[ecrea] New book: Ecologies of Internet Video: Beyond YouTube

Some of you may be interested in my newly published book, /Ecologies of 
Internet Video: Beyond YouTube,/ which is part of Routledge’s Research 
in Cultural and Media Studies series.

The book explores the complex, dynamic, and contested webs of 
relationships in which three different groups of video makers found 
themselves when distributing their work on the Internet. It draws upon 
both the Deleuzian notion of "assemblage" and Actor-Network Theory, 
which together provide a rich conceptual framework for 
characterizing and analysing these webs. The groups examined are a UK 
video activist project, a community of film and television fans 
originating in the US, and an association of US community television 
producers.

Rather than taking YouTube as its point of departure, this book centres 
on the groups themselves, contextualizing their contemporary 
distribution practices within their pre-Internet histories. It 
then follows the groups as they drew upon various Internet technologies 
beyond YouTube to create their often-complex video distribution 
assemblages, a process that entangled them in these webs of relationships.

Through the analysis of detailed ethnographic fieldwork conducted across 
a period of several years, this book demonstrates that while the groups 
found some success in achieving their various goals as video makers, 
their situations were often problematic and their agency limited, with 
their practices contested by both human and technological actors within 
their distribution assemblages.

More information on the book is available here: 
https://www.routledge.com/Ecologies-of-Internet-Video-Beyond-YouTube/Hondros/p/book/9781138895560


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