This paper by Kieran Healy - an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona (US) and a Research Fellow in the Social and Political Theory Program at the Australian National University's Research School of Social Sciences - reviews how digital technology, and the devices and broadband networks associated with it (the Internet, for short), can be expected to affect the ways in which books, music, the visual arts, libraries and archived cultural heritage (cultural goods, for short) are distributed and consumed. Digital Technology and Cultural Goods was published in The Journal of Political Philosophy (Volume 10, Number 4, 2002). To access the paper online as a PDF document, CLICK HERE.

http://www.kieranhealy.org/files/papers/jpp.pdf