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Structures of Participation in Digital Culture (Paperback): Joe Karaganis Structures of Participation in Digital Culture (Paperback)
Joe Karaganis
R709 Discovery Miles 7 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Digital technologies are engines of cultural innovation, from the virtualization of group networks and social identities to the digital convergence of textural and audio-visual media. User-centered content production, from Wikipedia and YouTube to Open Source, has become the emblem of this transformation, but the changes run deeper and wider than these novel organizational forms.

Digital culture is also about the transformation of what it means to be a creator within a vast and growing reservoir of media, data, computational power, and communicative possibilities. We have few tools and models for understanding the power of databases, network representations, filtering techniques, digital rights management, and other new architectures of agency and control. We have even fewer accounts of how these new capacities have transformed our shared cultures and our understanding of and capacities to act within them. This volume addresses these issues and supplies the demand for a comprehensive critical framework that places these developments in context.

Media Piracy in Emerging Economies (Paperback): Ed., Joe Karaganis Media Piracy in Emerging Economies (Paperback)
Ed., Joe Karaganis
R903 Discovery Miles 9 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Economics of Creativity - Art and Achievement under Uncertainty (Hardcover): Pierre-Michel Menger The Economics of Creativity - Art and Achievement under Uncertainty (Hardcover)
Pierre-Michel Menger; Translated by Steven Rendall, Amy Jacobs, Arianne Dorval, Lisette Eskinazi, …
R1,780 Discovery Miles 17 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Creative work has been celebrated as the highest form of achievement since at least Aristotle. But our understanding of the dynamics and market for creative work--artistic work in particular--often relies on unexamined cliches about individual genius, industrial engineering of talent, and the fickleness of fashion. Pierre-Michel Menger approaches the subject with new rigor, drawing on sociology, economics, and philosophy to build on the central insight that, unlike the work most of us do most of the time, creative work is governed by uncertainty. Without uncertainty, neither self-realization nor creative innovation is possible. And without techniques for managing uncertainty, neither careers nor profitable ventures would surface. In the absence of clear paths to success, an oversupply of artists and artworks generates boundless differentiation and competition. How can artists, customers, entrepreneurs, and critics judge merit? Menger disputes the notion that artistic success depends solely on good connections or influential managers and patrons. Talent matters. But the disparity between superstardom and obscurity may hinge initially on minor gaps in intrinsic ability. The benefits of early promise in competition and the tendency of elite professionals to team up with one another amplify and disproportionately reward even small differences. Menger applies his temporal and causal analysis of behavior under uncertainty to the careers and oeuvres of Beethoven and Rodin. The result is a thought-provoking book that brings clarity to our understanding of a world widely seen as either irrational or so free of standards that only power and manipulation count.

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