entrepreneurial ‘carpe diem’
Hi everyone! I am writing this blog post a day after our creative guest speakers gave such motivating speeches. Also, there will be one more post coming (hopefully today) commenting on Inspirational Speaker Day.
First of all, I would like to draw our attention to first assignment in Cultural Entrepreneurship whose deadline is on 6th March. I have been thinking recently about any possible relevant case studies which would form the basis for the final report. What do you think about recent story about Jade Goody and how she uses media to show her illness? Don’t you think that she is an example of a cultural entrepreneur? Selling her fitness videos and DVDs, perfumes, autobiography, etc. and using all different kinds of media (including her appearance on celebrity Big Brother in 2008) brought her huge profit already. In addition to all this, she decided to shoot the reportage about her illness and how she struggles to survive each day showing other women, who suffer from cervical cancer, the importance of spending the last months with the closest family friends. It’s like Horace’s carpe diem (‘seize the day’) the phrase which probably reflects the feelings of this ‘entrepreneur’ and helps her create something culturally important for the British nation that no one has ever done before.
Maybe I’m going the wrong direction but I’m considering many different case studies at the moment.
Dominika Jankowska
Enterprise | Dominika Jankowska | Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Remember during the inspirational speaker’s day we were discussing what we think a cultural entrepreneur is? Remember the bit about Katie price/Jordan?? There seem to be parallels here with her and Jade…
What other cases are you looking at?? Is there someone in mind who isn’t necessarily a celebrity first, then entrepreneur? Maybe you can contrast the two approaches or something…I chose Oprah Winfrey cause she is in my line of work lol, what do you think?
I thought about Jade Goody as well but haven’t chosen her as after the debate last Tuesday with Annette I felt that she does shows entrepreneurial traits however she uses media to sell herself but so does a car in advertising and that is not classed as cultural product is it?