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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schäfer, Mirko Tobias
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2010.
Colección:MediaMatters.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 the use of the Internet tend to romanticize emerging media practices, this book steps beyond the usual framework and analyzes user participation in the context of accompanying popular and scholarly discourse, as well as the material aspects of design, and their relation to the practices of design and appropriation.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (256 pages)
ISBN:9789048513154
9048513154