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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | MediaMatters, 6.
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| Online Access: | Connect to Bastard Culture! : How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production (one simultaneous user allowed) |
| 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 in. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (251 pages) ; cm. |
| ISBN: | 9789048513154 9048513154 9786613020673 6613020672 |