When materiality 'bites back': Digital music consumption practices in the age of dematerialization

Journal of Consumer Culture

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 15-36

  Magaudda, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

'Circuit of practice'; Cultural consumption; Dematerialization; Digital music; Theory of practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960266227     PISSN: 14695405     EISSN: 17412900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1469540510390499     Document Type: Article

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