The Informal Media Economy
Ramon Lobato
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Description for The Informal Media Economy
Paperback. How are e-book pirates changing the publishing industry? What do ticket scalpers and internet search companies have in common? What role does organised crime play in the global movie business? How do 'jailbroken' iPhones drive innovation? What does a '. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; KNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
How are “grey market” imports changing media industries? What is the role of piracy in developing new markets for movies and TV shows? How do jailbroken iPhones drive innovation?
The Informal Media Economy provides a vivid, original, and genuinely transnational account of contemporary media, by showing how the interactions between formal and informal media systems are a feature of all nations – rich and poor, large and small.
Shifting the focus away from the formal businesses and public enterprises that have long occupied media researchers, this book charts a parallel world of cultural intermediaries ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polity
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
339g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745670324
SKU
V9780745670324
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-15
About Ramon Lobato
Ramon Lobato is an Australian Research Council postdoctoral research fellow at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. Julian Thomas is Director of the Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology
Reviews for The Informal Media Economy
"The Informal Media Economy may be the most significant media studies volume published this year. Reaching beyond the tired platitudes and self-interested rhetoric of media piracy debates, Lobato and Thomas examine the elaborate interdependence between formal and informal media economies. The book ranges across seemingly discrete corners of the media economy, examining such issues as innovation, circulation and value. Along ... Read more