Matthew David
Biographic Data
| ID | 3580856 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew David |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | David |
| SIGNATURE | DAVID M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4651-3437 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Inciting Infringement and Innovation: From Napster to Now - the dialectic of law and technology
The original Napster had only a short life, but what it set in motion has lasted and been significant. From 1999 to 2001(2) the Napster platform offered the first widely known and widely adopted music file-sharing download service; combining internet distribution and MP3 file-compression with its own central server acting to enable user uploading and downloading of music. Whilst Napster was shut down for ‘contributory infringement’ on the grounds…
Inciting Infringement and Innovation: From Napster to Now - the dialectic of law and technology
The original Napster had only a short life, but what it set in motion has lasted and been significant.From 1999 to 2001(2), the Napster platform offered the first widely known and widely adopted music filesharing download service, combining internet distribution and MP3 file compression with its own central server acting to enable user uploading and downloading of music.Whilst Napster was shut down for 'contributory infringement' on the grounds t…
Was Hannah Twynnoy Killed by a Tiger in England in 1703? A Historical Sociological Approach
This paper approaches globalization through the lens of folk lore, myth, and John Law's hopeful monsters, focusing on Hannah Twynnoy, a woman allegedly killed by a tiger in Malmesbury (England) in 1703. Hannah's death was taken up three hundred years later as a metaphor for globalization when local factory jobs were relocated to a ‘tiger economy’ (Malaysia). Taken to manifest Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury's ‘state of nature’, Hannah's story also il…
The Social Meaning and Relations of Cloning
Claude Lévi‐Strauss's Myth and Meaning discusses the cultural significance attached to twins in nonliterate societies. Twins are invested with ambivalent feelings, embodying abundance and loss, security and threat, natural and unnatural, good and evil. Twins also challenge the “identity” of being one thing or the other. The spliced‐lipped, incipient twin, hare, as messenger/transgressor between binary opposites, is also the mythical carrier of or…
Sharing Economy
The meaning of a sharing economy is narrowed down in this entry to a discussion of the free sharing of informational goods, rather than the wider domain of direct rental and labor that is often unhelpfully associated with the term. The question of whether free sharing of nonrivalrous informational goods (in the sense of free copying) represents a credible economic model rather than just a parasitic threat to property and market‐based models is th…
Consumption and Intellectual Property
Consumption does not just refer to using something up. It also refers to purchase of goods. However, nonrivalrous informational goods (intangibles) can circulate freely on today's global digital networks, undoing both senses of the term consumption. Intellectual property (IP) protection is designed to maintain scarcity in intangibles, and hence of maintaining scope for price and thereby profit. This entry examines six primary forms of IP: copyrig…
Power and Counter-Power: Knowledge Structure and the Limits of Control
In this article, we explore Susan Strange's multidimensional and non-reductive international political economy (IPE) approach to structural power. Strange's key weakness is the failure to account for her knowledge structure's regulative form relative to her security, production and financial structures. We seek to develop Strange's account through the addition of Manuel Castells' account of digital network structures. Castells' morphogenic struct…
Social Transformations
Discovering Sociology
This second edition of a major textbook uses lively prose and a series of carefully-crafted pedagogical features to both introduce Sociology as a discipline and to help students realize how deeply sociological issues impact on their own lives. Over the book’s twelve chapters, students discover what Sociology is, alongside its historical development and emergent new concerns. They will be led through the theories that underpin the discipline and f…
Sharing: Post-scarcity beyond capitalism
Regarding efficiency, efficacy and incentive, free-sharing online (of recordings, live broadcasts, software and published works) outperforms market and property systems by reducing costs of production and distribution, increasing quality and access and better promoting creativity. Free-sharing online emerged within “global network capitalism” and non-capitalist networks. Free-sharing of purely informational content online challenges capitalism by…
Fabricated world class: Global university league tables, status differentiation and myths of global competition
UK media coverage of global university league tables shows systematic bias towards the Russell Group, although also highlighting tensions within its membership. Coverage positions UK ‘elite’ institutions between US superiority and Asian ascent. Coverage claims that league table results warrant UK university funding reform. However, league table data for all years to 2012 (when major funding reforms were implemented – most radically in England) do…
The Sage Handbook of Intellectual Property
