
Online File Sharing: Innovations in Media Consumption
Author(s): Jonas Andersson Schwarz (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 28 Aug. 2013
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 236 pages
- ISBN-10: 041585430X
- ISBN-13: 9780415854306
Book Description
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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About the Author
Jonas Andersson Schwarz is a Lecturer in the Department of Culture and Communication at Södertörn University, Sweden.
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