Call for Papers: Piracy Effect – English version
Edited by Roberto Braga and Giovanni Caruso
The CFP is accessible at:
Digital piracy is a very unpredictable phenomenon. It’s quite hard to keep its power under control and to identify its legal, technological and social implications and repercussions.
After Napster's success, P2P traffic has grown exponentially up to recent years when it has shown a constant decrease compared to total Internet traffic. This reduction is related to the large market penetration of real time entertainment services, cyberlockers and tothe steady and pervasive strengthening of legal distribution platforms. Economic literature on piracy effects doesn’t have a shared and clear interpretation of the phenomenon and of its effects on cultural industries.
Furthermore, the recent shutdown of Library.nu and Megaupload has superficially affected illegal download and streaming, but, as a result, it has fed the conflict between media industries lobbies and a large amount of Internet users and consumers. Digital piracy has changed deeply after the wide diffusion of video-sharing platforms like YouTube, implying new forms of violation of copyright. In this multifaceted scenario users have deeply transformed their media consumption behaviors, new forms of entertainment have arisen and distribution platforms and the related business models are continuously reinventing themselves.
The main aim of the book Piracy Effect is to investigate the complexity of digital piracy focusing on its impact on the changing relationship between production, distribution and consumption of cultural products. Here some key topics we would like to be investigated by contributors – although we encourage the submission of proposals on other subjects that could better explore digital piracy.
- Piracy and business models: piracy has often been depicted as a consequence of cultural industries’ lacks and failing. Which is the reply to piracy pervasiveness in terms of innovative business and production models? Which are the media industry local and globalimplications related to piracy fighting?
- Piracy and cultural behaviors: piracy cannot be considered only as an answer to market inadequacy and malfunction. Piracy plays an important role in defining forms of cultural criticism. How do these forms of resistance to cultural industries show up and how do they relate to cultural industries strategies and production patterns?
- Piracy and related economies: is digital piracy able to create new markets capable to compete with the traditional ones? How are gift economy, sharing economy, affective economy related to illegal file-sharing and are able to maintain a parallel cultural production and distribution? How are these parallel economies resetting the entire media ecosystem?
Potential contributors can send a 300-500 word abstract together with a brief bio by July 10th 2012 to roberto.braga@unibo.it and nrgiga@gmail.com
Communications of acceptance will be sent by July 30th 2012
The final paper is due by November 30th 2012
Papers can be in Italian or English but the book will be published in Italian. Curators will take care of translations from English to italian. On author’s request, the English version of the papers will be published on a dedicated site.
The final book would be published in March 2013
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