Spotification of Popular Culture in the Field of Popular Communication

Patrick Burkart is Editor in Chief of Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture (with Christian Christiansen). He is Professor of Communication at Texas A&M University, and author of Why Hackers Win: Power and Disruption in the Network Society (University of California Press, 2019, with Tom McCourt), Pirate Politics: The New Information Policy Contests (MIT Press, 2014), Music and Cyberliberties (Wesleyan University Press, 2010), and Digital Music Wars: Ownership and Control of the Celestial Jukebox (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006, with Tom McCourt).

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