YouTube : Online Video and Participatory Culture
ISBN: 9780745644790 | 0745644791
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Polity
Pub. Date: 5/12/2009
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YouTube is one of the most well-known and widely discussed sites of participatory media in the contemporary online environment, and it is the first genuinely mass-popular platform for user-created video. In this timely and comprehensive introduction to how YouTube is being used and why it matters, Burgess and Green discuss the ways that it relates to wider transformations in culture, society and the economy. The book critically examines the public debates surrounding the site, demonstrating how it is central to struggles for authority and contr... MORE
| Acknowledgements | |
| Preface | |
| How YouTube Matters | |
| YouTube and the Mainstream Media | |
| YouTube's Popular Culture | |
| YouTube's Social Network | |
| YouTube's Cultural Politics | |
| YouTube's Uncertain Futures | |
| What Happened Before YouTube | |
| Uses of YouTube: Digital Literacy and the Growth of Knowledge | |
| ... MORE |
Jean Burgess
Joshua Green
With contributions by Henry Jenkins and John Hartley.
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