Youtube: Digital Media & Society

Purchased for potential dissertation research on the advice of Professor John Thompson.

Overview

 * Part of the "Digital Media and Society Series"
 * Takes on YouTube as a "mediated cultural system" (7) to be analyzed through a qualitative and quantitive method (mixed methodology) using various theoretical lens from Henry Jenkins ("participatory culture") and Yochai Benkler ("Wealth of Networks") among pre-existing scholarship on YouTube itself.
 * Framed largely by "culture studies"

Structure

 * 1) How YouTube Matters
 * 2) YouTube and Mainstream Media
 * 3) YouTube's Popular Culture
 * 4) YouTube's Social Network
 * 5) YouTube's Cultural Politics
 * 6) YouTube's Uncertain Futures

Other

 * There are two further essays:


 * 1) Henry Jenkins: What Happened Before YouTube
 * 2) John Hartley: Uses of YouTube


 * Jenkins essay is particularly interesting, as it positions YouTube historically within fan culture and countercultural peer-to-peer production schemas.