1st Edition
Bastard Culture! How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production
By Mirko Tobias Schäfer
Copyright 2011
250 Pages
by
Routledge
New online technologies have brought with them a great promise of freedom. The computer and particularly the Internet have been represented as enabling technologies, turning consumers into users and users into producers. Furthermore, lay people and amateurs have been enthusiastically greeted as heroes of the digital era. This thoughtful study casts a fresh light on the shaping of user... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter 1 Promoting Utopia/Selling Technology, Chapter 2 Claiming Participation, Chapter 3 Enabling/Repressing Participation, Chapter 4 Bastard Culture, Chapter 5 The Extension of Cultural Industries, Chapter 6 Participatory Culture, Notes, Resources, Literature, Appendix A Abbreviations, Appendix B Glossary, INDEX.
Biography
Mirko Tobias Schäfer is Associate Professor of AI, Data & Society at Utrecht University’s research area 'Governing the Digital Society' and the Department for Information and Computing Sciences. Mirko is co-founder and Sciences lead of the Data School. He studies the datafication of public management and engages in the development of responsible and accountable AI and data practices.
