TY - BOOK AU - Strangelove,Michael TI - Watching YouTube: extraordinary videos by ordinary people T2 - Digital futures SN - 9781442641457 (bound) AV - HM 851 .S774 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - Toronto, Buffalo [N.Y.] PB - University of Toronto Press KW - YouTube (Electronic resource) KW - Internet videos KW - Social aspects KW - Online social networks KW - Mass media and culture N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -