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Watching YouTube
Michael Strangelove
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Description for Watching YouTube
Paperback. Watching YouTube raises questions about the future of cultural memory, identity, politics, warfare, and family life when everyday representational practices are altered by four billion cameras in the hands of ordinary people. Series: Digital Futures. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 425.
An anonymous musician plays Pachelbel's Canon on the electric guitar in a clip that has been viewed over sixty million times. The Dramatic Gopher is viewed over sixteen million times, as is a severely inebriated David Hasselhoff attempting to eat a hamburger. Over 800 variations, parodies, and parodies-of-parodies are uploaded of Beyonce Knowles' Single Ladies dance. Tay Zonday sings Chocolate Rain in a video viewed almost forty million times and scores himself a record deal. Obama Girl enters the political arena with contributions such as I Got a Crush on Obama and gets coverage in mainstream news networks.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1910
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Digital Futures
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442610675
SKU
V9781442610675
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About Michael Strangelove
Michael Strangelove has been called a “guru of Internet advertising” (Wired) and “the man who literally wrote the book on commercialization of the net” (Canadian Business). He is a lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Ottawa.
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