Books by Patrick Burkart
Routledge, 2020
This edited collection considers various meanings of the "Spotification" of music and other media... more This edited collection considers various meanings of the "Spotification" of music and other media. Specifically, it replies to the editor's call to address the changes in media cultures and industries accompanying the transition to streaming media and media services. Streaming media services have become part of daily life all over the world, with Spotify, in particular, inheriting and reconfiguring characteristics of older ways of publishing, distributing, and consuming media.
The contributors look to the broader community of music, media, and cultural researchers to spell out some of the implications of the Spotification of music and popular culture. These include changes in personal media consumption and production, educational processes, and the work of media industries. Interdisciplinary scholarship on commercial digital distribution is needed more than ever to illuminate the qualitative changes to production, distribution, and consumption accompanying streaming music and television.
This book represents the latest research and theory on the conversion of mass markets for recorded music to streaming services.
University of California Press, 2019
Wesleyan University Press, 2010
Rowman & Littlefield, 2006
Routledge, 2016
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Introduction: Piracy and Social Change Jonas Andersson Schwarz and Patrick Bur... more Table of Contents
Introduction: Piracy and Social Change Jonas Andersson Schwarz and Patrick Burkart
1. Mobility Through Piracy, or How Steven Seagal Got to Malawi Jonathan Gray
2. "Honorable Piracy" and Chile’s Digital Transition Jennifer Ashley
3. Piracy, Geoblocking, and Australian Access to Niche Independent Cinema Rebecca Beirne
4. Anti-Market Research: Piracy, New Media Metrics, and Commodity Communities Jeremy Wade Morris
5. The Piratical Ethos in Streams of Language Justin Lewis
6. The Media Archaeology of File Sharing: Broadcasting Computer Code to Swedish Homes Jörgen Skägeby
7. Anonymous and the Political Ethos of Hacktivism Luke Goode
2017, Routledge
A glimpse of Telefonos de Mexico (Telmex) immediately following its privatization and sale to Car... more A glimpse of Telefonos de Mexico (Telmex) immediately following its privatization and sale to Carlos Slim Helu, and before the spin-off and spectacular rise of America Movil.
Copyright 2000, Patrick Burkart.
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Papers by Patrick Burkart
Music Research Annual, 2023
International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2023
STUDIES IN CONFLICT & TERRORISM, 2021
The “Unite the Right” rally that subsumed Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 will be remembered fo... more The “Unite the Right” rally that subsumed Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 will be remembered for its haunting torch-lit rally, massive display of neo-Nazi and white nationalist paraphernalia, bloody riots, and murderous car attack. Despite extensive media coverage, a comprehensive, scholarly, synthetic study of the planning and execution of the Unite the Right (UtR) has yet to emerge. Drawing from a repository of 5,000 primary texts and digital artifacts and using the lens of symbolic interactionism and levels of analysis theory, this study details the event as manifested in three theatres: symbolically mediated, systems-technical, and physical. Three findings are discussed: first, the “event” was centrally organized as a simulacrum of a military campaign; second, the agitational propaganda and information warfare was extensive and designed to publicize, recruit, and terrorize; and third, the city of Charlottesville suffered two cyberattacks timed for meaningful symbolic interaction with movement actors and public officials. Based on these three findings, the authors offer the term “immersive terrorism” to describe the extended, transmediated, multi-theatre nature of the UtR terror campaign.
The information society, 2019
This article investigates contemporary cultural policy reforms enabled by paid digital media dist... more This article investigates contemporary cultural policy reforms enabled by paid digital media distribution services, taking the case of the integration of Spotify into the Swedish public media system. Specifically, it reflects on the conflicts arising over the prioritization of digital distribution over cultural preservation, during the gradual substitution of the Spotify digital services for the services provided by the traditional material media archive, the Grammofonarkivet. It considers the factors influencing changes in the Swedish cultural policy environment and the nature of the complaints and human rights claims made by employees of the Grammofonarkivet to UNESCO regarding its structural transformation. It also postulates a “Spotification” model of public service media emerging in Sweden but potentially affecting other countries with public media systems served by traditional media archives.
This article examines the development of hacking and cybersecurity software packages as commoditi... more This article examines the development of hacking and cybersecurity software packages as commodities, based on an international political economy of vendors and clients operating in the interstices of international law. Offensive hacking and defensive cybersecurity tools offer new means for surveillance of critics, journalists, and human rights workers, especially in corrupt or authoritarian political systems. The article provides a case study of the Hacking Team, an international “cybersecurity” firm offering spyware and surveillance systems to government security agencies, which was itself hacked and “doxed” in 2015. The leak of documents contributes new knowledge of an international political economy for software products, which exploits the digital rights of targets and which could further undermine general Internet security.
International Journal of Communication, Mar 26, 2015
International Journal of Communication, 2015
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Books by Patrick Burkart
The contributors look to the broader community of music, media, and cultural researchers to spell out some of the implications of the Spotification of music and popular culture. These include changes in personal media consumption and production, educational processes, and the work of media industries. Interdisciplinary scholarship on commercial digital distribution is needed more than ever to illuminate the qualitative changes to production, distribution, and consumption accompanying streaming music and television.
This book represents the latest research and theory on the conversion of mass markets for recorded music to streaming services.
Introduction: Piracy and Social Change Jonas Andersson Schwarz and Patrick Burkart
1. Mobility Through Piracy, or How Steven Seagal Got to Malawi Jonathan Gray
2. "Honorable Piracy" and Chile’s Digital Transition Jennifer Ashley
3. Piracy, Geoblocking, and Australian Access to Niche Independent Cinema Rebecca Beirne
4. Anti-Market Research: Piracy, New Media Metrics, and Commodity Communities Jeremy Wade Morris
5. The Piratical Ethos in Streams of Language Justin Lewis
6. The Media Archaeology of File Sharing: Broadcasting Computer Code to Swedish Homes Jörgen Skägeby
7. Anonymous and the Political Ethos of Hacktivism Luke Goode
2017, Routledge
Copyright 2000, Patrick Burkart.
CreativeCommons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. You are free to:
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.
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Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.
No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Papers by Patrick Burkart
The contributors look to the broader community of music, media, and cultural researchers to spell out some of the implications of the Spotification of music and popular culture. These include changes in personal media consumption and production, educational processes, and the work of media industries. Interdisciplinary scholarship on commercial digital distribution is needed more than ever to illuminate the qualitative changes to production, distribution, and consumption accompanying streaming music and television.
This book represents the latest research and theory on the conversion of mass markets for recorded music to streaming services.
Introduction: Piracy and Social Change Jonas Andersson Schwarz and Patrick Burkart
1. Mobility Through Piracy, or How Steven Seagal Got to Malawi Jonathan Gray
2. "Honorable Piracy" and Chile’s Digital Transition Jennifer Ashley
3. Piracy, Geoblocking, and Australian Access to Niche Independent Cinema Rebecca Beirne
4. Anti-Market Research: Piracy, New Media Metrics, and Commodity Communities Jeremy Wade Morris
5. The Piratical Ethos in Streams of Language Justin Lewis
6. The Media Archaeology of File Sharing: Broadcasting Computer Code to Swedish Homes Jörgen Skägeby
7. Anonymous and the Political Ethos of Hacktivism Luke Goode
2017, Routledge
Copyright 2000, Patrick Burkart.
CreativeCommons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. You are free to:
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.
Under the following terms:
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.
No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Co-guest edited by Patrick Burkart and Jonas Andersson Schwarz