Monthly Archives: May 2011

YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture

YouTube:  online video and participatory culture By Jean Elizabeth Burgess YouTube is one of the most well-known and widely discussed sites of participatory media in the contemporary online environment, and it is the first genuinely mass-popular platform for user-created video. In this timely and comprehensive introduction to how YouTube is being used and why it matters, Burgess and Green discuss the ways that it relates to wider transformations in culture, society and the economy. The book critically examines the public...

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