Digital Renaissance What Data and Economics Tell Us About the Future of Popular Culture

How digital technology is upending the traditional creative industries-and why that's a good thing

The digital revolution poses a mortal threat to the major creative industries-music, publishing, television, and the movies. Cheap, easy self-producing is eroding the position of the gatekeepers and guardians of culture. Does this revolution herald the collapse of culture, as some commentators claim? Far from it. In Digital Renaissance, Joel Waldfogel argues that digital technology is enabling a new golden age of popular culture-a digital renaissance. Analyzing decades of production and sales data, as well as bestseller and best-of lists, Waldfogel finds that the new digital model is just as powerful at generating high-quality, successful work as the old industry model, and in many cases more so.

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Joel Waldfogel

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How digital technology is upending the traditional creative industries - and why that's a good thing

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• Autori: Joel Waldfogel
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 30.11.2020
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie
• EAN: 9780691208640
• ISBN: 978-0-691-20864-0
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Categorie: Marketing, Internet, DVD, Bollywood, Songwriter, Photography, Website, Technology, Netflix, Cultural Industry, Television, e-book, Economics, iTunes, Episode, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, Entrepreneurship, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior, Technological change, book, Copyright, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Photographer, Spotify, income, Hulu, Bruce Springsteen, Business innovation, Career, Intellectual Property, Customer, Music Industry, Publishing, The New York Times, Self-Publishing, Calculation, Retail, Napster, Novelist, Business competition, Payment, Airplay, iTunes Store, Popular Music, Kindle Direct Publishing, Newspaper, Ownership and organization of enterprises, Ownership & Organization Of Enterprises, Media, Information & Communication Industries, theft, Economist, Telecommunication, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups, Film Industry, Publication, availability, long tail, piracy, Record Label, Home Video, filmmaking, Asher, Quantity, Cost Reduction, sibling, Make Money, Billboard 200, Cinemax, digital camera, Box office, Marginal Cost, Network effect, Subscription business model, Wide Variety, IMDb, MusicBrainz, Independent record label, Recording Industry Association of America, Production budget, Major film studio, Metacritic