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Mashing-up Culture: The Rise of User-generated Content
13th-14th May, 2009
Uppsala University, Sweden
Sampling and remixing, mash-ups and appropriation, wikis and podcasts are part of the digital creative milieu of the twenty-first century. Sites such as YouTube, Flickr and deviantART have offered new outlets for creativity and become hubs for innovative forms of collaboration thus playing their part in challenging modernist notions of what it means to be a creator as well as a consumer. User-generated content has draw upon the reuse of existing texts as well as new creations, bringing forward possibilities for new audiences and meanings while also raising questions about how digital texts are controlled through copyright and how intellectual property is [...]
The Cyberspace Research Unit at the University of Central Lancashire are seeking to appoint a Research Associate to work on COUNTER (Socio-economic and Cultural Impacts of the Consumption of Counterfeit Goods).
The post is fixed term for 18 months and the successful applicant will work as part of a European research team on a variety of activities including empirical research, deliverable preparation, organisational tasks and dissemination activities associated with the project. They will also be required to attend and present at Project Consortium and other relevant meetings, workshops and conferences in Europe and travel within the UK as [...]
With partners in Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Sweden, Slovenia and the United Kingdom COUNTER’s research into counterfeiting and piracy will focus on the consumption of leisure goods. The project will focus on the users of counterfeit goods, their motivations and behaviour in order to get a view of the current state of the market in Europe.
The [...]
Parthasarathy, M., & Mittelstaedt, R. A. (1995). Illegal adoption of a new product: A model of software piracy behavior. Advances in Consumer Research, 22, 693-698.
This paper is concerned with the decision process of computer software adopters, especially pirates. Based on past research, a model is proposed that contains two general normative constructs that influence the [...]
Koen, C. M., & Im, J. H. (1997). Software piracy and its legal implications. Information & Management, 31, 265-272.
Software piracy is a pervasive phenomenon in the wake of the proliferation of microcomputers in the end user computing environment. Software vendors and the software vendors’ trade association, the Software Publishers Association (SPA), have been very aggressive [...]
AlJabri, I., & AbdulGader, A. (1997). Software copyright infringements: An exploratory study of the effects of individual and peer beliefs. Omega-International Journal of Management Science, 25, 335-344.
Based on the reasoned action and the differential association theories, a model is derived to explore the effects of individual and peer beliefs on software copyright infringements in Saudi [...]
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