Have the music and movie industries lost the battle to criminalize
downloading? This penetrating and informative book provides readers
with the perfect systematic critical guide to the file-sharing
phenomenon. Combining inter-disciplinary resources from sociology,
history, media and communication studies and cultural studies, David
unpacks the economics, psychology and philosophy of file-sharing. The
book carefully situates the reader in a field of relevant approaches
including network society theory, post-structuralism and ethnographic
research. It uses this to launch into a fascinating enquiry into: the
rise of file-sharing the challenge to intellectual property law posed
by new technologies of communication the social psychology of cyber
crime the response of the mass media and multi-national corporations.
Matthew David concludes with a balanced, eye-opening assessment of
alternative cultural modes of participation and their relationship to
cultural capitalism. This is a landmark work in the sociology of
popular culture and cultural criminology. It fuses a deep knowledge of
the music industry and the new technologies of mass communication with
a powerful perspective on how multinational corporations seek to
monopolize markets, how international and state agencies defend
property, while a global multitude undermine and/or reinvent both.
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ISBN
9781446244319
Publisert
2015
Utgave
1. utgave
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Vendor
Sage Publications Ltd (UK)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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