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On the Symbolic Production of Digital Markets for Cultural Goods

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  • Esteve Sanz

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This paper proposes and mobilizes a cultural economic framework to study the dynamic formation of digital markets for cultural goods. Adapting Hayek's theory of price to recent developments in the field of cultural sociology, it proposes the idea that an effective price system condenses information dispersed in society, and then enters into a performative process of symbolic communication that is perceived as 'authentic' by the consumers. After analyzing 'artificial' and 'authentic' current strategies aimed at producing digital markets for cultural goods, which are especially sensitive to the symbolic dimension of price, the article suggests the hypothesis that the digital market has been constructed as a zero- or quasi-zero-price economic space, and that it is the offline and material market of cultural products the one that collects the higher revenues derived from the 'authentic' generation of value taking place in the digital marketplace.

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  • Esteve Sanz, 2014. "On the Symbolic Production of Digital Markets for Cultural Goods," Journal of Cultural Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 7(2), pages 131-144, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jculte:v:7:y:2014:i:2:p:131-144
    DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.851028
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