Media Piracy in the Cultural Economy

Intellectual Property and Labor Under Neoliberal Restructuring
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-17823-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 140 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 186 g

This book takes a Marxist approach to the study of media piracy – the production, distribution, and consumption of media texts in violation of intellectual property laws – to examine its place as an endemic feature of the cultural economy since the rise of the Internet.

The author explores media piracy not in terms of its moral or legal failings, or as the inevitable by-product of digital technologies, but as a symptom of a much larger restructuring of cultural labor in the era of the Internet: labor that is digital, entrepreneurial, informal, and even illegal, and increasingly politicized. Sketching the contours of this new political economy while engaging with theories of digital media, both critical and celebratory, Mueller reveals piracy as a submerged social history of the digital world, and potentially the key to its political reimagining.

This significant contribution to the study of piracy and digital culture will be vital reading for scholars and students of critical media studies, cultural studies, political theory, or digital humanities, and particularly those researching media piracy, digital labor, the digital economy, and Marxist theory.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mueller, Gavin

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Internet, E-Mail, Social Media
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1: Theories of Late Capitalist Restructuring: Neoliberalism and Post-Fordism

Chapter 2: The Critique of the Digital Political Economy

Chapter 3: A History of Digital Piracy

Chapter 4: Theorizing Piracy

Chapter 5: Global Piracy

Conclusion: The End of P2P

Über Autor(innen)

Gavin Mueller was born in Columbus, Ohio. He holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from George Mason University. He currently teaches New Media and Digital Culture in the Media Studies program at the University of Amsterdam.