This book investigates the role of culture in the digital age. The author analyzes a number of current problems, e.g. how culture functions under market conditions, what role money plays in this process, what kind of support the consumer needs to choose a product which meets his taste while the number of commercialized cultural products is constantly increasing. The book offers a great number of facts concerning the various markets of culture, such as the sound recording industry, the film industry, the fashion business and the internet. Special attention is drawn to the grey segments of economy, i.e. the role of piracy and speculators, the activities of semi-legal file-exchanging internet services. It does away with a number of existing myths revealing the gaps of the"white" markets. Its main aim is to offer new guidelines and a tool to handlethe economic transformations in the sphere of culture and to cast a differentglance at many phenomena of modern culture. INDICE: A Promising Model for the Music Business.- Adverse Selection in the Cultural Industries.- The Economic Logic of Creative Reputations.- The Concept of Welfare in Culture.
- ISBN: 978-3-540-79882-8
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 635
- Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés