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Video Vortex reader : responses to Youtube

The Video Vortex Reader is the first collection of critical texts to deal with the rapidly emerging world of online video – from its explosive rise in 2005 with YouTube, to its future as a significant form of personal media. After years of talk about digital convergence and crossmedia platforms we now witness the merger of the Internet and television at a pace no-one predicted. These contributions from scholars, artists and curators evolved from the first two Video Vortex conferences in Brussels and Amsterdam in 2007 which focused on responses to YouTube, and address key issues around independent production and distribution of online video content. What does this new distribution platform mean for artists and activists? What are the alternatives

Incommunicado reader

The term incommunicado generally refers to a state of being without the means to communicate. Incommunicado currently implies not only being out of touch, but also being readied for violation, or potentially so -- contact is withheld; protective authorities are out of reach. In extra-judicial places across the world, access may be blocked and reporting may be late, but information still seeps out. The Incommunicado Reader aims to be part of this information collection, and provides reflection on where the discussion could begin anew

The digital given: 10 Theses

As he developed precedently with the phenomenon of Wikileaks professor Lovink and their colleagues present us 10 fundamental thesis about the new digital media, discussing their importance and the features of their progress, from a critical and polemical perspective, analyzing the hidden aspects as well as the potential undeveloped of socio-political possibilities that were implied in them

Organize

Digital media technologies re-pose the question of organization - and thus of power and domination, control and surveillance, disruption and emancipation. This book interrogates organization as effect and condition of media. How can we understand the recursive relationship between media and organization? How can we think, explore, critique - and perhaps alter - the organizational bodies and scripts that shape contemporary life