Video Cultures: Media Technology and Everyday Creativity

ISBN-13: 9780230221864 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 241 str.

Professor David Buckingham; Rebekah Willett

Opis

Over the past decade, there has been a huge increase in ordinary people's access to video production technology. These essays explore the theoretical significance of this trend and its impact on society, as well as examining a wide range of case studies, from camcorders and camera phones to YouTube and citizen journalism --Provided by publisher.

Spis treści

List of Figures Acknowledgements In The Frame: Mapping Camcorder Cultures; R.Willett A Commonplace Art? Understanding Amateur Media Production; D.Buckingham 'Take Back The Tube!': The Discursive Construction of Amateur Film- and Video-Making; D.Buckingham, M.Pini & R.Willett Inside the Home Mode; M.Pini Speaking Back? In Search of the Citizen Journalist; D.Buckingham Parodic Practices: Amateur Spoofs on Video Sharing Sites; R.Willett Skate Perception: Self-Representation, Identity and Visual Style in a Youth Subculture; D.Buckingham Handing Over Control? Access, 'Ordinary People' and Video Nation; J.Henderson In The Bedroom: Sex on Video; M.Pini The Hidden World of Organised Amateur Film-Making; D.Buckingham Always On: Camera Phones, Video Production and Identity; R.Willett Power To The People? The Past and Future of Amateur Video; D.Buckingham Notes Index

O autorze

David Buckingham is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, London University, UK, where he directs the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media. His previous books include Children Talking Television (1993), Moving Images (1996), The Making of Citizens (2000), After the Death of Childhood (2000) and Media Education (2003).