Provides an overview of digital sound careers, including DJs, music producers, and recording engineers, and describes the knowledge, skills, and experience needed to pursue a career in these fields.

Machinima, meaning "machine cinema," is the technology of using computers to create cinematic features. This book teaches readers, who may be hobbyists in the art, how to use their talents to produce lifelong careers from what they love.

Introduces readers to fan fiction writing, the creation of original stories based on characters and settings from popular fiction, television programs, films, or video games, and suggests ways that this creative activity might lead to a career in writing.

Introduces readers to skinning and modding, the practices of modifying the appearance or function of existing software, and suggests ways that these creative activities might lead to a career in web design or game programming.

Provides an overview of alternate reality gaming, and describes the knowledge, skills, education, and experience needed to pursue a career in this field.

Social networks are made up of people registering their identity online, usually in a personal profile like those found on MySpace, Facebook, or Friendster. This timely book traces the history of social networks on the Internet, and explains how they have become a great way to find other people, connect with them, and exchange ideas and share thoughts. The Internet has become a launching pad for careers in new industries and readers explore ways to build on their existing digital skills while thinking about how they can be applied to future careers. It includes useful information for promoting hobbies, skills, or products.

No detailed description available for "Remix Theory: The Aesthetics of Sampling".

This work digs deep into sampling practices across audio-visual media, from found footage filmmaking to Internet 'memes' that repurpose music videos, trailers and news broadcasts. The book extends the conceptual boundaries of sampling by emphasizing its inter-medial dimensions, exploring its politics, and examining its historical and global scope.

Draws on interviews with more than 100 musicians, managers, lawyers, journalists, and scholars to critique the music industrys approach to digital sampling.

Why should a property interest exist in an intangible item? In recent years, arguments over intellectual property have often divided proponents—who emphasize the importance of providing incentives for producers of creative works— from skeptics who emphasize the need for free and open access to knowledge. In a wide-ranging and ambitious analysis, Robert P. Merges establishes a sophisticated rationale for the most vital form of modern property: IP rights. His insightful new book answers the many critics who contend that these rights are inefficient, unfair, and theoretically incoherent. But Merges’ vigorous defense of IP is also a call for appropriate legal constraints and boundaries: IP rights are real, but they come with real limits. Drawing on Kant, Locke, and Rawls as well as contemporary scholars, Merges crafts an original theory to explain why IP rights make sense as a reward for effort and as a way to encourage individuals to strive. He also provides a novel explanation of why awarding IP rights to creative people is fair for everyone else in society, by contributing to a just distribution of resources. Merges argues convincingly that IP rights are based on a solid ethical foundation, and—when subject to fair limits—these rights are an indispensable part of a well-functioning society.