The History of Sharing Video Content in Poland: Analog copies of the 1980s as a Factor of Digital Peer Re-production in the 2000s

• Authors: Toczyski, Piotr , Filiciak, Mirosław

Abstracts

EN

We depict practices of Polish audiences in communist Poland and the transition of these practices after the fall of communism. In Eastern Europe, digital distribution of video content has been built on semi-peripheral culture of VHS tapes copying and sharing. Although the unique Polish 20th century historical trajectory contains the experience of being excluded from Western popular culture, the first decade of 21st century brought unlimited digital access to audiovisual content. Peer re-production, a non-creative mode of participation increased. Our article provides new historical data illustrating this specificity both in terms of historical experience and globalizing technological progress.

Keywords

EN

Poland; file-sharing; peer re-production; video content; TV series; post-network

• Publisher: Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej. Wydawnictwo APS
• Journal: Studies in Global Ethics and Global Education
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 9
• Pages: 60-77

Dates

published

2018-12-22

Contributors

author

Toczyski, Piotr

author

Filiciak, Mirosław

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0012.8148