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Bastard culture! : how user participation transforms cultural production

Title
Bastard culture! : how user participation transforms cultural production / Mirko Tobias Schäfer.
Author
Schäfer, Mirko Tobias.
Publication
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2011.

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Description
249 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
Publisher description: In the wake of the recent far-reaching changes in the use and accessibility of technology in our society, the average person is far more engaged with digital culture than ever before. They are not merely subject to technological advances but actively use, create, and mold them in everyday routines-connecting with loved ones and strangers through the Internet and smart phones, navigating digital worlds for work and recreation, extracting information from vast networks, and even creating and customizing interfaces to best suit their needs. In this timely work, Mirko Tobias Scha;fer delves deep into the realities of user participation, the forms it takes, and the popular discourse around new media. Drawing on extensive research into hacking culture, fan communities, and Web 2.0 applications, Scha;fer offers a critical approach to the hype around user participation and exposes the blurred boundaries between industry-driven culture and the domain of the user.
Series Statement
MediaMatters
Uniform Title
MediaMatters
Subject
  • Information society
  • Digital media > Social aspects
  • Computers and IT
  • Digital media > Social aspects
  • Information society
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-231) and index.
Contents
1. Promoting Utopia/selling technology : Cisco Systems: empowering the Internet generation ; Web 2.0: celebrating collaboration -- 2. Claiming participation : New media, new participation? ; Domains of user participation ; Explicit and implicit participation -- 3. Enabling/repressing participation : The computer ; Software ; The Internet -- 4. Bastard culture : Participation as explicit media practice ; Participation as implicit media practice -- 5. The extension of cultural industries : Confrontation: fighting participation ; Implementation: controlling participation ; Integration: embracing participation -- 6. Participatory culture.
ISBN
  • 9789089642561
  • 9089642560
  • 9789048513154
  • 9048513154
LCCN
2011493119
OCLC
  • ocn730264174
  • 730264174
  • SCSB-8803556
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library