Michael Strangelove

Watching Youtube

Extraordinary Videos by Ordinary People

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Watching YouTube" raises questions about the future of cultural memory, identity, politics, warfare, and family life when everyday representational practices are altered by four billion cameras in the hands of ordinary people.

Produktdetails

• Digital Futures
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9781442641457
• ISBN-10: 1442641452
• Artikelnr.: 28889428

Autorenporträt

Michael Strangelove has been called a "guru of Internet advertising" ( Wired) and "the man who literally wrote the book on commercialization of the net" (Canadian Business). He is a lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Ottawa.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................1
1. Home Movies in a Global
Village......................................................32
2. The Home and Family on
YouTube..................................................63
3. Video Diaries: The Real You in
YouTube.........................................101
4. Women of the
'Tube........................................................................134
5. The YouTube
Community................................................................166
6. The YouTube Wars: Elections, Religion, and Armed Conflict............223
7. The Post-television
Audience............................................................259
Conclusion...........................................................................................299
Endnotes..............................................................................................320
Bibliography.........................................................................................397