substituted/is substituting the more traditional notion of “cultural industry” into media, economic, cultural and aesthetics debate) denounces the resilience of gender “differences” (understood both as specificities as inequalities) into generating processes. This is, on the one hand, the effect of a men and women’ unequal presence within media system (see the recent report of European Community on the presence and roles of men and women in the media industry - http://eige.europa.eu/content/document/advancing-gender-equality-in-decision-making-in-media-organisations-report); on the other hand, it is the result of the persistence of sexual segregation’s forms, also in digital context. In positive terms, however, genderization is a multiplying of creativity and it produces a variety of practices and processes. This special issue aims to explore the many features that gendered creativity assumes: its genesis, its expressions, its effects, both negative and positive.