First Monday October 2014

Readers:

First Monday has just published the October 2014 (volume 19, number 10) issue at http://firstmonday.org/issue/current. This issue is a special issue, entitled "Napster, 15 years on: Rethinking digital music distribution".

The following papers are included in this special issue:

First Monday
Volume 19, number 10 - 6 October 2014

Editorial: On the 15-year anniversary of Napster --- Digital music as boundary object
by Raphaël Nowak and Andrew Whelan

Fifteen years of ‘Utopia’: Napster and Pitchfork as technologies of democratization
by David Carter and Ian Rogers

Copyright and the architecture of digital delivery
by Dan L. Burk

Napster and the press: Framing music technology
by Andrea L. Guzman and Steve Jones

Explaining the rise and fall of the Warez MP3 scene: An empirical account from the inside
by Ard Huizing and Jan A. van der Wal

Challenging opportunities: When Indian regional music gets online
by Florence Nowak

“This video is not available in Germany”: Online discourses on the German collecting society GEMA and YouTube 
by Philip Stade

The new romantics: Authenticity, participation and the aesthetics of piracy
by Margie Borschke

Investigating the interactions between individuals and music technologies within contemporary modes of music consumption
by Raphaël Nowak

“Mi wantem musik blong mi hemi blong evriwan” [“I want my music to be for everyone”]: Digital developments, copyright and music circulation in Port Vila, Vanuatu
by Monika Stern

Napster and beyond: How online music can transform the dynamics of musical production and consumption in DIY subcultures
by Jhessica Reia

Improvisation in the digital age: New narratives in jazz promotion and dissemination
by Haftor Medbøe and José Dias

Applications and implications of digital audio databases for the field of ethnomusicology: A discussion of the CNRS - Musée de l’Homme sound archives           	
by Stéphanie Khoury and Joséphine Simonnot

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With the contents of the October 2014 issue, First Monday has published, since May 1996, 1,410 papers in 221 issues, written by 1,931 different authors.

Thanks for your continuing interest in our work,

Edward J Valauskas
Chief Editor and Founder, First Monday

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