<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:13px">With apologies for cross-posting:</span><br><div><span style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:Times">Call for papers – <i>First Monday</i> themed special edition</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:Times">Napster, 15 years on: Rethinking digital
music distribution</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times">Guest editors: Rapha</span></b><b><span style="font-family:Times">ë</span></b><b><span style="font-family:Times">l Nowak (Griffith University, Australia) and Andrew
Whelan (University of Wollongong, Australia)</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-family:Times">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 </span><span style="font-family:Times">followed – Gnutella, Kazaa, LimeWire, eMule, Soulseek,
BitTorrent, among others –further developing and entrenching p2p technology</span><span style="font-family:Times">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-family:Times">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" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-family:Times">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>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-family:Times">Exchange
relations and the circulation of digital objects</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-family:Times">Politics and
ethics of p2p practices</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-family:Times">Hyper-consumption,
curatorialism and open access music archives</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-family:Times">Online music
subcultures and (social) networks</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-family:Times">Domestication of
p2p and p2p as/in technoculture</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-family:Times">Communications,
transfer, storage, and playback hardware and infrastructure</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-family:Times">Discursive
framing: leeches, pirates, free music</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-family:Times">Contemporary
music celebrity culture</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-family:Times">Suppression and
criminalization of downloading and ‘copyfight’</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-family:Times">Aesthetic experiences
and qualities of digital music practices and rituals</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-family:Times">0day, release
groups, pre-releases and leaks</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-family:Times">Affordances, affects
and materialities of the mp3 format</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-family:Times">The evolution and
ecology of music downloading</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-family:Times">Direct downloads,
music blogging, and online visibility </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-family:Times">Monetization,
markets and the business of p2p</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-family:Times">Analog formats:
continuity and resurgence</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-family:Times">Pre-histories
and futures of digital music distribution</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-family:Times">300
word abstracts should be submitted to Raphaël Nowak (</span><a href="mailto:raph.nowak@gmail.com"><span style="font-family:Times">raph.nowak@gmail.com</span></a><span class=""><span style="font-family:Times">)</span></span><span style="font-family:Times"> 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" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Times">This Call for Papers can be
found in pdf format at <a href="http://bit.ly/Nxp5k8">http://bit.ly/Nxp5k8</a>.
Please forward as appropriate to interested parties.</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Times"> </span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Times">Raphaël Nowak <<a href="mailto:raph.nowak@gmail.com">raph.nowak@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Times">Andrew Whelan <<a href="mailto:awhelan@uow.edu.au">awhelan@uow.edu.au</a>></span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
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