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The politics of con...
The politics of contraband - The honor economies of the warez scene
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- Rehn, Alf (author)
- KTH,Industriell ekonomi och organisation
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- Elsevier BV, 2004
- 2004
- English.
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In: The Journal of Socio-Economics. - : Elsevier BV. - 1053-5357 .- 1879-1239. ; 33:3, s. 359-374
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Abstract
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- Lodged within the Internet's increasingly commercialized webs there exists a thriving subculture that has developed an economy all its own. Specifically, a modern gift economy, a consistent and internally rational structure of actively anti-economic behavior that presents an interesting juxtaposition to our contemporary notions of economy. Based on an extended ethnography, this subculture is analyzed as a society ordered by agonistic play and gift-giving as economy. The contribution can best be described as adding ethnographic data from the post-industrial phase in Western economic development to the discussion of gift economies, a discourse that has usually dealt only with archaic communities.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Nationalekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economics (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Gift economy
- Gifts
- Potlatch
- Software piracy
Publication and Content Type
- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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