Amateur Media and Participatory Cultures: Film, Video, and Digital Media

Amateur Media and Participatory Cultures explores the boundary between amateur media and professional media, proposing interpretative frameworks from historical to anthropological perspectives. It highlights the merging of amateur media concepts across global visual narratives and everyday communication protocols, assessing differences based on technical skills, staging, censoring, and media socialization. The book's interdisciplinary approach provides insights into visual priming, cultural experiences, and memory-building in new media technologies and visual channels.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 164 pages
\n Publication date: 31 January 2019
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Amateur Media and Participatory Cultures is a comprehensive exploration that seeks to establish a clear distinction between contemporary amateur media practices and the established standards of professional media and film. By identifying a range of interpretative frameworks, spanning historical and anthropological perspectives, the volume proposes a critical language capable of adapting to the rapid technological and interpretative advancements in amateur and new media.

Recognizing that amateur media continues to be regarded as the gold standard for capturing visual records of authentic events rather than those derived from mass media, Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes and Susan Aasman devote particular attention to how diverse concepts of amateur media have converged across global visual narratives and everyday communication protocols. Building upon key research questions and content analysis in media and communication studies, they examine the differences between professional and amateur media productions based on the influence and challenges posed by the contexts in which the image originators operate. Their findings suggest that technical skills, degrees of staging and visual information censorship, as well as patterns of media socialization, constitute the central distinctions between professional and amateur media production, distribution, and consumption.

The book adopts a methodical and interdisciplinary approach, offering insightful perspectives on how visual priming, cultural experiences, and memory-building are currently shaped, stored, and redistributed across new media technologies and visual channels. By delving into these aspects, Amateur Media and Participatory Cultures contributes to our understanding of the evolving dynamics of visual communication and its impact on society.

\n Weight: 280g\n
Dimension: 233 x 162 x 10 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781138226159\n \n