The Resource Digital renaissance : what data and economics tell us about the future of popular culture, Joel Waldfogel
Digital renaissance : what data and economics tell us about the future of popular culture, Joel Waldfogel
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- Summary
- How digital technology is upending the traditional creative industries--and why that might be a good thingThe digital revolution poses a mortal threat to the major creative industries--music, publishing, television, and the movies. The ease with which digital files can be copied and distributed has unleashed a wave of piracy with disastrous effects on revenue. Cheap, easy self-publishing is eroding the position of these gatekeepers and guardians of culture. Does this revolution herald the collapse of culture, as some commentators claim? Far from it. In Digital Renaissance, Joel Waldfogel argues that digital technology is enabling a new golden age of popular culture, a veritable digital renaissance. By reducing the costs of production, distribution, and promotion, digital technology is democratizing access to the cultural marketplace. More books, songs, television shows, and movies are being produced than ever before. Nor does this mean a tidal wave of derivative, poorly produced kitsch; analyzing decades of production and sales data, as well as bestseller and best-of lists, Waldfogel finds that the new digital model is just as successful at producing high-quality, successful work as the old industry model, and in many cases more so. The vaunted gatekeeper role of the creative industries proves to have been largely mythical. The high costs of production have stifled creativity in industries that require ever-bigger blockbusters to cover the losses on ever-more-expensive failures. Are we drowning in a tide of cultural silt, or living in a golden age for culture? The answers in Digital Renaissance may surprise you. -- Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Contents
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- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; 1 The Creative Industries: Risky, Expensive, and Worth Preserving; PART I: A TOUR OF SOME MAJOR CULTURAL INDUSTRIES: MUSIC, MOVIES, TELEVISION SHOWS, BOOKS, AND PHOTOGRAPHY; 2 Digitization in Music: Rock On?; 3 Digitization in Movies: Hollywood Ending?; 4 Digitization in Television: Has the Vast Wasteland Blossomed?; 5 Digitization in Books: Fifty Shades of Dreck?; 6 Digitization Further Afield: Photography, Travel Agents, and Beyond; 7 The Value of the Digital Renaissance: The Long Tail and a Whole Lot More
- PART II: COMING ATTRACTIONS: FARM TEAMS, BUNDLING, PIRATES, VIKINGS, AND TROLLS8 The Digital Farm System, and the Promise of Bundling; 9 A Tale of Two Intellectual Property Regimes: Lessons from Hollywood and Bollywood; 10 Digitization, the French, and the Return of the Vikings; 11 Bridge Trolls: The Possible Threat of Technological Gatekeepers; 12 Crisis or Renaissance?; Notes; References; Index
- Isbn
- 9780691185439
- Label
- Digital renaissance : what data and economics tell us about the future of popular culture
- Title
- Digital renaissance
- Title remainder
- what data and economics tell us about the future of popular culture
- Statement of responsibility
- Joel Waldfogel
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- How digital technology is upending the traditional creative industries--and why that might be a good thingThe digital revolution poses a mortal threat to the major creative industries--music, publishing, television, and the movies. The ease with which digital files can be copied and distributed has unleashed a wave of piracy with disastrous effects on revenue. Cheap, easy self-publishing is eroding the position of these gatekeepers and guardians of culture. Does this revolution herald the collapse of culture, as some commentators claim? Far from it. In Digital Renaissance, Joel Waldfogel argues that digital technology is enabling a new golden age of popular culture, a veritable digital renaissance. By reducing the costs of production, distribution, and promotion, digital technology is democratizing access to the cultural marketplace. More books, songs, television shows, and movies are being produced than ever before. Nor does this mean a tidal wave of derivative, poorly produced kitsch; analyzing decades of production and sales data, as well as bestseller and best-of lists, Waldfogel finds that the new digital model is just as successful at producing high-quality, successful work as the old industry model, and in many cases more so. The vaunted gatekeeper role of the creative industries proves to have been largely mythical. The high costs of production have stifled creativity in industries that require ever-bigger blockbusters to cover the losses on ever-more-expensive failures. Are we drowning in a tide of cultural silt, or living in a golden age for culture? The answers in Digital Renaissance may surprise you. -- Provided by publisher
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- Waldfogel, Joel
- Index
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- Text in English
- Literary form
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- Popular culture
- Cultural property
- Cultural industries
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- Cultural property
- Popular culture
- Unterhaltungsindustrie
- Digitale Revolution
- Label
- Digital renaissance : what data and economics tell us about the future of popular culture, Joel Waldfogel
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- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; 1 The Creative Industries: Risky, Expensive, and Worth Preserving; PART I: A TOUR OF SOME MAJOR CULTURAL INDUSTRIES: MUSIC, MOVIES, TELEVISION SHOWS, BOOKS, AND PHOTOGRAPHY; 2 Digitization in Music: Rock On?; 3 Digitization in Movies: Hollywood Ending?; 4 Digitization in Television: Has the Vast Wasteland Blossomed?; 5 Digitization in Books: Fifty Shades of Dreck?; 6 Digitization Further Afield: Photography, Travel Agents, and Beyond; 7 The Value of the Digital Renaissance: The Long Tail and a Whole Lot More
- PART II: COMING ATTRACTIONS: FARM TEAMS, BUNDLING, PIRATES, VIKINGS, AND TROLLS8 The Digital Farm System, and the Promise of Bundling; 9 A Tale of Two Intellectual Property Regimes: Lessons from Hollywood and Bollywood; 10 Digitization, the French, and the Return of the Vikings; 11 Bridge Trolls: The Possible Threat of Technological Gatekeepers; 12 Crisis or Renaissance?; Notes; References; Index
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- on1051770802
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- 1 online resource
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- online
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- 9780691185439
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- c
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- 22573/ctvc6381m
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- (OCoLC)1051770802
- Label
- Digital renaissance : what data and economics tell us about the future of popular culture, Joel Waldfogel
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- online resource
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
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- txt
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- rdacontent
- Contents
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- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; 1 The Creative Industries: Risky, Expensive, and Worth Preserving; PART I: A TOUR OF SOME MAJOR CULTURAL INDUSTRIES: MUSIC, MOVIES, TELEVISION SHOWS, BOOKS, AND PHOTOGRAPHY; 2 Digitization in Music: Rock On?; 3 Digitization in Movies: Hollywood Ending?; 4 Digitization in Television: Has the Vast Wasteland Blossomed?; 5 Digitization in Books: Fifty Shades of Dreck?; 6 Digitization Further Afield: Photography, Travel Agents, and Beyond; 7 The Value of the Digital Renaissance: The Long Tail and a Whole Lot More
- PART II: COMING ATTRACTIONS: FARM TEAMS, BUNDLING, PIRATES, VIKINGS, AND TROLLS8 The Digital Farm System, and the Promise of Bundling; 9 A Tale of Two Intellectual Property Regimes: Lessons from Hollywood and Bollywood; 10 Digitization, the French, and the Return of the Vikings; 11 Bridge Trolls: The Possible Threat of Technological Gatekeepers; 12 Crisis or Renaissance?; Notes; References; Index
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- on1051770802
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- Extent
- 1 online resource
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- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780691185439
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctvc6381m
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1051770802
Subject
- Cultural industries -- Technological innovations
- Cultural property -- Protection
- Cultural property -- Protection
- Digitale Revolution
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Consumer Behavior
- Popular culture
- Popular culture
- Unterhaltungsindustrie
- Electronic books
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries | General
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