Titlebook: Video Cultures; Media Technology and David Buckingham (Director),Rebekah Willett (Lectu Book 2009 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmill

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,Handing Over Control? Access, ‘ordinary people’ and Video Nation,roviding material for television and radio broadcasting. Participants are invited to submit self-filmed video diaries on a range of self-selected or BBC-defined themes and subjects. On its website, the project presents itself as a neutral platform where ‘ordinary people’ are encouraged to represent

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代理人

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Always on: Camera Phones, Video Production and Identity,duction, camera phones are increasingly being used as instruments of secret surveillance. They have been used to record questionable disciplinary procedures in schools, for example, and as means of bullying and harassment. Camera phones are a key component of the ‘happy slapping’ phenomenon, whereby

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A Commonplace Art? Understanding Amateur Media Production,er questions at stake in understanding such popular representational practices. In the process, it looks beyond these visual media to other forms of artistic endeavour, as well as considering more general issues to do with amateurism, leisure, creativity and learning.

FRAUD

Speaking Back? In Search of the Citizen Journalist,is, mobile cameras and message services, peer-to-peer networking and user-generated content sites — all are part of a new ‘do-it-yourself’ movement that is seen to be undermining and even directly challenging the power of big commercial media corporations. We can all be journalists now — or so the story goes.

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Skate Perception: Self-Representation, Identity and Visual Style in a Youth Subculture,ents. It was not until Sara Thornton’s work on club cultures (Thornton, 1995) that researchers turned their attention to the ways in which youth groups might positively . specialist or ‘niche’ media for their own purposes — not merely to disseminate information, but also to establish (and to regulate) collective identity.

依法逮捕

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,Handing Over Control? Access, ‘ordinary people’ and Video Nation,ce approved by the participant, is uploaded onto the project website and archive. As indicated in the quote above, Video Nation claims that the participant has ultimate control over the finished video in the form of a veto that may be enacted at any point.