Digital Revolution Tamed

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This book explores why widespread predictions of the radical transformation in the recording industry did not materialise. Although the growing revenue generated from streaming signals the recovery of the digital music business, it is important to ask to what extent is the current development a response to digital innovation. Hyojung Sun finds the answer in the detailed innovation process that has taken place since Napster. She reassesses the way digital music technologies were encultured in complex music valorisation processes and demonstrates how the industry has become reintermediated rather than disintermediated. 
This book offers a new understanding of digital disruption in the recording industry. It captures the complexity of the innovation processes that brought about technological development, which arose as a result of interaction across the circuit of the recording business – production, distribution, valorisation, and consumption. By offering a more sophisticated account than the prevailing dichotomy, the book exposes deterministic myths surrounding the radical transformation of the industry.
This book explores why widespread predictions of the radical transformation in the recording industry did not materialise. Although the growing revenue generated from streaming signals the recovery of the digital music business, it is important to ask to what extent is the current development a response to digital innovation. Hyojung Sun finds the answer in the detailed innovation process that has taken place since Napster. She reassesses the way digital music technologies were encultured in complex music valorisation processes and demonstrates how the industry has become reintermediated rather than disintermediated. 
This book offers a new understanding of digital disruption in the recording industry. It captures the complexity of the innovation processes that brought about technological development, which arose as a result of interaction across the circuit of the recording business – production, distribution, valorisation, and consumption. By offering a more sophisticated account than the prevailing dichotomy, the book exposes deterministic myths surrounding the radical transformation of the industry.
A comprehensive introduction to the mutual shaping of technological and societal change in the recording industry. Offers an up-to-date assessment of the detailed process involved in the technological development of the digital recording industry, featuring a number of topical cases and examples including Napster, Apple, YouTube, and Spotify. Moves beyond traditional views of technological change by looking at multiple loci and their respective roles and contributions to technological development and innovation practices. Draws insights from across Science and Technology Studies, and in particular the Social Shaping of Technology perspectives of Donald MacKenzie and Judy Wajcman.

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Digital Recording Industry digital technology copyright regulation Evolution of Music Technologies Napster CD's Youtube Peer-To-Peer iTunes Networks of Creativity Networks of Reproduction Networks of Distribution/Promotion Networks of Consumption

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“This volume is essential reading for anyone wondering how the current state of music access happened.” (Ed Komara, ARSC, Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal, Vol. 52 (1), 2021)

“Hyojung Sun’s Digital Revolution Tamed focuses on the most recent developments in the disruption of the recorded music industry, highlighting the mismatch in the impact of the digital era between the initial predictions and what actually happened. The qualitative methodology includes a range of robust supporting official statistics along with case studies to describe the innovations over the past 25 years. A book such as this should be essential reading for those wishing to understand how the entire recorded music industry has been forced to evolve to meet the needs of its customers and stakeholders and, even, it is hoped to become more transparent and fair.” (Dennis Collopy, Senior Research Fellow, University of Hertfordshire, UK)
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