Mark Deuze is a professor of media studies at the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Humanities. Publications of his work include over 150 academic articles and 14 books, including Well-Being and Creative Careers (Intellect, 2025), Happiness in Journalism (Routledge, 2024) and Life in Media (The MIT Press, 2023). Professor Deuze has held honorary appointments at the Faculty of Journalism at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, the School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University in Perth, the School of Communication of the University of Technology Sydney, Australia and the Department of Communication and Media Studies of Northumbria University, United Kingdom. He is also band member of Skinflower, latest album 'Kaduc'(Record Union, 2024).

• Preface: Outline, Positionality, and GratitudeChapter 1: Crisis? What Crisis?Chapter 2: So What and Why Now?Chapter 3: Defining Health and Well-Being in Creative CareersChapter 4: Mapping the CrisisChapter 5: The Pleasures and Paradoxes of Media WorkChapter 6: Doing What You Love as a Blessing and a CurseChapter 7: What Makes You Happy Can Also Make You SickChapter 8: Finding Joy at WorkBibliographyIndex

'Well-Being and Creative Careers is a call to rethink the conditions that enable meaningful, sustainable and fulfilling participation in creative work. Many readers may arrive expecting a study of media and creative careers and leave recognising a broader diagnosis of how purpose, identity and labour have become increasingly intertwined within contemporary professional life. By positioning well-being as a structural rather than individual concern, Deuze makes an important contribution to ongoing debates about labour, identity, participation and sustainability within media cultures and beyond.One of the most impressive aspects of Well-Being and Creative Careers is that it remains constructive despite the seriousness of the problems it documents. By framing well-being as a collective concern and structural issue shaped by organisational practices and wider cultural expectations, Deuze calls for healthier institutional cultures, stronger support structures and more sustainable approaches to creative labour.'