Amateur Media
Author | : Dan Hunter |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2013 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780415782654 |
ISBN-13 | : 0415782651 |
Rating | : 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: The rise of Web 2.0 has pushed the amateur to the forefront of public discourse, public policy and media scholarship. Typically non-salaried, non-specialist and untrained in media production, amateur producers are now seen as key drivers of the creative economy. 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, media studies and literary studies based in the US and Australia.