Cultural Industries in the Digital Age: Some Provisional Conclusions
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Enrique Bustamante Media Culture Society 2004; 26; 803 DOI: 10.1177/0163443704047027 The online version of this article can be found at: http://mcs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/26/6/803
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Cultural industries in the Digital Age: some provisional conclusions
Enrique Bustamante
COMPLUTENSE UNIVERSITY
OF
MADRID, SPAIN
Translated from the Spanish by Philip Schlesinger and Jairo Lugo This study is based on the analysis of the seven main sectors – both in terms of political importance and of social influence – of contemporary culture and communication. It addresses the following: books, disks, cinema, the press, radio, television and the video games industry. The work addresses three main cross-cutting problematics that are considered to be crucial: intellectual property rights; the strategies of transnational multimedia groups; and the development of communication and cultural policies and their evolution in both the analogue and digital worlds (Bustamante, 2002, 2003). The framework that traditionally unified this apparently diverse group of elements was the concept of the ‘cultural industries’,1 which is still useful for analysing the transformations and the most important tendencies of the last decade. It is assumed that the future of our culture cannot escape from being determined by the evolution of the ‘old’ analogue world, and particularly by
Enrique Bustamante Media Culture Society 2004; 26; 803 DOI: 10.1177/0163443704047027 The online version of this article can be found at: http://mcs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/26/6/803
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Cultural industries in the Digital Age: some provisional conclusions
Enrique Bustamante
COMPLUTENSE UNIVERSITY
OF
MADRID, SPAIN
Translated from the Spanish by Philip Schlesinger and Jairo Lugo This study is based on the analysis of the seven main sectors – both in terms of political importance and of social influence – of contemporary culture and communication. It addresses the following: books, disks, cinema, the press, radio, television and the video games industry. The work addresses three main cross-cutting problematics that are considered to be crucial: intellectual property rights; the strategies of transnational multimedia groups; and the development of communication and cultural policies and their evolution in both the analogue and digital worlds (Bustamante, 2002, 2003). The framework that traditionally unified this apparently diverse group of elements was the concept of the ‘cultural industries’,1 which is still useful for analysing the transformations and the most important tendencies of the last decade. It is assumed that the future of our culture cannot escape from being determined by the evolution of the ‘old’ analogue world, and particularly by
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