Shared files

Title: Shared files
Creator: Kibby, Marjorie
Relation: M/C Journal Vol. 6, Issue 2
Relation: http://journal.media-culture.org.au/journal/past_vol_6.php
Publisher: University of Queensland, Media and Cultural Studies Centre
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2003
Description: The carefully constructed record collection with detailed liner notes and displayable album cover art is little more than a quaint anachronism for the twenty-year-olds of 2003. For them, a music collection is more likely to be a fat, glovebox sized folder of anonymous CD ROMs. Affective investments in particular bands, releases, tracks, have been replaced by a desire for a sort of musical 'affluence' where the size and currency of the collection is valued, rather than the constituent components of the collection. The explanation for this transition from the collection of fetishised albums to the folder of disposable files lies in the increasing dissatisfaction with the CD album as a product, and the development of technology that enabled file sharing to become an effective music distribution method.
Subject: music collections; peer-to-peer; CDs; file-sharing; consumer satisfaction
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/34827
Identifier: uon:3728
Identifier: ISSN:1441-2616
Language: eng
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