A thorough analysis of contemporary digital media practices, showing how people increasingly not only consume but also produce and even design media. With many new forms of digital media-including such popular social media as Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr-the people formerly known as the audience no longer only consume but also produce and even design media. Jonas Loewgren and Bo Reimer term this phenomenon collaborative media, and in this book they investigate the qualities and characteristics of these forms of media in terms of what they enable people to do. They do so through an interdisciplinary research approach that combines the social sciences and humanities traditions of empirical and theoretical work with practice-based, design-oriented interventions. Loewgren and Reimer offer analysis and a series of illuminating case studies-examples of projects in collaborative media that range from small multidisciplinary research experiments to commercial projects used by millions of people. Loewgren and Reimer discuss the case studies at three levels of analysis: society and the role of collaborative media in societal change; institutions and the relationship of collaborative media with established media structures; and tribes, the nurturing of small communities within a large technical infrastructure. They conclude by advocating an interventionist turn within social analysis and media design.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
MIT Press LTD
ISBN-13
9780262019767
eBay Product ID (ePID)
176547843
Product Key Features
Series
The Mit Press
Author
Bo Reimer, Jonas Loewgren
Publication Name
Collaborative Media: Production, Consumption, and Design Interventions
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Computer Science
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229 mm
Item Width
178 mm
Item Weight
553 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Title_Author
Bo Reimer, Jonas Loewgren
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