Amateur Media : Social, Cultural and Legal Perspectives (Paperback)

Section I: Economic histories 1. Histories of user-generated content: between formal and informal media economies2. Competing myths of informal economies 3. Start with the household Section II: Platform politics 4. Amateur digital content and proportional commerce 5. YouTube and the formalisation of amateur media 6. The relationship between user-generated content and commerce Section III: Amateurs and authenticity 7. The manufacture of ‘authentic’ buzz and the legal relations of MasterChef 8. Harry Potter and the transformation wand: fair use, canonicity and fan activity 9. The simulation of ‘authentic’ buzz: T-Mobile and the flash mob dance Section IV: Cultural intermediaries 10. Prestige and professionalisation at the margins of the journalistic field: the case of music writers 11. Swedish subtitling strike called off! Fan-to-fan piracy, translation, and the primacy of authorisation 12. Have amateur media enhanced the possibilities for good media work? Section V: Property and play 13. Minecraft as Web 2.0: amateur creativity and digital games 14. Cosplay, creativity and immaterial labours of love 15. Web Zero: the amateur and the indie game developer Section VI: Anonymity, identity and publicity 16. Anonymous speech on the internet 17. The privacy interest in anonymous blogging 18. ‘Privacy’ of social networking texts