Well-Being and Creative Careers: What Makes You Happy Can Also Make You Sick

There is a well-documented mental health crisis among media professionals worldwide. This book documents what is particular about well-being in creative careers in the media, offers an analysis of systemic issues throughout the media industries that explain why so many practitioners get sick on the job and shows what can be done.

Preface: Outline, Positionality, and Gratitude is free to read here

Read Mark Deuze’s substack here

Watch a series of interviews with professionals and scholars in the field of media here

Mark Deuze is professor of media studies at the University of Amsterdam. Publications of his work include over a hundred papers in academic journals and edited volumes, as well as fourteen books.