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Van Esler, Mike.

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

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	More Than Movies: Social Formations in Informal Networks of Media Sharing./
Author:	Van Esler, Mike.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	302 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-02A(E).
Subject:	Film studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10289417
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. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 302 p.

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

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 2017.

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.

ISBN: 9780355350753Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122736
Film studies.

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