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  • Insights from the Underground: Using ANT to understand practices and motivations for file sharing in online communities

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    Beekhuyzen, Jenine
    von Hellens, Liisa
    Nielsen, Sue
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    Nielsen, Sue
    von Hellens, Liisa A.
    Beekhuyzen, Jenine
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    2012
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    Underground music file sharing communities are online social spaces that facilitate the sharing of mostly unauthorised digital content. This paper proposes underground file sharing communities as subcultures, and explores the Roswell community from theoretical perspectives of group formation and translation from Actor-network theory (ANT) to gain a better understanding of the motivations for file sharing. Through observations and supporting interviews, a detailed discussion of underground file sharing communities is presented. The discussion reveals interesting insights about the 'black box' of file sharing, and the ideologies ...
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    Underground music file sharing communities are online social spaces that facilitate the sharing of mostly unauthorised digital content. This paper proposes underground file sharing communities as subcultures, and explores the Roswell community from theoretical perspectives of group formation and translation from Actor-network theory (ANT) to gain a better understanding of the motivations for file sharing. Through observations and supporting interviews, a detailed discussion of underground file sharing communities is presented. The discussion reveals interesting insights about the 'black box' of file sharing, and the ideologies of those involved. Scarcity and quality are strong motivators for engaging in underground file sharing communities, with access to high quality music files and scarce music files being a reward for actively participating. The quality of content is maintained through strict rules for converting and uploading new music. Because underground communities are quite sophisticated, it is argued that it is possible to learn from them and use this knowledge in the development of future online music systems and communities.
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    Conference Title
    20th European Conference for Information Systems (ECIS) Proceedings
    Publisher URI
    https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2012/49/
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    © 2012 Association for Information Systems. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the conference's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Information Systems Theory
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/52365
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