PART I: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN A GLOBAL WORLD Introduction - Matthew David and Debora Halbert Intellectual Property and the Open (Information) Society - Anne Barron The Economic Foundations of IP - Sarah Louisa Phythian-Adams The Idea of International Intellectual Property - Shubha Ghosh Globalization and Intellectual Property - Debora Halbert PART II: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND DEVELOPMENT TRIPS and Development - Daniel Gervais Deja Vu in the I…
Sport and New Media
This chapter presents the small but growing body of research on new media and sport. It outlines Manuel Castells’s ‘network society’ theory, noting tensions between early non-network digital distribution and later network forms. The chapter discusses the ‘first digital revolution’, which saw sports broadcasting via dedicated cable and satellite media give rise to a new global hyper-commercial industry. It also outlines the ‘second digital revolut…
Football's Coming Home: Digital reterritorialization, contradictions in the transnational coverage of sport and the sociology of alternative football broadcasts
This article critically utilizes the work of Manuel Castells to discuss the issue of parallel imported broadcasts (specifically including live‐streams) in football. This is of crucial importance to sport because the English Premier League is premised upon the sale of television rights broadcasts to domestic and overseas markets, and yet cheaper alternative broadcasts endanger the price of such rights. Evidence is drawn from qualitative fieldwork …
The idea of moral panic – ten dimensions of dispute
This paper explores the open and contested concept of moral panic over its 40-year history, exploring the contributions made by the concept’s key originators, as well as contemporary researchers. While most moral panic researchers are critical, humanist, interpretivist, interventionist and qualitative, this paper highlights ten areas of productive dispute within and around the meaning of moral panic theory’s ‘common sense’. Such diversity of inte…
Cloning
Claude Lévi‐Strauss's (1978) Myth and Meaning discusses the cultural significance attached to twins in non‐literate societies. Twins are invested with ambivalent feelings, embodying abundance and loss, security and threat, natural and unnatural, good and evil. Twins also challenge the “identity” of being one thing or the other. The spliced‐lipped, incipient twin, hare, as messenger/transgressor between binary opposites, is also the mythical carri…
Methods of Interpretive Sociology
VOLUME 1 SECTION ONE: THE CLASSICAL STATEMENTS AND AUTHORS The Rise of Hermeneutics - Wilhelm Dilthey and Frederic Jameson Translator's Introduction to Max Essay on Some Categories of Interpretive Sociology - Edith Graber Some Categories of Interpretive Sociology - Max Weber Anticritical Last Word on The Spirit of Capitalism, by Max Weber - Wallace Davis Capitalism in Recent German Literature: Sombart and Weber - Talcott Parsons Capitalism in Rec…
Case Study Research
VOLUME ONE PART ONE: CLASSIC ARTICLES IN THE FOUNDING OF THE CASE STUDY TRADITION Case Study Method - Clifford R Shaw Statistics and Case Studies as Methods of Sociological Research - Ernest W Burgess Case Study of Small Institutions as a Method of Research - Charles H Cooley Round Table on the Case Study Method of Sociological Research - Stuart A Queen The Case Study Method in Social Research - Katharine Jocher The Limitations of Domestic Discor…
Sociological Knowledge and Scientific Knowledge
Some significant insights in relation to science and its claims emerged in early sociology. However, sociologies of knowledge and science remained separate until the late 1960s. Questioning scientific knowledge raised questions about career interests, language, interaction, class and gender in shaping scientific claims. Offering insights, this new sociology tended towards ‘epistemological polarisation’. New waves further distanced themselves from…
You Think Bart Simpson is Real. I Know He's Only an Actor
Evidence of genetic links to human behaviour are readily used by some to invalidate a 'blank slate' conception of human nature, while evidence of plasticity is readily used by others to invalidate genetic essentialism. Such knocking down of 'straw men' helps enforce the boundaries of insular fields even as it prevents more interesting investigation of what it means to be human. This article outlines the perspective of 'reflexive epistemological d…
Building Bridges in Social Research: Narrative, Logic and Simulation
The three books examined in this review address the question of causal explanation in the non-experimental social sciences. All three books focus attention on the need to address ‘causation’ in terms of complex processes rather than through prediction. Debates over the meaning of ‘mechanism’ (Stinchcombe), ‘narrative’ (Elliott) and ‘emergence’ (Gilbert and Troitzsch) cross over each other, and are in part alternative ways of describing the same t…
Romanticism, Creativity and Copyright: Visions and Nightmares
Cloning/Stem Cells and the Meaning of Life
This article explores recent controversies over human cloning, stem cell research and the potential applications of both. Much of the fear of human reproductive cloning has been escalated by media calling on scare stories from Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil, which both stimulates public fear and clouds debate. Is it possible to take a detached view about whether the risks are worth taking? While technologies …
