Popular Communication, Piracy and Social Change

Jonas Andersson Schwarz is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Södertörn University, Sweden. He specializes in digital media cultures and technologies, and how these are structurally conditioned. Patrick Burkart is Professor of Communication at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. He researches information law and policy, political economy, and popular communication, and is co-editor in chief of Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture.

Introduction: Piracy and Social Change 1. Mobility Through Piracy, or How Steven Seagal Got to Malawi 2. "Honorable Piracy" and Chile’s Digital Transition 3. Piracy, Geoblocking, and Australian Access to Niche Independent Cinema 4. Anti-Market Research: Piracy, New Media Metrics, and Commodity Communities 5. The Piratical Ethos in Streams of Language 6. The Media Archaeology of File Sharing: Broadcasting Computer Code to Swedish Homes 7. Anonymous and the Political Ethos of Hacktivism