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A comprehensive introduction to the mutual shaping of technological and societal change in the recording industry.
Offers an up-to-date assessment of the detailed process involved in the technological development of the digital recording industry, featuring a number of topical cases and examples including Napster, Apple, YouTube, and Spotify.
Moves beyond traditional views of technological change by looking at multiple loci and their respective roles and contributions to technological development and innovation practices.
Draws insights from across Science and Technology Studies, and in particular the Social Shaping of Technology perspectives of Donald MacKenzie and Judy Wajcman.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book offers a new understanding of digital disruption in the recording industry. It captures the complexity of the innovation processes that brought about technological development, which arose as a result of interaction across the circuit of the recording business – production, distribution, valorisation, and consumption. By offering a more sophisticated account than the prevailing dichotomy, the book exposes deterministic myths surrounding the radical transformation of the industry.
Reviews
“This volume is essential reading for anyone wondering how the current state of music access happened.” (Ed Komara, ARSC, Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal, Vol. 52 (1), 2021)
“Hyojung Sun’s Digital Revolution Tamed focuses on the most recent developments in the disruption of the recorded music industry, highlighting the mismatch in the impact of the digital era between the initial predictions and what actually happened. The qualitative methodology includes a range of robust supporting official statistics along with case studies to describe the innovations over the past 25 years. A book such as this should be essential reading for those wishing to understand how the entire recorded music industry has been forced to evolve to meet the needs of its customers and stakeholders and, even, it is hoped to become more transparent and fair.” (Dennis Collopy, Senior Research Fellow, University of Hertfordshire, UK)Authors and Affiliations
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Creative Industries Institute, Ulster University, Belfast, UK
Hyojung Sun
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Digital Revolution Tamed
Book Subtitle: The Case of the Recording Industry
Authors: Hyojung Sun
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93022-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93021-3Published: 16 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06571-3Published: 03 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93022-0Published: 03 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 328
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Science and Technology Studies, Music, IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property, Digital/New Media