The Problem Of Global Networks - 1373 Words

The development of global networks is happening very rapidly. The number of Internet users in the world today is about 300 million people, and their number continues to grow. A new user registers to the Internet every two or three seconds. The number of web pages grows every day, and today there is more than a billion. Internet opens up a great opportunities for the distribution of information. You can find any interesting information online at any time, and then it can be easily copied to your hard drive. To truck the further use the copied material is very difficult. Subsequently, the same material can appear on another site – without specifying a name of an author, it can be in a distorted form, or both. And here arises a lot of†¦show more content†¦Bethany Klein is a Senior Lecturer at University of Leeds, at the Institute of Communications Studies. Also she is an author of As heard on TV: Popular Music in Advertising (Ashgate, 2009) and published different articl es on media, commercialism, popular music culture and social issues in entertainment television. David Lee is also a Lecturer at the University of Leeds, in communications department. He is also an author of publications on creative labour and cultural policy in such journals such as Media, Culture and Society, International Journal of Cultural Policy and Television and New Media. Giles Moss is a Lecturer in Media Policy at the University of Leeds, Communications department. His research mostly focuses on politics and media policy, especially in relation to digital media and the Internet. He has published articled in journals such as Political Studies and The Journal of Information Technology Politics. Fiona Philip is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Leeds, for the ESRC-funded project Communicating Copyright: An Exploration of Copyright Discourses in the Digital Age. In this chapter, authors demonstrate a study, with the use of which they seek to gain a better understanding of internet user’s behaviours and attitudes towards piracy and copyrighted material. Authors examined 12 focus groups with 3 to 10 participants in each group. All participants were of different ages and different