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.
9781442687035
YouTube (Electronic resource)
Internet videos--Social aspects. Online social networks--Social aspects. Mass media and culture. Internet--Aspecto social. Redes sociales.