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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schäfer, Mirko Tobias
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2010.
Series:MediaMatters.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Promoting Utopia/Selling Technology
  • 1.1. Cisco Systems: empowering the Internet generation
  • 1.2. Web 2.0: celebrating collaboration
  • ch. 2 Claiming Participation
  • 2.1. New media, new participation?
  • 2.2. Domains of user participation
  • 2.3. Explicit and implicit participation
  • ch. 3 Enabling/Repressing Participation
  • 3.1. computer
  • 3.2. Software
  • 3.3. Internet
  • ch. 4 Bastard Culture
  • 4.1. Participation as explicit media practice
  • 4.2. Participation as implicit media practice
  • ch. 5 Extension of Cultural Industries
  • 5.1. Confrontation: fighting participation
  • 5.2. Implementation: controlling participation
  • 5.3. Integration: embracing participation
  • ch. 6 Participatory Culture.