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Strangelove, Michael.

Watching YouTube : extraordinary videos by ordinary people / Michael Strangelove. - Toronto ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : University of Toronto Press, c2010. - 265 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. - Digital futures . - Digital futures. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-246) and indexes.

Home movies in a global village -- The home and family on YouTube -- Video diaries: the real you in YouTube -- Women of the 'Tube -- The YouTube community -- The YouTube wars: politics, religion, and armed conflict -- The post-television audience.

Michael Strangelove provides a broad overview of the world of amateur online videos and the people who make them. He describes how online digital video is both similar to and different from traditional home-movie-making and argues that we are moving into a post-television era characterized by mass participation. --from publisher description

ISBN: 9781442641457 (bound) 1442641452 (bound) 9781442610675 (pbk.) 1442610670 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2010481578

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB088375 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 20109007093 015593909 Uk

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
YouTube (Electronic resource)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Internet videos--Social aspects.
Online social networks--Social aspects.
Mass media and culture.

LC Class. No.: HM 851 / .S774 2010