This book examines the usefulness and limits of DIY citizenship, exploring the diverse forms of political participation and “critical making” that have emerged in recent years. Matt Ratto, Megan Boler (ed.), DIY Citizenship, Critical Making and Social Media, Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 2014. See more
Jonah Berger and Katherine L. Milkman, “Social Transmission, Emotion, and the Virality of Online Content”, Marketing Science Institute Working Paper Series 2010 Report No. 10-114. Abstract: “(…) In this report, Jonah Berger and Katherine Milkman take a psychological approach to understanding diffusion. Using a unique dataset of all the New York Times articles published over a three-month … Continued
Milner, R (2012). The world made meme: discourse identity in participatory media. Doctoral dissertation, University of Kansas. Available at: https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/10256 Google Scholar Abstract: This project explores internet memes as public discourse. ‘Meme’ is a term coined by biologist Richard Dawkins to describe the flow, flux, mutation, and evolution of culture, a cultural counter to the gene. But the … Continued
Jean Burgess, Joshua, YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2009. “Burgess and Green show how, over its more than a decade of existence, YouTube’s dual logics of commerciality and community have persisted, generating new genres of popular culture, new professional identities and business models for the media industries, and giving rise to … Continued