The A-Z of Social Research
The sociological critique of evolutionary psychology: Beyond mass modularity
This paper addresses evolutionary psychology's (EP's) mass modularity account of human intelligence. First, EP is located within 'naturalization of society' discourses. Secondly, the nature and weakness of mass modularity theory is examined. In the third part of the paper, the genetic reductionism of EP is challenged with reference to developmental systems theory (DST). However, in the fourth part, the danger of importing one biological theory to…
The idea of moral panic – ten dimensions of dispute
This paper explores the open and contested concept of moral panic over its 40-year history, exploring the contributions made by the concept’s key originators, as well as contemporary researchers. While most moral panic researchers are critical, humanist, interpretivist, interventionist and qualitative, this paper highlights ten areas of productive dispute within and around the meaning of moral panic theory’s ‘common sense’. Such diversity of inte…
Football's Coming Home: Digital reterritorialization, contradictions in the transnational coverage of sport and the sociology of alternative football broadcasts
This article critically utilizes the work of Manuel Castells to discuss the issue of parallel imported broadcasts (specifically including live‐streams) in football. This is of crucial importance to sport because the English Premier League is premised upon the sale of television rights broadcasts to domestic and overseas markets, and yet cheaper alternative broadcasts endanger the price of such rights. Evidence is drawn from qualitative fieldwork …
Discovering Sociology
This second edition of a major textbook uses lively prose and a series of carefully-crafted pedagogical features to both introduce Sociology as a discipline and to help students realize how deeply sociological issues impact on their own lives. Over the book’s twelve chapters, students discover what Sociology is, alongside its historical development and emergent new concerns. They will be led through the theories that underpin the discipline and f…
Problems of participation: The limits of action research
Alvin Gouldner (1979) suggests knowledge is both culture and capital. Knowledge enables meaningful action. Capital is culture privatized. Culture is capital generalized. This raises the question of ownership in social research. Detachment in social research is praised as a virtue but also viewed as a source of difficulties epistemologically and ethically. Participatory action research offers a critique of detachment and advocates its opposite, 'c…
Methods of Interpretive Sociology
VOLUME 1 SECTION ONE: THE CLASSICAL STATEMENTS AND AUTHORS The Rise of Hermeneutics - Wilhelm Dilthey and Frederic Jameson Translator's Introduction to Max Essay on Some Categories of Interpretive Sociology - Edith Graber Some Categories of Interpretive Sociology - Max Weber Anticritical Last Word on The Spirit of Capitalism, by Max Weber - Wallace Davis Capitalism in Recent German Literature: Sombart and Weber - Talcott Parsons Capitalism in Rec…
Case Study Research
VOLUME ONE PART ONE: CLASSIC ARTICLES IN THE FOUNDING OF THE CASE STUDY TRADITION Case Study Method - Clifford R Shaw Statistics and Case Studies as Methods of Sociological Research - Ernest W Burgess Case Study of Small Institutions as a Method of Research - Charles H Cooley Round Table on the Case Study Method of Sociological Research - Stuart A Queen The Case Study Method in Social Research - Katharine Jocher The Limitations of Domestic Discor…
Sharing: Post-scarcity beyond capitalism
Regarding efficiency, efficacy and incentive, free-sharing online (of recordings, live broadcasts, software and published works) outperforms market and property systems by reducing costs of production and distribution, increasing quality and access and better promoting creativity. Free-sharing online emerged within “global network capitalism” and non-capitalist networks. Free-sharing of purely informational content online challenges capitalism by…
Fabricated world class: Global university league tables, status differentiation and myths of global competition
UK media coverage of global university league tables shows systematic bias towards the Russell Group, although also highlighting tensions within its membership. Coverage positions UK ‘elite’ institutions between US superiority and Asian ascent. Coverage claims that league table results warrant UK university funding reform. However, league table data for all years to 2012 (when major funding reforms were implemented – most radically in England) do…
Cloning/Stem Cells and the Meaning of Life
This article explores recent controversies over human cloning, stem cell research and the potential applications of both. Much of the fear of human reproductive cloning has been escalated by media calling on scare stories from Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil, which both stimulates public fear and clouds debate. Is it possible to take a detached view about whether the risks are worth taking? While technologies …
What Are They Doing? Dilemmas in Analyzing Bibliographic Searching: Cultural and Technical Networks in Academic Life
