[Air-l] music and the internet

[Bruce Mason]

At 18:12 19/09/01 +0200, you wrote:
>greetings!
>
>I am about to embark on the project of writing my thesis on the topic of the
>sociotechnical implications of file sharing and the .mp3 format. My focus
>will be the proliferation of the technology and the following debate and
>legal actions by the involved parties. The theoretical framework will be
>centered around Bruno Latour and others' work known as Actor Network Theory.

On a related note, if anyone knows of a "Latour for Dummies" or something 
similar in Actor Network theory I would love to know of it.  I've found 
this to be a frustratingly amorphous body of scholarship and suspect that 
I'm missing some entry point.

Cheers
Bruce
Bruce Mason, bmason at mun.ca
http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~bmason
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