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[ecrea] new book - Bastard Culture! How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production

Sun Feb 13 11:26:54 GMT 2011


Bastard Culture! How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production
M.T. Schäfer

New online technologies have brought with them a great promise of freedom. The computer and particularly the internet have been represented as enabling technologies, turning consumers into users and users into producers. This thoughtful study casts a fresh light on the shaping of user participation in the context of, among others, popular discourse in and around new media.

Schäfer?s groundbreaking research into hacking, fan communities and Web 2.0 applications demonstrates how the dynamic of innovation, control and interaction have shifted the boundaries of the traditional culture industry into the user domain. The media industry undergoes a shift from creating content to providing platforms for user driven social interactions and user-generated content. In this extended culture industry, participation unfolds not only in the co-creation of media content and software-based products, but also in the development and defense of distinctive media practices that represent a socio-political understanding of new technologies.

"Profound and meticulously researched work, which has expanded my worldview."--Howard Rheingold, lecturer at U.C. Berkeley's School of Information and visiting lecturer at Stanford University's Department of Communication

"Bastard or not, the reality we are creating together [through digital culture] is an odd and often unconscious collaboration between people, corporations, and technology itself. Schaefer has patiently, deliberately, and quite engagingly exposed this hidden landscape of cultural production, and shown us what we might do to direct it toward positive, even evolutionary ends."--Douglas Rushkoff, lecturer in the department of Media Studies, The New School University

Mirko Tobias Schäfer lectures in digital culture at Utrecht University.
Media Matters * ISBN 978 90 8964 256 1 * ? 32.50 * February 2011 * Paperback * 256 pages, 10 b/w illustrations For more information or a course adoption copy please contact Paul Carls on (p.carls /at/ aup.nl)
Or PLEASE VISIT WWW.AUP.NL

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