This paper presents provisional results from research into the uses and usefulness of electronic bibliographic databases in academic contexts. The research has been carried out as part of a British Library funded research project using ethnographic, focus group and conversation analytic techniques. Here we address the question: What can different varieties of ethnography and discourse analysis contribute to our understanding of organizational and…
What Are They Doing? Dilemmas in Analyzing Bibliographic Searching: Cultural and Technical Networks in Academic Life
This paper presents provisional results from research into the uses and usefulness of electronic bibliographic databases in academic contexts. The research has been carried out as part of a British Library funded research project using ethnographic, focus group and conversation analytic techniques. Here we address the question: What can different varieties of ethnography and discourse analysis contribute to our understanding of organizational and…
Books Reviewed
The sociological critique of evolutionary psychology: Beyond mass modularity
This paper addresses evolutionary psychology's (EP's) mass modularity account of human intelligence. First, EP is located within 'naturalization of society' discourses. Secondly, the nature and weakness of mass modularity theory is examined. In the third part of the paper, the genetic reductionism of EP is challenged with reference to developmental systems theory (DST). However, in the fourth part, the danger of importing one biological theory to…
Critical Theory of Society or Self-Critical Society
This paper presents a critical comparative reading of Ulrich Beck and Herbert Marcuse. Beck's thesis on ‘selfcritical society’ and the concept of ‘sub-politics’ are evaluated within the framework of Marcusian critical theory. We argue for the continued relevance of Marcuse for the project of emancipatory politics. We recognise that a focus upon the imminent and spontaneous possibilities for radical social change within the ‘sub-political’ is a us…
Critical Theory of Society or Self-Critical Society
This paper presents a critical comparative reading of Ulrich Beck and Herbert Marcuse. Beck's thesis on ‘self-critical society’ and the concept of ‘sub-politics’ are evaluated within the framework of Marcusian critical theory. We argue for the continued relevance of Marcuse for the project of emancipatory politics. We recognise that a focus upon the imminent and spontaneous possibilities for radical social change within the ‘sub-political’ is a u…
Problems of participation: The limits of action research
Alvin Gouldner (1979) suggests knowledge is both culture and capital. Knowledge enables meaningful action. Capital is culture privatized. Culture is capital generalized. This raises the question of ownership in social research. Detachment in social research is praised as a virtue but also viewed as a source of difficulties epistemologically and ethically. Participatory action research offers a critique of detachment and advocates its opposite, 'c…
The A-Z of Social Research
Cloning/Stem Cells and the Meaning of Life
This article explores recent controversies over human cloning, stem cell research and the potential applications of both. Much of the fear of human reproductive cloning has been escalated by media calling on scare stories from Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil, which both stimulates public fear and clouds debate. Is it possible to take a detached view about whether the risks are worth taking? While technologies …
Building Bridges in Social Research: Narrative, Logic and Simulation
The three books examined in this review address the question of causal explanation in the non-experimental social sciences. All three books focus attention on the need to address ‘causation’ in terms of complex processes rather than through prediction. Debates over the meaning of ‘mechanism’ (Stinchcombe), ‘narrative’ (Elliott) and ‘emergence’ (Gilbert and Troitzsch) cross over each other, and are in part alternative ways of describing the same t…
Romanticism, Creativity and Copyright: Visions and Nightmares
Sociological Knowledge and Scientific Knowledge
Some significant insights in relation to science and its claims emerged in early sociology. However, sociologies of knowledge and science remained separate until the late 1960s. Questioning scientific knowledge raised questions about career interests, language, interaction, class and gender in shaping scientific claims. Offering insights, this new sociology tended towards ‘epistemological polarisation’. New waves further distanced themselves from…
You Think Bart Simpson is Real. I Know He's Only an Actor
Evidence of genetic links to human behaviour are readily used by some to invalidate a 'blank slate' conception of human nature, while evidence of plasticity is readily used by others to invalidate genetic essentialism. Such knocking down of 'straw men' helps enforce the boundaries of insular fields even as it prevents more interesting investigation of what it means to be human. This article outlines the perspective of 'reflexive epistemological d…
Case Study Research
VOLUME ONE PART ONE: CLASSIC ARTICLES IN THE FOUNDING OF THE CASE STUDY TRADITION Case Study Method - Clifford R Shaw Statistics and Case Studies as Methods of Sociological Research - Ernest W Burgess Case Study of Small Institutions as a Method of Research - Charles H Cooley Round Table on the Case Study Method of Sociological Research - Stuart A Queen The Case Study Method in Social Research - Katharine Jocher The Limitations of Domestic Discor…
Cloning
