Dear colleagues,
Some of you may be interested in my newly published book, Ecologies of
Internet Video: Beyond YouTube, which is part of Routledge’s Research in
Cultural and Media Studies series.
The book explores the complex, dynamic, and contested webs of relationships in
which three different groups of video makers found themselves when
distributing their work on the Internet. It draws upon both the Deleuzian
notion of "assemblage" and Actor-Network Theory, which together provide a rich
conceptual framework for characterizing and analysing these webs. The groups
examined are a UK video activist project, a community of film and television
fans originating in the US, and an association of US community television
producers.
Rather than taking YouTube as its point of departure, this book centres on the
groups themselves, contextualizing their contemporary distribution practices
within their pre-Internet histories. It then follows the groups as they drew
upon various Internet technologies beyond YouTube to create their
often-complex video distribution assemblages, a process that entangled them in
these webs of relationships.
Through the analysis of detailed ethnographic fieldwork conducted across a
period of several years, this book demonstrates that while the groups found
some success in achieving their various goals as video makers, their
situations were often problematic and their agency limited, with their
practices contested by both human and technological actors within their
distribution assemblages.
More information on the book is available here:
https://www.routledge.com/Ecologies-of-Internet-Video-Beyond-YouTube/Hondros/
p/book/9781138895560
Dr John Hondros
School of Media, Film and Music
University of Sussex
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