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The Future of Live
Liveness is a persistent and much-debated concept in media studies. Until recently, it was associated primarily with broadcast media, and television in particular. However, the emergence of social media has brought new forms of liveness into effect. These forms challenge common assumptions about and perspectives on liveness, provoking a revisiting of the concept. In this book, Karin van Es develops a comprehensive understanding of liveness today, and clarifies the stakes surrounding the category of the �live�. She argues that liveness is the product of a dynamic interaction between media institutions, technologies and users. In doing so, she challenges earlier conceptions of the notion, which tended to focus on either one of these contributors to its construction.
By analyzing the �live� in four different cases – a live streaming platform, an online music collaboration website, an example of social TV, and a social networking site – van Es explores the operation of the category and pinpoints the conditions under which it comes into being. The analysis is the starting point for a broader reflection on the relation between broadcast and social media.
By analyzing the �live� in four different cases – a live streaming platform, an online music collaboration website, an example of social TV, and a social networking site – van Es explores the operation of the category and pinpoints the conditions under which it comes into being. The analysis is the starting point for a broader reflection on the relation between broadcast and social media.
180 pages, Paperback
Published December 5, 2016
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December 10, 2016
Media Studies is in trouble. Beyond the Daily Mail 'Mickey Mouse subject' nonsense, the greater problem is that Media Studies lacks 'a project'. Like its more scholarly sister, Cultural Studies, the point of these paradigms is becoming clear.
We are post representation. We are post the study of individual media like radio, television, film or the internet. Interface studies and the complex matrix between screen and sonic cultures remain the riveting and important sites of and for research.
I do not know the point of The Future of Live. It attempts - using dated applications and programmes like The Voice - to argue that 'live' is being digitized. There is no discussion of disintermediation or deterritorialization. No mention of two-screening. Also, there is no theorization of time, and how analogue and digital configurations of time - particularly through popular culture - loop and transform.
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We are post representation. We are post the study of individual media like radio, television, film or the internet. Interface studies and the complex matrix between screen and sonic cultures remain the riveting and important sites of and for research.
I do not know the point of The Future of Live. It attempts - using dated applications and programmes like The Voice - to argue that 'live' is being digitized. There is no discussion of disintermediation or deterritorialization. No mention of two-screening. Also, there is no theorization of time, and how analogue and digital configurations of time - particularly through popular culture - loop and transform.
Give it a miss...
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