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Online File Sharing: Innovations in Media Consumption

Online File Sharing: Innovations in Media Consumption

Hardcover

Series: Comedia

General ComputersGeneral SociologyComputer Security

ISBN10: 041585430X
ISBN13: 9780415854306
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 28 2013
Pages: 236
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

It is apparent that file sharing on the Internet has become an emerging norm of media consumption-especially among young people. This book provides a critical perspective on this phenomenon, exploring issues related to file sharing, downloading, peer-to-peer networks, piracy, and (not least) policy issues regarding these practices. Andersson Schwartz critically engages with the justificatory discourses of the actual file-sharers, taking Sweden as a geographic focus. By focusing on the example of Sweden-home to both The Pirate Bay and Spotify-he provides a unique insight into a mentality that drives both innovation and deviance and accommodates sharing in both its unadulterated and its compliant, business-friendly forms.

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