Amateur Media: Social, Culturual and Legal Perspectives
London; New York: Routledge (2012), xv, 238 pp.
Contains bibliogr. pp. 222-230, index
ISBN 978-0-415-70907-1 (pbk); 978-0-203-11202-1 (ebook)
Signature commbox: 70-Community-E 2012
"This edited collection provides a much-needed interdisciplinary contextualisation of amateur media before and after Web 2.0. Surveying the institutional, economic and legal construction of the amateur media producer via a series of case studies, it features contributions from experts in the fields of law, economics and media studies. Each section of the book contains a detailed case study on a selected topic, followed by two further pieces providing additional analysis and commentary. Using an extraordinary array of case studies and examples, from YouTube to online games, from subtitling communities to reality TV, the book is neither a celebration of amateur production nor a denunciation of the demise of professional media industries. Rather, this book presents a critical dialogue across law and the humanities, exploring the dynamic tensions and interdependencies between amateur and professional creative production." (Publisher description)
I. ECONOMIC HISTORIES
1 Histories of user-generated content: between formal and informal media economies / Ramon Lobato, Julian Thomas and Dan Hunter, 3
2 Competing myths of informal economies / Megan Richardson and Jake Goldenfein, 18
3 Start with the household / John Quiggin, 27
II. PLATFORM POLITICS
4 Amateur digital content and proportional commerce / Steven Hetcher, 35
5 YouTube and the formalisation of amateur media / Jean Burgess, 53
6 The relationship between user-generated content and commerce / Kimberlee Weatherall, 59
III. AMATEURS AND AUTHENTICITY
7 The manufacture of 'authentic' buzz and the legal relations of MasterChef / Kathy Bowrey, 73
8 Harry Potter and the transformation wand: fair use, canonicity and fan activity / David Tan, 94
9 The simulation of 'authentic' buzz: T-mobile and the flash mob dance / Marc Trabsky, 103
IV. CULTURAL INTERMEDIARIES
10 Prestige and professionalisation at the margins of the journalistic field: the case of music writers / Ramon Lobato and Lawson Fletcher, 111
11 Swedish subtitling strike called off! Fan-to-fan piracy, translation, and the primacy of authorisation / Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, 125
12 Have amateur media enhanced the possibilities for good media work? / David Hesmondhalgh, 137
V. PROPERTY AND PLAY
13 Minecraft as Web 2.0: amateur creativity and digital games / Greg Lastowka, 153
14 Cosplay, creativity and immaterial labours of love / Melissa de Zwart, 170
15 Web Zero: the amateur and the indie game developer / Christian McCrea, 178
VI. ANONYMITY, IDENTITY AND PUBLICITY
16 Anonymous speech on the internet / Brian Murchison, 187
17 The privacy interest in anonymous blogging / Lisa Austin, 208
18 'Privacy' of social networking texts / Megan Richardson and Julian Thomas, 215
1 Histories of user-generated content: between formal and informal media economies / Ramon Lobato, Julian Thomas and Dan Hunter, 3
2 Competing myths of informal economies / Megan Richardson and Jake Goldenfein, 18
3 Start with the household / John Quiggin, 27
II. PLATFORM POLITICS
4 Amateur digital content and proportional commerce / Steven Hetcher, 35
5 YouTube and the formalisation of amateur media / Jean Burgess, 53
6 The relationship between user-generated content and commerce / Kimberlee Weatherall, 59
III. AMATEURS AND AUTHENTICITY
7 The manufacture of 'authentic' buzz and the legal relations of MasterChef / Kathy Bowrey, 73
8 Harry Potter and the transformation wand: fair use, canonicity and fan activity / David Tan, 94
9 The simulation of 'authentic' buzz: T-mobile and the flash mob dance / Marc Trabsky, 103
IV. CULTURAL INTERMEDIARIES
10 Prestige and professionalisation at the margins of the journalistic field: the case of music writers / Ramon Lobato and Lawson Fletcher, 111
11 Swedish subtitling strike called off! Fan-to-fan piracy, translation, and the primacy of authorisation / Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, 125
12 Have amateur media enhanced the possibilities for good media work? / David Hesmondhalgh, 137
V. PROPERTY AND PLAY
13 Minecraft as Web 2.0: amateur creativity and digital games / Greg Lastowka, 153
14 Cosplay, creativity and immaterial labours of love / Melissa de Zwart, 170
15 Web Zero: the amateur and the indie game developer / Christian McCrea, 178
VI. ANONYMITY, IDENTITY AND PUBLICITY
16 Anonymous speech on the internet / Brian Murchison, 187
17 The privacy interest in anonymous blogging / Lisa Austin, 208
18 'Privacy' of social networking texts / Megan Richardson and Julian Thomas, 215
