Watching YouTube: Extraordinary Videos from Ordinary People

摘要

On the surface, it is easy for many people to dismiss a lot of what is called Media Studies. Whether writing critically or academi-cally about television, music, or comic books, people often ask, "How can you study that?" I imagine that when writing an academic treatise on Youllibe, Michael Strangelove heard his fair share of that refrain as well. and of media consumers are no longer valid. With the emergence of the hyperactive audience we witness the appearance of a new model, one of decentralized production and distribution.