Bastard Culture! : How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production.

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, Mirko Tobias
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2011.
Series:MediaMatters, 6.
Subjects:
Information society.
Digital media > Social aspects.
Digital media.
Online Access:Connect to Bastard Culture! : How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production (one simultaneous user allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Promoting Utopia/Selling Technology
  • Chapter 2. Claiming Participation
  • Chapter 3. Enabling/Repressing Participation
  • Chapter 4. Bastard Culture
  • Chapter 5. The Extension of Cultural Industries
  • Chapter 6. Participatory Culture
  • Notes
  • Resources
  • Literature
  • Appendix A Abbreviations
  • Appendix B Glossary
  • INDEX.

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