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Dzień z życia Ziemi, czyli YouTube jako cyberkultura

Publication date: 15.12.2011

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, 2011, Issue 1 (9) , pp. 90 - 180

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.11.009.0230

Authors

Tomasz Żaglewski
Institute of Cultural Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Szamarzewskiego 89A, 60-568 Poznań
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Dzień z życia Ziemi, czyli YouTube jako cyberkultura

Abstract

A Day from Life on Earth, or YouTube as cyberculture    
The article attempt to define YouTube’s cyberculture by describing a model of its user and by showing the ways of participation in this particular cyberspace. Author starts his research by mentioning the rick roll strategy as one of the major practices of “using” the YouTube content. However the main part of the article is concentrating on the efforts to reveal YouTube as a cyberculture thanks to the analysis of Life in a Day production and its reception. And so, one of the crucial theories that constitute YouTube as an individual medium is the one explored by Richard Grusin. Grusin’s thesis about the re-mediated and pre-mediated aspects of new media helps to understand the main idea of YouTube as a socio- technical proposition as well as Jan van Dijk’s characteristic of the new media offers like fragmentarization of the cultural texts or its constant visualization. By referring to the Life in a Day project, author of the article is able to point out the basic determinants of YouTube’s cyberculture by describing it as an example of digitalized bedroom culture and snack culture (both terms links with a specific tradition of thinking about the media consumers and consumption itself).

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Information: Arts & Cultural Studies Review, 2011, Issue 1 (9) , pp. 90 - 180

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:

Dzień z życia Ziemi, czyli YouTube jako cyberkultura

English:

A Day from Life on Earth, or YouTube as cyberculture

Authors

Institute of Cultural Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Szamarzewskiego 89A, 60-568 Poznań

Published at: 15.12.2011

Article status: Open

Licence: None

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Tomasz Żaglewski (Author) - 100%

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