Originally published in 2009 when YouTube was only four years old, this book was the first to systematically investigate its cultural impacts and politics, highlighting the productive tensions between its amateur community rhetoric and its ...
Author: Jean Burgess
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781509533596
Category: Social Science
Page: 180
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Since launching as a website for everyday video-sharing in 2005, YouTube has become one of the world’s most powerful digital media platforms. Originally published in 2009 when YouTube was only four years old, this book was the first to systematically investigate its cultural impacts and politics, highlighting the productive tensions between its amateur community rhetoric and its commercial media logics. Since then, YouTube has grown as a platform and matured as a company. Its business model is built on coordinating the interests of and extracting value from its content creators, audiences, advertisers and media partners, in a commercial setting where YouTube now competes with other powerful social media and streaming television platforms. Meanwhile, YouTube’s diverse communities of content creators, who developed the platform’s most distinctive cultural forms and genres, have strong ideas and interests of their own. While preserving the original edition’s forensic analysis of YouTube’s early popular culture and uses, this fully revised and updated edition weaves fresh examples, updated theoretical perspectives and comparative historical insights throughout each of its six chapters. Burgess and Green show how, over its more than a decade of existence, YouTube’s dual logics of commerciality and community have persisted, generating new genres of popular culture, new professional identities and business models for the media industries, and giving rise to ongoing platform governance challenges. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in the contemporary and future implications of digital media platforms and will be particularly valuable for students and scholars in media, communication and cultural studies.YouTube: Online video and participatory culture. Cambridge: Polity Press. Cotter, K. (2019). Playing the visibility game: How digital influencers and algorithms negotiate influence on Instagram. New Media & Society, 21(4), 895–913.
Author: Nicholas Carah
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9781529757644
Category: Social Science
Page: 456
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How do media platforms organise social life? How do media empower or disempower our identities? How do we understand the impact of algorithms? How are media audiences produced and managed? Media & Society introduces the role of the media in social, cultural, political and economic life, unpacking the increasing entanglement of digital media technology with our everyday lives. It explores the relationship between meaning and power in an age of participatory culture, social media and digital platforms. An age where we both create and consume content, and where we both give and gain attention – translating our social lives into huge flows of data. Associate Professor Nicholas Carah shows how a critical approach to power helps us not only to understand the role media play in shaping the social, but also how we can become critically informed media citizens ourselves, able to participate and be heard in meaningful ways. Media & Society expertly introduces all the key concepts and ideas you need to know, and then puts theory into practice by tying them to contemporary case studies. From using Ghostery to track how your personal data is being collected, to exploring misinformation on social media via Youtube, to the reality of internships and freelancing in today’s digital media industry. It is essential reading for students of media, communication and cultural studies.In Television as Digital Media, edited by James Bennett and Niki Strange, 1–30. ... Media, Culture & Society 22 (5): 531–56. doi:10.1177/016344300022005001. boyd, danah. 2008. ... YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture. Digital ...
Author: Karin van Es
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781509502653
Category: Social Science
Page: 180
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Liveness is a persistent and much-debated concept in media studies. Until recently, it was associated primarily with broadcast media, and television in particular. However, the emergence of social media has brought new forms of liveness into effect. These forms challenge common assumptions about and perspectives on liveness, provoking a revisiting of the concept. In this book, Karin van Es develops a comprehensive understanding of liveness today, and clarifies the stakes surrounding the category of the live. She argues that liveness is the product of a dynamic interaction between media institutions, technologies and users. In doing so, she challenges earlier conceptions of the notion, which tended to focus on either one of these contributors to its construction. By analyzing the live in four different cases – a live streaming platform, an online music collaboration website, an example of social TV, and a social networking site – van Es explores the operation of the category and pinpoints the conditions under which it comes into being. The analysis is the starting point for a broader reflection on the relation between broadcast and social media.YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture—Digital Media and Society. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2009. Burkeman, Oliver. “Three Months Ago Bob Geldof Declared Live 8 Had Achieved Its Aim. But What Really Happened Next?
