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YouTube book: 2nd edition
In case you missed it, the second edition of YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture is now out in bookstores everywhere, with its snazzy new red cover! Here is the Preface to the second edition: The original aim of this book was, as we wrote in the Preface, ‘to work through some of the often competing ideas about just what…
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YouTube book: now out in Polish
The Polish edition of our YouTube book landed on my desk this morning, and has now joined the English, Italian and Portuguese versions on my bookshelves. That’s 3 languages down… The publisher didn’t supply an English translation of the new preface by Edwin Bendyk (time to call in a few favours from my Polish-speaking friends,…
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a (very) short history of social media taglines
Lawson Fletcher has written a very insightful post about a funny little Twitter exchange I had with various people last night, prompted by some observations I made about the way social media taglines have changed over the past 5 years or so. Go over there to see how it all started. While it was mostly…
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Travel Gazette 1: Ankara & Istanbul
I’m still near to the beginning of a five-week research trip through Europe – I get home at just about the end of October. I’m going to do a series of gazettey blog posts, both as an aide-memoire and a way of sharing my trip given the patchiness of internet connectivity that goes hand in…
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Talkings (updated)
Following the Association of Internet Researchers conference in Copenhagen later this week (which I’m very excited about!), I’ll be spending a few days in the UK and I’m giving a couple of talks there. The first is at City University, where the CCI has established a ‘node’. QUT colleague John Banks and I will be…
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Out now: The Video Vortex Reader
The Video Vortex Reader is a new collection of critical essays on online video, edited by Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer published by the Institute of Network Cultures. It has just been launched, and it’s available for free download as a pdf! The Video Vortex Reader is the first collection of critical texts to deal…
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Creating Value Conference: Keynote addresses now available online
From 25th – 27th June 2008, our research centre, the CCi, held its International Conference – Creating Value: Between Commerce and Commons. You can now watch video footage from two of the keynote addresses made over the course of the conference, from Baroness Susan Greenfield (‘Creating Creative Brains’) and Professor Henry Jenkins (‘What Happened Before…
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ICA Montreal: Quick Wrap-Up
A couple of days ago I got back from the International Communication Association conference in Montreal. I loved the city instantly, and the week I spent there was very productive — although similarly to Jon Gray’s experience, the most productive and inspiring moments occurred in between everything else — chats in the foyers in between…
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What is Flickr Video For?
So Flickr finally ended the years of rumour-mongering and actually rolled out video. I was interested to see the way the official announcement carefully positioned the purposes of video on Flickr within the company’s (tasteful, cosmopolitan, playfully grown-up) brand identity, and its focus on self-created content: we thought long and hard about how video would…
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awesome animations, the history of the world, science and religion and everything
Via YouTube’s new recommended for you feature and also via Twitter, I found this really excellent re-imagining of the Star Wars title sequence as if created by the great designer and filmmaker Saul Bass: Via the ‘related videos’ feature, I came across Bass’s wonderful short film Why Man Creates, which won an Academy Award in…