Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube

INC Reader #4

by Geert Lovink

about the The VV Reader is the first collection to deal with the rapidly emerging world of online video. After years of talk about digital convergence and crossmedia platforms we now witness the merger of the Internet and television at a pace no-one predicted. Contributions from scholars, artists and curators evolved from the first two Video Vortex conferences, which focused on responses to YouTube. Tilman Baumgärtel,Jean Burgess,Dominick Chen,Sarah Cook,Sean Cubitt,Stefaan Decostere,Thomas Elsaesser,David Garcia,Alexandra Juhasz,Nelli Kambouri and Pavlos Hatzopoulos,Minke Kampman,Seth Keen,Sarah Késenne,Marsha Kinder,Patricia Lange,Elizabeth Losh,Geert Lovink,Andrew Lowenthal,Lev Manovich,Adrian Miles,Matthew Mitchem,Sabine Niederer,Ana Peraica,Birgit Richard,Keith Sanborn,Florian Schneider,Tom Sherman,Jan Simons,Thomas Thiel,Vera Tollmann,Andreas Treske,Peter Westenberg. supported Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, School of Design and Communication, and XS4ALL.

Genres: Cultural, Technology

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Geert Lovink is a Research Professor of Interactive Media at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) and a Professor of Media Theory at the European Graduate School. Lovinl is the founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures, whose goals are to explore, document and feed the potential for socio-economical change of the new media field through events, publications and open dialogue. As theorist, activist and net critic, Lovink has made an effort in helping to shape the development of the web.

Reviews

[mmm · Rating 3 out of 5]

Der Reader ist 2008 erschienen und somit, bei dem Thema wenig überraschend, zu einem Großteil nicht mehr aktuell und nur noch bedingt zur Recherche verwendbar.

Die 31 Texte sind in fünf Kategorien unterteilt:

Theory
(T.Elsaesser, L.Manovich, S.Cubitt, M.Kinder, D.Chen, S.Késenne)

Youtube Studies
(P.Lange, J.Burgess, E.Losh, N.Kambouri et P.Hatzopoulos, A.Juhasz, B.Richard, M.Kampmann)

Art
(T.Sherman, V.Tollmann, S.Cook, T.Thiel, A.Peraica, K.Sanborn, S.Niederer, S.Decostere)

Technology
(A.Treske, A.Miles, S.Keen, J.Simons)

Society and Politics
(F.Schneider, T.Baumgärtel, M.Mitchem, P.Westenberg, D.Garcia, A.Lowenthal)

In allen Kategorien hat sich in den letzten sieben Jahren viel verändert, aber aus meiner Sicht ist der Reader ein guter Startpunkt bzw. eine gute Grundlage um sich dann weiter in das Thema einzuarbeiten.