Bastard culture! user participation and the extension of cultural industries

The computer and particularly the Internet have been represented as enabling technologies, turning consumers into users and users into producers. The unfolding online cultural production by users has been framed enthusiastically as participatory culture. But while many studies of user activities and...

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Main Author: Schäfer, Mirko Tobias
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2010, 2010
Series:Mediamatters
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