Claude Lévi‐Strauss's (1978) Myth and Meaning discusses the cultural significance attached to twins in non‐literate societies. Twins are invested with ambivalent feelings, embodying abundance and loss, security and threat, natural and unnatural, good and evil. Twins also challenge the “identity” of being one thing or the other. The spliced‐lipped, incipient twin, hare, as messenger/transgressor between binary opposites, is also the mythical carri…
Methods of Interpretive Sociology
VOLUME 1 SECTION ONE: THE CLASSICAL STATEMENTS AND AUTHORS The Rise of Hermeneutics - Wilhelm Dilthey and Frederic Jameson Translator's Introduction to Max Essay on Some Categories of Interpretive Sociology - Edith Graber Some Categories of Interpretive Sociology - Max Weber Anticritical Last Word on The Spirit of Capitalism, by Max Weber - Wallace Davis Capitalism in Recent German Literature: Sombart and Weber - Talcott Parsons Capitalism in Rec…
The idea of moral panic – ten dimensions of dispute
This paper explores the open and contested concept of moral panic over its 40-year history, exploring the contributions made by the concept’s key originators, as well as contemporary researchers. While most moral panic researchers are critical, humanist, interpretivist, interventionist and qualitative, this paper highlights ten areas of productive dispute within and around the meaning of moral panic theory’s ‘common sense’. Such diversity of inte…
Football's Coming Home: Digital reterritorialization, contradictions in the transnational coverage of sport and the sociology of alternative football broadcasts
This article critically utilizes the work of Manuel Castells to discuss the issue of parallel imported broadcasts (specifically including live‐streams) in football. This is of crucial importance to sport because the English Premier League is premised upon the sale of television rights broadcasts to domestic and overseas markets, and yet cheaper alternative broadcasts endanger the price of such rights. Evidence is drawn from qualitative fieldwork …
The Sage Handbook of Intellectual Property
PART I: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN A GLOBAL WORLD Introduction - Matthew David and Debora Halbert Intellectual Property and the Open (Information) Society - Anne Barron The Economic Foundations of IP - Sarah Louisa Phythian-Adams The Idea of International Intellectual Property - Shubha Ghosh Globalization and Intellectual Property - Debora Halbert PART II: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND DEVELOPMENT TRIPS and Development - Daniel Gervais Deja Vu in the I…
Sport and New Media
This chapter presents the small but growing body of research on new media and sport. It outlines Manuel Castells’s ‘network society’ theory, noting tensions between early non-network digital distribution and later network forms. The chapter discusses the ‘first digital revolution’, which saw sports broadcasting via dedicated cable and satellite media give rise to a new global hyper-commercial industry. It also outlines the ‘second digital revolut…
Fabricated world class: Global university league tables, status differentiation and myths of global competition
UK media coverage of global university league tables shows systematic bias towards the Russell Group, although also highlighting tensions within its membership. Coverage positions UK ‘elite’ institutions between US superiority and Asian ascent. Coverage claims that league table results warrant UK university funding reform. However, league table data for all years to 2012 (when major funding reforms were implemented – most radically in England) do…
Sharing: Post-scarcity beyond capitalism
Regarding efficiency, efficacy and incentive, free-sharing online (of recordings, live broadcasts, software and published works) outperforms market and property systems by reducing costs of production and distribution, increasing quality and access and better promoting creativity. Free-sharing online emerged within “global network capitalism” and non-capitalist networks. Free-sharing of purely informational content online challenges capitalism by…
Social Transformations
Discovering Sociology
This second edition of a major textbook uses lively prose and a series of carefully-crafted pedagogical features to both introduce Sociology as a discipline and to help students realize how deeply sociological issues impact on their own lives. Over the book’s twelve chapters, students discover what Sociology is, alongside its historical development and emergent new concerns. They will be led through the theories that underpin the discipline and f…
Sharing Economy
The meaning of a sharing economy is narrowed down in this entry to a discussion of the free sharing of informational goods, rather than the wider domain of direct rental and labor that is often unhelpfully associated with the term. The question of whether free sharing of nonrivalrous informational goods (in the sense of free copying) represents a credible economic model rather than just a parasitic threat to property and market‐based models is th…
Consumption and Intellectual Property
Consumption does not just refer to using something up. It also refers to purchase of goods. However, nonrivalrous informational goods (intangibles) can circulate freely on today's global digital networks, undoing both senses of the term consumption. Intellectual property (IP) protection is designed to maintain scarcity in intangibles, and hence of maintaining scope for price and thereby profit. This entry examines six primary forms of IP: copyrig…
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