Piracy Cultures: How a Growing Portion of the Global Population is Building Media Relationships Through Alternate Channels of Obtaining Content

Manuel Castells, Gustavo Cardoso

• Publisher: USC Annenberg Press
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Business
• eBook ISBN:
  9781479732272
• Subtopic: Business Communication
• Index: Business

The launching point for Piracy Cultures, is that, when a very significant proportion of the population is building its mediation through alternative channels of obtaining content, such behavior should be studied in order to deepen our knowledge of media cultures. To characterize those cultures in all their diversity—but at the same time, in their commonplaceness—Manuel Castells calls it "Piracy Cultures." By addressing the dimension of piracy cultures, the collection of articles in this e-book is to increase our understanding of the practices and cultural drives (both individual and collective—national cultures, generational cultures, etc.) of fruition and consumption of media (cinema, TV series, music, books, games, etc.) under what is labeled, by both legal and managerial cultures, as piracy. Its aim is to give new insights into how those current practices might either evolve toward new institutionalized market practices and a changed perception of the law, or remain as counter-cultural movements, although ones shared by large portions of the population.

Table of contents

• Piracy Cultures
• Table of Contents
• Piracy Cultures Editorial Introduction
• P2P in the Networked Future of European Cinema
• The Network Studio Revisited: Becoming an Artist in the Age of “Piracy Cultures”
• Do Fans Own Digital Comic Books?
• Audiovisual Piracy, Informal Economy, and Cultural Globalization
• Piracy Culture in Greece: Local Realities and Civic Potentials
• When Firms Encourage Copying: Cultural Borrowing as Standard Practice in Game Spaces
• Poisoning the Affective Economy of RW Culture: Re-Mapping the Agents
• Pirates, Who are They? A Cognitive-Linguistic Analysis of Italian Media Discourse
• “Free Culture” Lost in Translation
• The Business of Anti-Piracy: New Zones of Enterprise in the Copyright Wars
• The Quiet Agglomeration of Data: How Piracy is Made Mundane
• Survey of File-Sharing Culture
• From D-Buffs to the D-Generation: Piracy, Cinema, and an Alternative Public Sphere in Urban China
• The Collector is the Pirate
• Broadening the Scope of Cultural Preferences: Movie Talk and Chinese Pirate Film Consumption from the Mid-1980s to 2005
• Participation, Citizenship, and Pirate Radio as Empowerment:The Case of Radio Dialogue in Zimbabwe
• Underdetermined Globalization: Media Consumption via P2P Networks
• The Culture of Subversion and Russian Media Landscape
• Theatrical Distribution and P2P Movie Piracy: A Survey of P2P Networks in Hungary Using Transactional Data
• Benjamin, BitTorrent, Bootlegs: Auratic Piracy Cultures?