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More Than Movies : = Social Formations in Informal Networks of Media Sharing.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	More Than Movies :/
Reminder of title:	Social Formations in Informal Networks of Media Sharing.
Author:	Van Esler, Mike.
Description:	1 online resource (302 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-02A(E).
Subject:	Film studies. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355350753

More Than Movies : = Social Formations in Informal Networks of Media Sharing.
Van Esler, Mike.

More Than Movies :Social Formations in Informal Networks of Media Sharing. - 1 online resource (302 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

This project examines the social structures, formations, and practices of informal networks of media sharing (INMSs) through both historical and sociological lenses. INMSs are comprised of individuals who distribute and circulate media to one another through noncommercial, unauthorized networks. The networks can be centered around texts, such as the early videophile publication The Videophile's Newsletter, or they can be constituted by disparate groups of people who come together as a community using digital platforms like BitTorrent. While nominally concerned with circulating media, INMSs are also sources of social sustenance for their members and are sites of struggle for social and symbolic capital and power. They illuminate the complex ways in which community members utilize media as a starting point to satisfy a variety of needs, including developing bodies of cultural and technical knowledge, thinking through legal and ethical concerns, creating social bonds, and engaging in a variety of pedagogical practices. In short, INMSs are loci of social and cultural meaning-making for their members.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355350753Subjects--Topical Terms:

1179264
Film studies.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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