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* A timely account of this incredibly popular site of online participatory media. * The authors provide a clear and comprehensive overview of this phenomenon. The book also includes important contributions by Henry Jenkins and John Hartley, both experts in this field.
List of contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgments x
1 How YouTube Matters 1
2 YouTube and the Mainstream Media 15
3 YouTube's Popular Culture 38
4 YouTube's Social Network 58
5 YouTube's Cultural Politics 75
6 YouTube's Uncertain Futures 100
Henry Jenkins: What Happened Before YouTube 109
John Hartley: Uses of YouTube - Digital Literacy and the Growth of Knowledge 126
Notes 144
References 152
Index 170
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"Jean Burgess and Joshua Green insightfully weave together an engaging and much-needed cultural narrative of the astonishing new phenomenon that is YouTube with an incisive critique of its rapidly-mythologised yet deeply uncertain transformative potential."
Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics and Political Science
"This book is an important and timely contribution to the literature on participatory culture and media. The analyses provide empirical bases for understanding the diversity of YouTube users' practices and sophisticated theoretical consideration of the social, cultural, political, historical and economic contexts in which these practices are situated and which they so often disrupt."
Nancy Baym, University of Kansas
