Author : Jonas Andersson Schwarz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315469952
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Popular Communication, Piracy and Social Change by : Jonas Andersson Schwarz
Download or read book Popular Communication, Piracy and Social Change written by Jonas Andersson Schwarz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital piracy cultures and peer-to-peer technologies combined to spark transformations in audio-visual distribution between the late 1990s and the mid-2000s. Digital piracy also inspired the creation of a global anti-piracy law and policy regime, and counter-movements such as the Swedish and German Pirate Parties. These trends provide starting points for a wide-ranging debate about the prospects for deep and lasting changes in social life enabled by piratical technology practices. This edited volume brings together contemporary scholarship in communication and media studies, addressing piracy as a recombinant feature of popular communication, technological innovation, and communication law and policy. An international collection of contributors highlights key debates about piracy, popular communication, and social change, and provides a lasting resource for global media studies. This book was originally published as a special issue of Popular Communication.