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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Cambria">With apologies for cross-posting:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Cambria"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Cambria">Call for papers – <i>First Monday</i> themed special edition</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Cambria">Napster, 15 years on: Rethinking digital
music distribution</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Cambria">Guest editors: Raphaël Nowak (Griffith University,
Australia) and Andrew Whelan (University of Wollongong, Australia)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">2014 marks the
fifteenth anniversary of the release of the peer-to-peer application Napster.
Developed by a student, Shawn Fanning, with the help of his friend Shawn Parker
and uncle John Fanning, Napster established music downloading as a mass
phenomenon. By 2001, 50 million users had downloaded content with Napster. Many
other applications followed – Gnutella, Kazaa, LimeWire, eMule, Soulseek,
BitTorrent, among others –further developing and entrenching p2p technology.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Online music
distribution has been fiercely contested since Napster. Online availability has
changed the way music is produced, sold, distributed, shared and consumed.
While these changes are often decried or celebrated through well-rehearsed
positions, their implications can also be exaggerated, as attending to
contemporary industry business models and persisting analog formats would
suggest. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Building on multi-
and cross-disciplinary approaches addressing developments in the 15 years since
the advent of Napster, we seek papers that advance contemporary debates
associated with music downloading (authorized and illicit) and its consequences
and ramifications. We welcome 300 word abstracts reflecting on the last 15
years in the realm of online music distribution and consumption. While
attending to this broad aim, proposed articles will also address a more
specific theme. Potential themes may include, but are not limited to: </span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Exchange relations and the circulation of digital
objects</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Politics and ethics of p2p practices</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Hyper-consumption, curatorialism and open access
music archives</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Online music subcultures and (social) networks</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Domestication of p2p and p2p as/in technoculture</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Communications, transfer, storage, and playback
hardware and infrastructure</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Discursive framing: leeches, pirates, free music</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Contemporary music celebrity culture</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Suppression and criminalization of downloading
and ‘copyfight’</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Aesthetic experiences and qualities of digital
music practices and rituals</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">0day, release groups, pre-releases and leaks</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Affordances, affects and materialities of the mp3
format</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">The evolution and ecology of music downloading</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Direct downloads, music blogging, and online
visibility </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Monetization, markets and the business of p2p</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Analog formats: continuity and resurgence</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Pre-histories and futures of digital music
distribution</span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">300 word abstracts
should be submitted to Raphaël
Nowak (</span><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="mailto:raph.nowak@gmail.com"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Cambria">raph.nowak@gmail.com</span></a></span><u><span style="font-family:Cambria">)</span></u><span style="font-family:Cambria"> by <b><u>February 21, 2014</u></b>.
On the basis of these abstracts, invitations to submit papers will be sent out
in early March 2014. Full papers should be submitted by June 20, 2014, and will
undergo the usual <i>First Monday</i>
peer-review process. Invitation to submit a full paper does not therefore
guarantee acceptance into the issue. The themed special edition will be
published November 2014.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Cambria">This Call for Papers can be found
in pdf format at </span><span style="font-family:Cambria"><a href="http://bit.ly/1dnKzFe">http://bit.ly/1dnKzFe</a></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Cambria">. Please forward as appropriate to interested parties.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Cambria"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Cambria">Raphaël Nowak
<<a href="mailto:raph.nowak@gmail.com">raph.nowak@gmail.com</a>></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Cambria">Andrew Whelan
<<a href="mailto:awhelan@uow.edu.au">awhelan@uow.edu.au</a>></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Cambria"> </span></p>
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