The Research Bay 3

The Cybernorms research group and the Lund University Internet Institute (LUii) is currently doing a survey on file-sharing in collaboration with The Pirate Bay, the bitTorrent site. The survey runs from 25 to 27 February.

The survey has been done twice before, and has been the largest of its kind with over 96,000 respondents. The first Research Bay survey was performed in April 2011, and it was followed by the Research Bay “re-loaded” about a year later in 2012. The Cybernorms research group also released the data from the first survey in a searchable database on this site, called the Survey Bay. Forbes reported, along with TechDirt and others.

See also post on cybernormer.se

Scientific articles based on previous Research Bay data

• Larsson, S., Svensson, M., de Kaminski, M., Rönkkö, K., and Alkan Olsson, J. (2012) Law, norms, piracy and online anonymity – Practices of de-identification in the global file sharing community, Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing 6(4): 260-280.
• Larsson, Stefan (2014) Conceptions of Copyright in a Digital Context. A Comparison between French and American File-sharers, Lexis – E-journal in English Lexicology.
• de Kaminski, M., Svensson, M., Larsson, S., Alkan Olsson, J., Rönkkö, K. (2013) Studying Norms and Social Change in Digital Age: Identifying and Understanding a Multidimensional Gap Problem, in M Baier, Social and Legal Norms. Towards a socio-legal understanding of normativity, Ashgate Publishing.
• Andersson Schwarz, J. and Larsson S. (forthcoming, 2014) On the Justifications of Piracy: Differences in conceptualization and argumentation between active uploaders and other file-sharers. In: Arvanitakis J and Fredriksson M (eds.), Piracy: Leakages from Modernity. Los Angeles, CA: Litwin Books.
• Larsson, Wnukowska-Mtonga, Svensson, de Kaminski (forthcoming, 2014) Parallel Norms: File-sharing and Contemporary Copyright Development in Australia, Journal of World Intellectual Property.
• Svensson, M., Larsson, S. and de Kaminski, M. (2013) Professionalization, Gender and Anonymity in the Global File Sharing Community, in Roberto Braga and Giovanni Caruso (eds.) Piracy Effect, online version.
• Svensson, M., Larsson, S. and de Kaminski, M. (2013) Professionalizzazione, gender e anonimato nelle comunità di file sharing globale, in Roberto Braga and Giovanni Caruso (eds.) Piracy Effect, Milano, Italy: Mimesis Editore.