Document Type
Review
Abstract
[First paragraph]
In YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture, Jean Burgess and Joshua Green subtly uncover what proves to be a slippery and mutable object. They caution against those who would simplify YouTube's meaning by presenting it as mainly any one of the following: (1) a channel for distribution of content first produced for film and television; (2) a sign of the inevitable demise of broadcast media, and a provocation to those who want to drain the last dregs of profit from existing intellectual properties; (3) an outlet for every zany underground community's self-articulation; (4) the latest instance of a perennial folk cultural impulse; or (5) a manifestation of the self-regarding zeitgeist of Web 2.0's "participatory turn," as you scramble to make your presence felt online, enjoined to "Broadcast Yourself" by YouTube Inc.'s sloganeers.
Repository Citation
Brouillette, Sarah. "Review of YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture, by Jean Burgess and Joshua Green." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 9, no. 3, 2009, pp. 1–3. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol9/iss3/16