Gavin Mueller

Media Piracy in the Cultural Economy

Intellectual Property and Labor Under Neoliberal Restructuring

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Focus on Digital Media and Culture
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 181g
• ISBN-13: 9781032178233
• ISBN-10: 103217823X
• Artikelnr.: 62573295

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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

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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

Rezensionen

"This is a beautifully written and engaging publication that makes a very important contribution to the growing literature on media piracy. Mueller not only examines piracy as a culturally embedded activity, but he expertly uses Marxist theory to elucidate his argument that piracy must be seem as a part of the greater reorganisation of labour in the digital era. It is essential reading for anyone interested in looking beyond purely economic concerns and instead examining how piracy is inextricably connected to wider social and political shifts." --Virginia Crisp, King's College London, UK

"This is a beautifully written and engaging publication that makes a very important contribution to the growing literature on media piracy. Mueller not only examines piracy as a culturally embedded activity, but he expertly uses Marxist theory to elucidate his argument that piracy must be seem as a part of the greater reorganisation of labour in the digital era. It is essential reading for anyone interested in looking beyond purely economic concerns and instead examining how piracy is inextricably connected to wider social and political shifts." --Virginia Crisp, King's College London, UK