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 • and the response of the mass media and multi-national corporations. The book 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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780857025388
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-85702-538-8
- Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
- Erscheinungstermin: 22.06.2010
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2010
- Serie: Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 316 g
- Seiten: 200
- Format (B x H x T): 156 x 234 x 11 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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