Music, Social Media and Global Mobility: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube

ISBN-13: 9780415882743 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 192 str.

Ole J. Mjos

Opis

This book is about the relationship between media, communication and globalization, explored through the unique empirical study of electronic music practitioners' use of the global social media: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. To understand the significance of the emerging nexus between social media and music in a global context, the book explores various aspects of production, distribution and consumption among electronic music practitioners as they engage with global social media, as well as a historical, political and economic exposition of the rise of this global social media environment. Drawing on interview-based research with electronic music artists, DJs, producers and managers, together with the historical portrayal of the emergence of global social media this pioneering study aims to capture a development taking place in music culture within the wider transformations of the media and communications landscape; from analogue to digital, from national to global, and from a largely passive to more active media use.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Global Social Media and Media Globalization  3. The Emergence of a Global Social Media Environment: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube  4. The Global Social Media and Music Nexus  5. Social Media and Music Practice: Connectedness or Closed Circuit?  6. The Logic of Social Media: Power, Participation and Paradox  7. New Spaces of Global Mobility: Re-evaluating Media Globalization

O autorze

Ole J. Mjøs is Associate Professor at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway. He is the author of Media Globalization and the Discovery Channel Networks (Routledge, 2010). His previous practical experience in the media and creative industries includes work in television documentary production, and contributions on many records within the wide genre of electronic music.