Music, value, and networks in the digital world (2015)
Report

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In music as in life, nothing is more important than people. Professional music-makers need audiences, and to reach those audiences, they need the support of many other people, from promoters and agents to fans who will rave about them to... Read More about Music, value, and networks in the digital world.

Networks of value in electronic music: SoundCloud, London, and the importance of place (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. While recent debate has often focused on a reified “cultural value” (whether opposed to or aligned with monetary value), this article treats “value” as a verb and investigates the acts of valuing in which people engage. Thr... Read More about Networks of value in electronic music: SoundCloud, London, and the importance of place.

Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss and the troubled symbolic production of a Man Booker prizewinner (2014)
Book Chapter

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Kiran Desai’s second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, was published by Penguin subsidiaries in India and North America in January 2006, and seven months later in the UK by Hamish Hamilton, a Penguin imprint. That sam... Read More about Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss and the troubled symbolic production of a Man Booker prizewinner.

Bright bricks, dark play: On the impossibility of studying LEGO (2014)
Book Chapter

It is generally recognized that the pleasures of LEGO do not end once the instructions in a particular set have been followed and the model depicted on the box is accurately realized. Generations of children have —just as the manufacturers intended—... Read More about Bright bricks, dark play: On the impossibility of studying LEGO.