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Strangelove, Michael.

Watching YouTube extraordinary videos by ordinary people / Michael Strangelove. - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (c)2010. - 1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations, portraits. - Digital futures .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Home movies in a global village -- The home and family on YouTube -- Video diaries: the real you in YouTube -- Women of the 'Tube -- The YouTube community -- The YouTube wars: politics, religion, and armed conflict -- The post-television audience.

Michael Strangelove provides a broad overview of the world of amateur online videos and the people who make them. He describes how online digital video is both similar to and different from traditional home-movie-making and argues that we are moving into a post-television era characterized by mass participation. --from publisher description.



ISBN: 9781442687035

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Subjects--Uniform Titles:
YouTube (Electronic resource)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Internet videos--Social aspects.
Online social networks--Social aspects.
Mass media and culture.
Internet--Aspecto social.
Redes sociales.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic Books.

LC Class. No.: HM851 / .W383 2010