Bernard Miège at the HSE in Saint Petersburg

On March 18, 2011 Bernard Miège, Emeritus Professor at the University Stendhal-Grenoble 3, gave a lecture on the industrialization of culture and information at the HSE in Saint Petersburg. The lecture was organized with support from the blogosphere project and the research and educational group ‘Innovative Forms of Interaction between Cultural Heritage and Creative Industries’ (headed by Professor Gordin, at the Faculty of Economics).

On March 18, 2011 Bernard Miège, Emeritus Professor at the University Stendhal-Grenoble 3, gave a lecture on the industrialization of culture and information at the HSE in Saint Petersburg. The lecture was organized with support from the blogosphere project and the research and educational group ‘Innovative Forms of Interaction between Cultural Heritage and Creative Industries’ (headed by Professor Gordin, at the Faculty of Economics). Professor Miège, who headed the University Stendhal-Grenoble and French Society of Information and Communication Sciences, is founder of the approach of multiple culture industries, which signifies a break with Adorno and Horkheimer’s theory of a culture industry, and highlights not only the unifying  and commodifying role of the technology of culture, but also its productive and innovative character. The works of Miège have had a great impact on British communication research, particularly on the theorists Nikolas Garnham and David Hesmondhalgh.

Professor Miège paid special attention to the subordination of culture functioning to the logic of new media, first of all to the Internet with its mass rejection of copyright, and its ‘search engine’ giants, with their vested interests in the supply of endlessly new and free content.