Bastard culture! : user participation and the extension of cultural industries /

The computer and particularly the Internet have been represented as enabling technologies, turning consumers into users and users into producers. The unfolding online cultural production by users has been framed enthusiastically as participatory culture. But while many studies of user activities and...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schäfer, Mirko Tobias
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2010.
Series:MediaMatters.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:The computer and particularly the Internet have been represented as enabling technologies, turning consumers into users and users into producers. The unfolding online cultural production by users has been framed enthusiastically as participatory culture. But while many studies of user activities and the use of the Internet tend to romanticize emerging media practices, this book steps beyond the usual framework and analyzes user participation in the context of accompanying popular and scholarly discourse, as well as the material aspects of design, and their relation to the practices of design and appropriation.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9789048513154
9048513154