"Stealing Empire poses the question, "What possibilities for agency exist in the age of corporate globalisation?" Using the work of Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt as a point of entry, Adam Haupt delves into varied terrain to locate answers in this ground-breaking inquiry. He explores arguments abou
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t copyright via peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms such as Napster, free speech struggles, debates about access to information and open content licenses, and develops a politically incisive analysis of counterdiscourses produced by South African hip-hop artists. From empire stealing through their commodification of countercultures to the stealing empire activities of file-sharers, culture jammers and hip-hop activists, this book tells the story of people defining themselves as active, creative agents in a consumerist society." (Publisher description)
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"Featuring a wide range of exercises, examples, and images, this textbook provides a practical way of analyzing the discourses of the global media industries. Building on a comprehensive introduction to the history and theory of global media communication, specific case studies of lifestyle and ente
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rtainment media are explored with examples from films, global women's magazines, Vietnamese news reporting and computer war games. Finally, this book investigates how global media communication is produced, looking at the formats, languages and images used in creating media materials, both globally and in localized forms." (Publisher description)
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"Zunächst erfolgt ein Überblick über den Forschungsstand und die Quellenlage zum Thema Open Access, anschließend eine Begriffsdefinition. Daraufhin werden die Hintergründe der Open-Access-Bewegung aufgezeigt: Was sind die Ursachen und Ziele? Wie hat sich die Bewegung entwickelt? Außerdem werde
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n wichtige aktuelle Initiativen und Projekte vorgestellt. Im Anschluss daran werden Veröffentlichungsformen des Open-Access-Modells aufgezeigt und durch Beispiele veranschaulicht sowie Bekanntheitsgrad und Nutzung dieser alternativen Publikationsmöglichkeiten untersucht. Weiterhin werden die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen Urheberrecht, Verlagsvertrag und Lizenzen erläutert. Auf die häufig gestellte Frage „Wer bezahlt?“ wird im darauf folgenden Kapitel näher eingegangen. Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten und bestehende Geschäftsmodelle als Beispiele hierfür werden dargestellt. Abschließend erfolgt ein Überblick über Vorteile und Probleme von Open-Access-Veröffentlichungen sowie Reaktionen traditioneller Verlage." (Einleitung, Seite 7)
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"Commerce in Culture is an innovative study of how states have responded to the globalization of the film sector. Concerned with more than film content or substance, the book exposes the ongoing political and economic struggles that shape cultural production and trade in the world. The historical fo
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cus is on Hollywood's engagement with rivals and partners in two leading developing countries, Egypt and Mexico, beginning with the birth of their national film industries in the late 1920s. State and market institutions evolved differently in each context, acting like national prisms to mediate international competition and produce distinctive results. As filmmaking has become a dynamic focal point in the new economy, Commerce in Culture reveals a vital but neglected part of the global terrain." (Publisher description)
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"The academic publishing sector in South Africa is facing many changes and challenges in the post-1994 democracy, with most of the changes brought about by the Higher Education Act No. 101 of 1997. A recent challenge, or threat, to commercial publishers is the phenomenon, and proliferation, of self-
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publishing. Although not a trend commonly associated with academic textbook publishing, self-publishing has in recent years increased in frequency and to some extent influences the prospects of new business and profits by South African commercial publishers, especially when academic self-publishers of textbooks prescribe their self-published textbooks to their students for particular courses. This study aims to show that self-publishing exists within the South African academic community for a variety of reasons, and does in fact impact adversely on the market share of academic publishers." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2536)
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"Offre une approche socio-économique de l'édition et des marchés du livre au Burkina Faso. Il examine les aspects infrastructurels et le cadre organisationnel de la filière du livre et aborde des questions telles que les méthodes de distribution et l'émergence de librairies non conventionnelle
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s à Ouagadougou, connues sous le nom de « librairies par terre." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 445)
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"In China, unlike in Western cinema, documentary film, rather than fiction film, has been the dominant mode since 1949. In recent years, documentary TV programmes have experienced a meteoric rise. Arguing that there is a gradual process of 'democratization' in the media, in which documentaries play
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a significant role, this book discusses various types of Chinese documentaries, under both the planned and the market economy. It especially explores the relationship between documentaries and society, showing how, under the market economy, although the government continues to use the genre as propaganda to promote its ideologies and policies, documentaries are being used as a medium where public concerns and alternative voices can be heard." (Publisher description)
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