Author: Eduardo Navas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781134748747
Category: Social Science
Page: 532
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The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies comprises contemporary texts by key authors and artists who are active in the emerging field of remix studies. As an organic international movement, remix culture originated in the popular music culture of the 1970s, and has since grown into a rich cultural activity encompassing numerous forms of media. The act of recombining pre-existing material brings up pressing questions of authenticity, reception, authorship, copyright, and the techno-politics of media activism. This book approaches remix studies from various angles, including sections on history, aesthetics, ethics, politics, and practice, and presents theoretical chapters alongside case studies of remix projects. The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies is a valuable resource for both researchers and remix practitioners, as well as a teaching tool for instructors using remix practices in the classroom.YouTube: Online videos and participatory culture (2nd Edition). Cambridge, MA: Polity. Caldwell, J. (2009). Cultures of production: Studying industry's deep texts, reflexive rituals, and managed selfdisclosures.
Author: Lelia Green
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781351004091
Category: Social Science
Page: 604
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This companion presents the newest research in this important area, showcasing the huge diversity in children’s relationships with digital media around the globe, and exploring the benefits, challenges, history, and emerging developments in the field. Children are finding novel ways to express their passions and priorities through innovative uses of digital communication tools. This collection investigates and critiques the dynamism of children's lives online with contributions fielding both global and hyper-local issues, and bridging the wide spectrum of connected media created for and by children. From education to children's rights to cyberbullying and youth in challenging circumstances, the interdisciplinary approach ensures a careful, nuanced, multi-dimensional exploration of children’s relationships with digital media. Featuring a highly international range of case studies, perspectives, and socio-cultural contexts, The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children is the perfect reference tool for students and researchers of media and communication, family and technology studies, psychology, education, anthropology, and sociology, as well as interested teachers, policy makers, and parents.Networking, or what the social means in social media, Social Media + Society, ... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. ... YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture, 2nd edn.
Author: Zoetanya Sujon
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9781526481986
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 336
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We are all aware of social media and how it is seamlessly integrated into our private and public lives as everyday users, but this book aims to provide a deeper understanding of social media by asking questions about its place in our society, our culture and our economy.In Rhetorics of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education, edited by Tammie M. Kennedy, Joyce Irene Middleton, ... YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture, Digital Media and Society.
Author: Akane Kanai
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783319915159
Category: Social Science
Page: 195
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This book explores the practices and the politics of relatable femininity in intimate digital social spaces. Examining a GIF-based digital culture on Tumblr, the author considers how young women produce relatability through humorous, generalisable representations of embarrassment, frustration, and resilience in everyday situations. Relatability is examined as an affective relation that offers the feeling of sameness and female friendship amongst young women. However, this relation is based on young women’s ability to competently negotiate the ‘feeling rules’ that govern youthful femininity. Such classed and racialised feeling rules require young women to perfect the performance of normalcy: they must mix self-deprecation with positivity; they must be relatably flawed but not actual ‘failures’. Situated in debates about postfeminism, self-representation and digital identity, this book connects understandings of digital visual culture to gender, race, and class, and neoliberal imperatives to perform the ‘right feelings’. Gender and Relatability in Digital Culture will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including gender studies, cultural studies, sociology, and media studies.She is author or editor of more than 100 publications on digital and social media, including YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture (Polity Press), Twitter and Society (Peter Lang), Studying Mobile Media (Routledge) and The ...
Author: Jean Burgess
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9781473995796
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 662
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The world is in the midst of a social media paradigm. Once viewed as trivial and peripheral, social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and WeChat have become an important part of the information and communication infrastructure of society. They are bound up with business and politics as well as everyday life, work, and personal relationships. This international Handbook addresses the most significant research themes, methodological approaches and debates in the study of social media. It contains substantial chapters written especially for this book by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary perspectives, covering everything from computational social science to sexual self-expression. Part 1: Histories And Pre-Histories Part 2: Approaches And Methods Part 3: Platforms, Technologies And Business Models Part 4: Cultures And Practices Part 5: Social And Economic DomainsIn D. Buckingham (Ed.), Youth, identity, and digital media (pp. 119–142). ... YouTube: Online video and participatory culture. ... In R. C. Allen & A. Hill (Eds.), The television studies reader (pp. 293–310). New York, NY: Psychology ...
Author: Jeremy Schulz
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 9781839090790
Category: Social Science
Page: 324
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Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), Millennials and Media brings together case studies from across the globe to provide a timely examination of Generation Y's media practices.