Bastard culture!
Subtitle: how user participation transforms cultural production
By: Mirko Tobias Schäfer
Series: MediaMatters; MediaMatters
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9789089642561
Subjects: Social aspects; Digital media; Information society
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Promoting Utopia/selling technology : Cisco Systems: empowering the Internet generation ; Web 2.0: celebrating collaboration; title: 2. Claiming participation : New media, new participation? ; Domains of user participation ; Explicit and implicit participation; title: 3. Enabling/repressing participation : The computer ; Software ; The Internet; title: 4. Bastard culture : Participation as explicit media practice ; Participation as implicit media practice; title: 5. The extension of cultural industries : Confrontation: fighting participation ; Implementation: controlling participation ; Integration: embracing participation; title: 6. Participatory culture.