Amateur media : social, cultural and legal perspectives / edited by Dan Hunter. [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hunter, Dan, Prof.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social media--Law and legislation.

Social media.

User-generated content.

Internet--Law and legislation.

Internet.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The rise of Web 2.0 has pushed the amateur to the forefront of public discourse, public policy and media scholarship. Typically non-salaried, non-specialist and untrained in media production, amateur producers are now seen as key drivers of the creative economy. But how do the activities of citizen journalists, fan fiction writers and bedroom musicians connect with longer traditions of extra-institutional media production? This edited collection provides a much-needed interdisciplinary contextualisation of amateur media before and after Web 2.0. Surveying the institutional, ec

Contents:

Histories of user-generated content: between formal and informal media economies / Ramon Lobato, Julian Thomas and Dan Hunter

Competing myths of informal economies / Megan Richardson and Jake Goldenfein

Start with the household / John Quiggin

Amateur digital content and proportional commerce / Steven Hetcher

Youtube and the formalisation of amateur media / Jean Burgess

The relationship between user-generated content and commerce / Kimberlee Weatherall

The manufacture of 'authentic' buzz and the legal relations of masterchef / Kathy Bowrey

Harry Potter and the transformation wand : fair use, canonicity and fan activity / David Tan

The simulation of 'authentic' buzz : T-mobile and the flash mob dance / Marc Trabsky

Prestige and professionalisation at the margins of the journalistic field : the case of music writers / Ramon lobato and Lawson Fletcher

Swedish subtitling strike called off! : fan-to-fan piracy, translation, and the primacy of authorisation / Eva Hemmungs Wirtén

Have amateur media enhanced the possibilities for good media work? / David Hesmondhalgh

Minecraft as web 2.0 : amateur creativity and digital games / Greg Lastowka

Cosplay, creativity and immaterial labours of love / Melissa de Zwart

Web zero: the amateur and the indie game developer / Christian McCrea

Anonymous speech on the internet / Brian Murchison

The privacy interest in anonymous blogging / Lisa Austin

'privacy' of social networking texts / Megan Richardson and Julian Thomas.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-71046-3

0-203-11202-4

1-136-28080-4

9780203112021

OCLC:

818113750