Informal Media Economy

How are "grey market" imports changing media
industries? What is the role of piracy in developing new markets
for movies and TV shows? How do jailbroken iPhones drive
innovation?

The Informal Media Economy provides a vivid, original, and
genuinely transnational account of contemporary media, by showing
how the interactions between formal and informal media systems are
a feature of all nations - rich and poor, large and
small.

Shifting the focus away from the formal businesses and public
enterprises that have long occupied media researchers, this book
charts a parallel world of cultural intermediaries driving global
media production and circulation. It shows how unlicensed, untaxed,
or unregulated networks, which operate across the boundaries of
established media markets, have been a driving force of media
industry transformation. The book opens up new insights on a range
of topical issues in media studies, from the creative disruptions
of digitisation to amateur production, piracy and cybercrime.

Auteur

Ramon Lobato is an Australian Research Council postdoctoral research fellow at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.

Julian Thomas is Director of the Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology

Résumé

How are grey market imports changing media industries? What is the role of piracy in developing new markets for movies and TV shows? How do jailbroken iPhones drive innovation?

The Informal Media Economy provides a vivid, original, and genuinely transnational account of contemporary media, by showing how the interactions between formal and informal media systems are a feature of all nations rich and poor, large and small.

Shifting the focus away from the formal businesses and public enterprises that have long occupied media researchers, this book charts a parallel world of cultural intermediaries driving global media production and circulation. It shows how unlicensed, untaxed, or unregulated networks, which operate across the boundaries of established media markets, have been a driving force of media industry transformation. The book opens up new insights on a range of topical issues in media studies, from the creative disruptions of digitisation to amateur production, piracy and cybercrime.

Contenu

Introduction

1. Formal and informal media

2. Entrepreneurs

3. Work

4. Geographies

5. Regulation

6. Brands

7. Metrics

Conclusion

References

Index