Bastard culture! : how user participation transforms cultural production / Mirko Tobias Schäfer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schäfer, Mirko Tobias, author.

Schäfer, Mirko Tobias, Author.

Series:

MediaMatters.

MediaMatters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information society.

Digital media--Social aspects.

Digital media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2025.

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

<p>In the wake of the recent far-reaching changes in the use and accessibility of technology in our society, the average person is far more engaged with digital culture than ever before. They are not merely subject to technological advances but actively use, create, and mold them in everyday routines - connecting with loved ones and strangers through the Internet and smart phones, navigating digital worlds for work and recreation, extracting information from vast networks, and even creating and customizing interfaces to best suit their needs. In this timely work, Mirko Tobias Schöfer delves deep into the realities of user participation, the forms it takes, and the popular discourse around new media. Drawing on extensive research into hacking culture, fan communities, and Web 2.0 applications, Schöfer offers a critical approach to the hype around user participation and exposes the blurred boundaries between industry-driven culture and the domain of the user.</p>

Contents:

1. Promoting Utopia/selling technology : Cisco Systems: empowering the Internet generation ; Web 2.0: celebrating collaboration

2. Claiming participation : New media, new participation? ; Domains of user participation ; Explicit and implicit participation

3. Enabling/repressing participation : The computer ; Software ; The Internet

4. Bastard culture : Participation as explicit media practice ; Participation as implicit media practice

5. The extension of cultural industries : Confrontation: fighting participation ; Implementation: controlling participation ; Integration: embracing participation

6. Participatory culture.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 02 2025)

ISBN:

1-003-69141-2

1-04-079378-9

1-283-02067-X

9786613020673

90-485-1315-4

9781003691419

OCLC:

710974706