The YouTube reader /
Snickars, Pelle.
Vonderau, Patrick.
Stockholm : National Library of Sweden,
[2009].
"When examining YouTube by way of metaphors such as the archive, the medium or the laboratory, one is immediately confronted with a number of inherent (and not easily solvable) conflicts and problems vying for more detailed answers. How does, for instance, the practice of open access relate to traditional archival standards, legal constraints, "old" media distribution and the entrepreneurial interests of the Google subsidiary? To what extent do clip aesthetics challenge traditional notions of, for example, textuality, episodic and serial narrative, documentary forms and also the very basic requirements of teaching and research? And what about the relationships between free-for-download video and mobile devices, between mashup software and patented hardware? How does the promise of empowering the "broadcasters of tomorrow" (YouTube) correspond to the realities of careers in broadcasting and film, to fan participation and management strategies? And finally: if YouTube is to be regarded as the world's largest archive, how do the texts and practices associated with its use work for and against cultural memory?" -- Introduction (p. 17).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 466-485) and indexes.
Part I: Mediality. The future of a medium once known as television / William Uricchio -- The carnival of the new screen : from hegemony to isonomy / Bernard Stiegler -- YouTube at the end of new media / Richard Grusin--- Part II: Usage. Videos of affinity on YouTube / Patricia G. Lange -- The entrepreneurial vlogger : participatory culture beyond the professional-amateur divide / Jean Burgess and Joshua Green -- Writers becoming users : YouTube hype and the Writer's Strike / Patrick Vondereau -- Where quality matters : discourses on the art of making a YouTube video / Eggo Müller -- Breaking the age barrier in the Internet age : the story of Geriatric1927 / Bjørn Sørenssen --- Part III: Form. Digital attractions : reloading early cinema in online video collections / Joost Broeren -- Tales of epiphany and entropy : around the worlds in eighty clicks / Thomas Elsaesser -- Home dance : mediacy and aesthetics of the self on YouTube / Kathrin Peters and Andrea Seier -- "Hey man, nice shot" : setting the Iraq War to music on YouTube / Christian Christensen -- YouTube commemoration : private grief and communal consolation / Malin Wahlberg -- Sports on YouTube / Markus Stauff -- YouTube and the aesthetics of political accountability / Vinzenz Hediger  --- Part IV: Storage. The appearance of archives / Rick Prelinger -- Navigating YouTube : constituting a hybrid information management system / Frank Kessler and Mirko Tobias Schäfer -- The archival cloud / Pelle Snickars -- In the kingdom of shadows : cinematic movement and its digital content / Trond Lundemo -- On the logic of the digital archive / Jens Schröter -- An ocean of sound and image : YouTube in the context of supermodernity / Gunnar Iversen --- Part V: Industry. Economics of sharing platforms : what's wrong with cultural industries? / Joëlle Farchy -- The political economy of YouTube / Janet Wasko and Mary Erickson -- Digital discords in the online media economy : advertising versus content versus copyright / Paul McDonald -- Exploiting YouTube : contradictions of user-generated labor / Mark Andrejevic -- Cybertarians of the world unite : you have nothing to lose but YourTubes! / Toby Miller -- From YouTube to RuTube, or, how I learned to stop worrying and love all tubes / Andrei Gornyk--- Part VI: Curatorship. YouTube as a mirror maze / Giovanna Fossati.
"When examining YouTube by way of metaphors such as the archive, the medium or the laboratory, one is immediately confronted with a number of inherent (and not easily solvable) conflicts and problems vying for more detailed answers. How does, for instance, the practice of open access relate to traditional archival standards, legal constraints, "old" media distribution and the entrepreneurial interests of the Google subsidiary? To what extent do clip aesthetics challenge traditional notions of, for example, textuality, episodic and serial narrative, documentary forms and also the very basic requirements of teaching and research? And what about the relationships between free-for-download video and mobile devices, between mashup software and patented hardware? How does the promise of empowering the "broadcasters of tomorrow" (YouTube) correspond to the realities of careers in broadcasting and film, to fan participation and management strategies? And finally: if YouTube is to be regarded as the world's largest archive, how do the texts and practices associated with its use work for and against cultural memory?" -- Introduction (p. 17).
YouTube (Electronic resource)
Information society.
Internet videos
Online social networks
Internet