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100 1 $aStrangelove, Michael.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91040791
245 14 $aThe empire of mind :$bdigital piracy and the anti-capitalist movement /$cMichael Strangelove.
260 $aToronto ;$aBuffalo :$bUniversity of Toronto Press,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $a337 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aDigital futures
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [285]-312) and indexes.
505 00 $g1.$tCapitalism and the limits to thought -- $g2.$tContent and audiences beyond control -- $g3.$tThe abnormalization of the Internet -- $g4.$tCulture jamming and the transformation of cultural heresies -- $g5.$tNaughty Barbies and greasy clowns -- $g6.$tOnline journalism and the subversion of commercial news -- $g7.$tUtopic capitalism, global resistance, and the new public sphere.
520 1 $a"Where many critics see the Internet as an instrument of corporate hegemony, Michael Strangelove sees something else: an alternative space inhabited by communities dedicated to anarchic freedom, culture jamming, alternative journalism, and resistance to authoritarian forms of consumer capitalism and globalization. In The Empire of Mind, Strangelove presents the compelling argument that the Internet and new digital communication technology actually undermine the power of capital, producing an alternative symbolic economy." "Strangelove contends that the Internet breaks with the capitalist logic of commodification and that, while television produces a passive consumer audience, Internet audiences are more active, creative, and subversive. Writers, activists, and artists on the Internet undermine commercial media and its management of consumer behaviour, a behaviour that is challenged by the Web's tendency towards the disintegration of intellectual property rights. Case studies describe the invention of new meaning given to cultural and consumer icons like Barbie and McDonald's and explore how novel modes of online news production alter the representation of the world produced by the mainstream, corporate press." "In the course of exploring new media, The Empire of Mind also makes apparent that digital piracy will not be eliminated. The Internet community effectively converts private property into public, thereby presenting serious obstacles to the management of consumer behaviour and significantly eroding brand value. Much to the dismay of the corporate sector, online communities are uninterested in the ethics of private property. In fact, the entire philosophical framework on which capitalism is based is threatened by these alternative means of cultural production."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aInternet$xSocial aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009127185
650 0 $aMass media$xSocial aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85081876
650 0 $aPiracy (Copyright)$xSocial aspects.
830 0 $aDigital futures.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004034639
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