The rhetorics and myths of anti-piracy campaigns: Criminalization, moral pedagogy and capitalist property relations in the classroom

New Media and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 605-623

  Yar, Majid ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capitalism; Copyright; Intellectual property; Internet; Myth; Piracy; Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 49049098278     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444807087911     Document Type: Review

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