ABSTRACT
Certain locations house particular culture industry clusters and become control and command centers for global networks of capital, goods, services, talent and labor, and media texts and technologies, while other places do not. While some scholars have attributed this phenomenon to happenstance or serendipity, other scholars have attempted to show that culture industry clustering and places of media innovation do not develop entirely by accident. Various factors such as climate, logistic location, social context, popular culture, migration patterns, social networks and cultural offerings, favorable government policies, and cheap real estate prices, as well as other place-based factors have been noted as explanations for the existence of certain media industries in particular places at particular times. 1 Over the past decade, literature on globalization has noted the prominence of cities (sometimes in lieu of the nation-state) as spaces of innovation, capitalist centers of accumulation, laboratories for cultural production and practice, and landscapes that attract service and knowledge industry labor and creative talent.
