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Digital Renaissance: What Data and Economics Tell Us about the Future of Popular Culture Audiobook, by Joel Waldfogel Play Audiobook Sample

Digital Renaissance: What Data and Economics Tell Us about the Future of Popular Culture Audiobook

Digital Renaissance: What Data and Economics Tell Us about the Future of Popular Culture Audiobook, by Joel Waldfogel Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Mike Chamberlain Publisher: Highbridge Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: November 2018 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781684416257

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

16

Longest Chapter Length:

59:43 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

13:46 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

33:18 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

The digital revolution poses a mortal threat to the major creative industries—music, publishing, television, and the movies. The ease with which digital files can be copied and distributed has unleashed a wave of piracy with disastrous effects on revenue. Cheap, easy self-publishing is eroding the position of these 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 veritable digital renaissance.

By reducing the costs of production, distribution, and promotion, digital technology is democratizing access to the cultural marketplace. More books, songs, television shows, and movies are being produced than ever before. Nor does this mean a tidal wave of derivative, poorly produced kitsch; 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 successful at producing high-quality, successful work as the old industry model, and in many cases more so.

Are we drowning in a tide of cultural silt, or living in a golden age for culture? The answers in Digital Renaissance may surprise you.

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