Amateur Media and Participatory Cultures

Motrescu‐Mayes, Annamaria; Aasman, Susan

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“…YouTube's initial call to 'broadcast yourself' brought new opportunities to present oneself in front of a potentially worldwide audience. 7 The arrival of social media platforms like Facebook or YouTube marked the arrival of social spaces that made the amateur visible in a way that they were never before. 8 Still, despite the changes there is continuity as well, as Henry Jenkins suggested earlier.…”

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Finding Traces in YouTube’s Living Archive: Exploring Informal Archival Practices

Aasman

2019

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This article addresses the challenges that media historians face when they aim to reconstruct the early history of YouTube. Since the platform is constantly adapting its policies, there is a great level of uncertainty as to what is still there or what is no longer traceable. Therefore, addressing the question if and/or how YouTube can be understood as an archive is crucial and, in addition, the issue of how YouTube related content can be used as historical sources. Although many people, including media scholars, treat YouTube like an online open access archive, there are reasons to be cautious. The article will explore strategies dealing with formal but also with informal web archival practices. These informal archival practices concern users who curate early YouTube videos, user profiles and comments or even old layout versions of the website. Developing methods that critically acknowledges user-generated archival practices, and uses the insights of early generation of users' reconstructions of the platform's history, even if it might seem anecdotal evidence, can lead to deeper knowledge of that early community. By actively participating in reconstructing YouTube's recent past these users shape nostalgic narratives while they also collect and share useful information that guide historians finding new traces.

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Finding Traces in YouTube’s Living Archive: Exploring Informal Archival Practices

Aasman

2019

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“…This development has been characterized as a form of "mass amateurization" (Shirky 2008), "mass cultural production" (Manovich 2009) and an "amateurized media universe" (Zimmermann 2013). One could even argue that amateur media production moved from being marginal to a mainstream pursuit, thereby reconfiguring the media landscape (Motrescu-Mayes and Aasman 2019).…”

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Aasman¹,

Heijden²,

Slootweg³

2021

Digital Roots

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British Women's Amateur Film Production

Motrescu‐Mayes¹,

Nicholson²

2020

The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication

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British women's amateur film practice contributes to the rapidly growing specialist field of amateur film studies and to broader cinematic trajectories and media history. Over almost 90 years women used evolving camera technologies—cine, video, and digital—to create visual stories about their lives and the world around them and to experiment with other genres, namely animation and fiction. Their visual practice intersects with wider societal changes and discloses how women negotiated aspects of changing lifestyles, attitudes, and opportunities. Their varied reasons for making and showing films, whether in imperial, postcolonial, or contemporary Britain, and during their years overseas, evidence self‐expression, creativity, and agency. Their informal perspectives differ from the dominant narratives of late imperialism which were mediated via documentary and newsreel productions. Women's amateur films depict interactions shaped by class, gender, and race and disclose subjectivities and perceptions that suggest their filmmakers' responses to changing circumstances, expectations, and notions of authority. Interrogating women's amateur films draws on cross‐archival research, identifies films from public and specialist collections and uses theoretical perspectives central to issues of identity, gender, race and status, national and (post‐)imperial history, visual politics, cinema history, and new media scholarship.

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Amateur Media and Participatory Cultures

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Finding Traces in YouTube’s Living Archive: Exploring Informal Archival Practices

Finding Traces in YouTube’s Living Archive: Exploring Informal Archival Practices

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