Monday, March 31, 2008

Additional Sources on Amateur Media Production

Below are some helpful articles for research on the cultural significance of amateur blog production online:


Fernando Angelo, "Citizen-Powered Journalism Fills the Void", Communication World" (2008).

TJ Johnson and BK Kaye, "Wag the Blog: How Reliance on Traditional Media and the Internet Influence Credibility Perceptions", Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly (2004).

David D. Perlmutter "Political Blogs: The New Iowa?", Chronicle of Higher Education (2006).

Angeld Fernando, "Big Blogger is Watching You! Reputation Management in an Opinionated, Hyperlinked World", Communication World (2004).

Here are some examples of sites where amateur non personal blogs can be posted:


Below are some helpful articles for research on the cultural significance of amateur photography production online:

Noam Cohen, "Use My Photo? Not Without My Permission", The New York Times (2008).

Mark Glaser, "Flickr, Buzznet Expand Citizens' Role in Visual Journalism", Online Journalism Review (2005).

Stephen Shankland, "Pro Photographers' Loss, but Amateurs' Gain", CNET Underexposed (2007).

Here are some examples of sites where amateur photography can be posted:


Below are some helpful articles for research on the cultural significance of amateur music production online:

Daniel Roy, "Hip Hop Music Technology and Blowing Up", (2003).

Julian Knowles, "A Survey of Web 2.0 Music Trends and Some Implications for Tertiary Music Communities", NACTMUS (2007).

Maarten Brinkerink, "The Online Music Dream: MP3.com pioneering new ways of producing, distributing and consuming music online", (2004).

Michael D. Ayers, "Cybersounds: Essays on Virtual Music Culture", Peter Lang (2006).
  • Specifically the chapter titled "Do U Produce?: Subcultural Capital and Amateur Musicianship in Peer-to-Peer Networks" by Andrew Whelan
Steve Jones, "Music and the Internet", Popular Music (2000).*

Here are some examples of sites where amateur music can be posted:


Below are some helpful articles for research on the cultural significance of amateur video production online:


Meeyoung Cha, Haewoon Kwak, Pablo Rodriguez, Yong-Yoel Ahn, Sue Moon, "I Tube, You Tube, Everybody Tubes: Analyzing the Worlds Largest User Generated Content Video Sytem", Association for Computing Machinery (2007).

Lucas Hilderbrand,
"Youtube: Where Cultural Memory and Copyright Converge", Film Quarterly 61:48-57 (2007).

P. Isomursu, M. Perala, L. Tasajarvi, M. Isomursu, " Internet-Based Amateur Video Delivery: The Users and their Requirements", System Sciences (2004).

Xu Cheng, Cameron Dale, Jiangchuan Liu, "Understanding the Characteristics of Internet Short Video Sharing: You Tube as a Case Study", ArVix (2007).

Amber Frid-Jimenez, "Leave Any Noise at the Signal : Participation Art Online", Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2007).

Here are some examples of sites where amateur video can be posted:






*The full text is available through the Cornell Library Network.