Dzien z życia Ziemi, czyli YouTube jako cyberkultura

• Authors: Zaglewski Tomasz

Title variants

EN

A DAY FROM LIFE ON EARTH, OR YOUTUBE AS CYBERCULTURE

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article attempt to define YouTube's cyberculture by describing a model of its user and by showing the ways of participation in this particular cyberspace. Author starts his research by mentioning the rick roll strategy as one of the major practices of 'using' the YouTube content. However the main part of the article is concentrating on the efforts to reveal YouTube as a cyberculture thanks to the analysis of Life in a Day production and its reception. And so, one of the crucial theories that constitute YouTube as an individual medium is the one explored by Richard Grusin. Grusin's thesis about the re-mediated and pre-mediated aspects of new media helps to understand the main idea of YouTube as a socio- technical proposition as well as Jan van Dijk's characteristic of the new media offers like fragmentarization of the cultural texts or its constant visualization. By referring to the Life in a Day project, author of the article is able to point out the basic determinants of YouTube's cyberculture by describing it as an example of digitalized bedroom culture and snack culture (both terms links with a specific tradition of thinking about the media consumers and consumption itself).

Keywords

EN

CYBERCULTURE; CYBERSPACE; LIFE IN A DAY; YOUTUBE

Discipline

• MEDIA_&_COMMUNICATION: MEDIA & COMMUNICATION

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Przegląd Kulturoznawczy
• Year: 2011
• Issue: 1(9)
• Pages: 90-108
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zaglewski Tomasz

• Tomasz Zaglewski, Instytut Kulturoznawstwa, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, ul. A. Szamarzewskiego 89, 60-568 Poznan, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA10188