Amateur media social, cultural and legal perspectives / [electronic resource] : edited by Dan Hunter ... [et al.]. - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013. - xv, 238 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Histories of user-generated content: between formal and informal media economies / Ramon Lobato, Julian Thomas and Dan Hunter -- Competing myths of informal economies / Megan Richardson and Jake Goldenfein -- Start with the household / John Quiggin -- Amateur digital content and proportional commerce / Steven Hetcher -- Youtube and the formalisation of amateur media / Jean Burgess -- The relationship between user-generated content and commerce / Kimberlee Weatherall -- The manufacture of 'authentic' buzz and the legal relations of masterchef / Kathy Bowrey -- Harry Potter and the transformation wand : fair use, canonicity and fan activity / David Tan -- The simulation of 'authentic' buzz : T-mobile and the flash mob dance / Marc Trabsky -- Prestige and professionalisation at the margins of the journalistic field : the case of music writers / Ramon lobato and Lawson Fletcher -- Swedish subtitling strike called off! : fan-to-fan piracy, translation, and the primacy of authorisation / Eva Hemmungs Wirten -- Have amateur media enhanced the possibilities for good media work? / David Hesmondhalgh -- Minecraft as web 2.0 : amateur creativity and digital games / Greg Lastowka -- Cosplay, creativity and immaterial labours of love / Melissa de Zwart -- Web zero: the amateur and the indie game developer / Christian McCrea -- Anonymous speech on the internet / Brian Murchison -- The privacy interest in anonymous blogging / Lisa Austin -- 'privacy' of social networking texts / Megan Richardson and Julian Thomas.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780203112021 (electronic bk.)




Social media--Law and legislation.
User-generated content.
Internet--Law and legislation.


Electronic books.

K564.C6 / A835 2013

302.23/1