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Musicians and the Upside of Downloading

Chris Castiglione | 11 September 2009, 10:49 am | tags: , ,

The recording industry has indeed suffered from declining sales over the past ten years and it may be tempting to point the blame at file sharing, yet a mistake that is commonly made is to claim that the recording industry crisis is a music industry crisis. The rock band Wilco is one of the first bands to famously benefit from P2P file sharing…

Video Vortex: Participatory Culture

Twan Eikelenboom | 20 January 2008, 11:55 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,
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Do you think Participatory Culture is all about friendly cooperation? Fans flocking to Star Wars conventions or squad based play in the latest MMORPG? The Participatory Culture session at the international Video Vortex conference in Amsterdam, proved that practices such as “cutthroat capitalism” also belong in this category. And how can,…

Picnic Creative China

Qilan Zhao | 03 October 2007, 11:56 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

Last Friday, I attended Creative China, a partner event at Picnic 2007. One of the main topics of this seminar was the use of Internet versus government regulations and Internet restrictions in China. The Internet is by no means a tool for self-expression, if it was up to the Chinese government to decide, but in reality, Chinese users are vehemently…