Open 13: The Rise of the Informal Media: How Search Engines, Weblogs, and YouTube Change Public Opinion

by Richard Grusin (contributor), Geert Lovink (Contributor), Oliver Marchart (Contributor)

With the rise of less formal, more personal media outlets like YouTube and blogs, the mass media is no longer our only public forum. This issue of the Dutch architectural journal Open investigates these new user-tailored media, asking, “What are the opportunities for artistic practices and critical forms of publicness?”

160 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2008

About the author

Richard Grusin is Professor of English at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. His research fields include: media, cinema, history of representation, as well as the environmental, cultural, and American studies.

Reviews

[Seth · Rating 3 out of 5]

Whether you want to read a medialogical study of You Tube or a critical analysis of Sontag's essay on the Abu Ghraib photos -this is a great book if you're curious about how people who study media are theorizing about web 2.0. It's current and accessible.