Bastard Culture! : How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production.

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 hero...

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Main Author:	Schäfer, M. T.
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2011.
Series:	MediaMatters, 6.
Subjects:	Information society. Digital media > Social aspects. Société de l'information. Médias numériques > Aspect social. Media studies. Society and culture: general. Society and social sciences Society and social sciences. Computers and IT. Digital media > Social aspects Information society Electronic books. Electronic resource.
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Summary:	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. Schäfer's groundbreaking research into hacking, fan communities and Web 2.0 applications demonstrates how the dynamic of inches.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (251 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9789048513154 9048513154 128302067X 9781283020671 9089642560 9789089642561 9789048513155