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Call for Papers: “Consuming the ‘Illegal’”

July 10, 2011
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Call for Papers: “Consuming the ‘Illegal’”

Special Issue on Consuming the ‘Illegal’: Situating Online Piracy in Everyday Experience Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (Vol 19, no 1, February 2013) Guest editors: Robert Jewitt, University of Sunderland, UK; Jason Rutter, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium; Majid Yar, University of Hull, UK Research interest on peer-to-peer file exchange through services such as BitTorrent and file lockers such a MegaUpload have tended to view piracy as a product of legislative, criminal, behavioural or business contexts. It has often adopted a priori assumptions that consumers of pirated goods are ‘deviant’, ‘unethical’ or demonstrate consumer...

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Draft programme for ESF Exploratory Workshop on Consuming the Illegal

January 31, 2011
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Draft programme for ESF Exploratory Workshop on Consuming the Illegal

The draft programme for European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on ‘Consuming the Illegal: Situating Digital Piracy in Everyday Experience’ is now available below. The workshop will take place at The Catholic University of Leuven between Sunday 17th April and Tuesday 19th April, 2011. Bringing researchers from a range of social science disciplines the workshop aims to develop theoretical and methodological perspectives to examine consumer behaviour, practices and understandings to investigate a phenomenon usually framed as deviant. Presentations will be organised under four themes. Each of these thematic sessions will last for two hours and feature several presentations each of...

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ESF Exploratory Workshop on Consuming the Illegal

November 30, 2010
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ESF Exploratory Workshop on Consuming the Illegal

I have secured funding from the last European Science Foundation’s Exploratory Workshop competition for a workshop on piracy. ‘Consuming the Illegal: Situating Digital Piracy in Everyday Experience’ is planned to take place at The Catholic University of Leuven between Sunday 17th April and Tuesday 19th April, 2011. The workshop will include contributions from Fiona Macmillan, David Wall and Majid Yar, placing internet piracy within a context of research on consumption and everyday practice. Bringing researchers from a range of social science disciplines the workshop aims to develop theoretical and methodological perspectives to examine consumer behaviour, practices and understandings to...

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CfP: New Technologies and the Changing Landscapes of Leisure

August 11, 2010
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CfP: New Technologies and the Changing Landscapes of Leisure

Call for Submissions for an Edited Collection Chapters exploring the use and impact of new technologies on leisure experiences are sought for a proposed book. Abstracts are requested by 15th October 2010 with a view to publication following successful review and publisher selection. The full call for papers can be viewed and downloaded  from Scibd. Technologies and platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, computer games, streaming media and smartphones, augmented reality services and haptic sensors along with an always-on and ever-connected culture have significantly transformed the Western world spends its leisure time. New technologies have enabled people to amplify and...

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Downloading as Deviance

July 7, 2010
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Downloading as Deviance

Image by Rami ™ via Flickr Posted an update of this on Scribed on Aug 2011.   One of the papers I’m currently working on is ‘Downloading as Deviance: Discourses of immorality, consumer ethics and the practice of internet piracy’. It still needs some polishing but I am keen to get feedback on what I’ve written so far so have been circulating it amongst colleagues. The paper looks at the way internet piracy is framed as theft and therefore immoral and asks how useful really is such an approach? What is to be gained from regarding customers as criminals?...

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The Consumption of Counterfeit Goods: ‘Here be Pirates?’

July 7, 2010
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The Consumption of Counterfeit Goods: ‘Here be Pirates?’

In this paper from the British journal, Sociology, I explore whether it is rally useful to look at the downloaded of copyrighted good such as film and music as subcultral or opositional as some researchers have done. Instead I argue that piracy is much more routine, common and everyday. Abstract Image via Wikipedia Social science, policy and popular discourse around counterfeiting regularly position consumers of counterfeit goods as part of a technological elite or motivated by anti- capitalist or anti-corporate positions. In order to explore this construction and highlight its associated limitations, this paper presents quantitative data collected through...

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