Social Media and Music: The Digital Field of Cultural Production

Social Media and Music: The Digital Field of Cultural Production
ISBN-10
143311447X
ISBN-13
9781433114472
Category
Music
Pages
139
Language
English
Published
2012
Publisher
Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
Author
Hiesun Cecilia Suhr

Description

This book explores social networking sites as the digital field of cultural production by loosely drawing from Pierre Bourdieu's notion of field and capital. The book examines four case studies on MySpace, YouTube, Second Life, and Indaba Music, and the roles and the impact they have on the music industry and musicians. In doing so, the author explores the groundbreaking developments that empower independent musicians and problematizes the emergence of a variety of issues symptomatic of social media environments at the height of convergence culture.

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