Special Issue #1: Music and the Internet — 4 July 2005

Introduction: Collecting the fragments of transformation
by David Beer

Tracking technological transformations

The Big Bumpy Shift: Digital Music via Mobile Internet
by Daniel P. Dolan (originally published in December 2000)

Technological and Social Drivers of Change in the Online Music Industry
by Mark Fox (originally published in February 2002)

Distribution, copyright and democracy

Giving Away Music to Make Money
by Michael Pfahl (originally published in August 2001)

Music in the Age of Free Distribution: MP3 and Society
by Kostas Kasaras (originally published in January 2002)

Rip, Mix, Burn: The Politics of Peer to Peer and Copyright Law
By Kathy Bowrey and Matthew Rimmer (originally published in August 2002)

Gifting technologies
by Kevin McGee and Jörgen Skågeby (originally published in December 2004)

Culture, community and consumption

The Napster Network Community
by Kacper Poblocki (originally published in November 2001)

Digital music and subculture: Sharing Files, Sharing styles
by Sean Ebare (originally published in February 2004)

Grey Tuesday, online cultural activism and the mash-up of music and politics
By Sam Howard-Spink (originally published in October 2004)

Reflection

How Will the Music Industry Weather the Globalization Storm?
by Wilfred Dolfsma (originally published in May 2000)

Artists’ earnings and copyright: A review of British and German music industry data in the context of digital technologies
By Martin Kretschmer (originally published in January 2005)

Reflecting on the digit(al)isation of music
by David Beer (originally published in February 2005)

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