Bastard Culture! How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production

Name: Bastard Culture! How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production
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ISBN: 9789089642561

ISBN-10: 9089642560

ISBN-13: 9789089642561

Edition: 2011

Authors: Mirko Tobias Schï¿½fer, Mirko Tobias Schï¿½fer

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New online technologies have brought with them a great promise of freedom. The computer and particularly the Internet have been represented as enabling technologies, turning consumers into users and users into producers. Furthermore, lay people and amateurs have been enthusiastically greeted as heroes of the digital era. This thoughtful study casts a fresh light on the shaping of user participation in the context of, among others, popular discourse in and around new media. Sch#xE4;fer's groundbreaking research into hacking, fan communities and Web 2.0 applications demonstrates how the dynamic of innovation, control and interaction have shifted the boundaries of the traditional culture…

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List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Publication date: 2/4/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.65" wide x 9.13" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Marianne van den Boomen, Sybille Lammes, Ann-Sophie Lehmann, Joost Raessens, and Mirko Tobias Schï¿½fer are all researchers at the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Utrecht.



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Promoting Utopia/Selling technology



Cisco Systems: empowering the Internet generation



Web 2.0: celebrating collaboration



Claiming Participation



New media, new participation?



Domains of user participation



Explicit and implicit participation



Enabling/Repressing Participation



The computer



Software



The Internet



Bastard Culture



Participation as explicit media practice



Participation as implicit media practice



The Extension of Cultural Industries



Confrontation: fighting participation



Implementation: controlling participation



Integration: embracing participation



Participatory Culture


Notes


Resources


Literature



Abbreviations



Glossary


Index