{"product_id":"9781441166432","title":"Digital Prohibition: Piracy and Authorship in New Media Art","description":"The act of creation requires us to remix existing cultural content and yet recent sweeping changes to copyright laws have criminalized the creative act as a violation of corporate rights in a commodified world. Copyright was originally designed to protect publishers, not authors, and has now gained a stranglehold on our ability to transport, read, write, teach and publish digital materials. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContrasting Western models with issues of piracy as practiced in Asia, \u003cem\u003eDigital Prohibition\u003c\/em\u003e explores the concept of authorship as a capitalist institution and posits the Marxist idea of the multitude (à la Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, and Paulo Virno) as a new collaborative model for creation in the digital age. Looking at how digital culture has transformed unitary authorship from its book-bound parameters into a collective and dispersed endeavor, Dr. Guertin examines process-based forms as diverse as blogs, Facebook, Twitter, performance art, immersive environments, smart mobs, hacktivism, tactical media, machinima, generative computer games (like Spore and The Sims) and augmented reality. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154945523952,"sku":"9781441166432","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781441166432_p0.jpg?v=1763798177","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781441166432","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}