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Amateur Media and Participatory Cultures

2019
Amateur Media and Participatory Cultures aims to sketch the boundary line between today’s amateur media practice and the cannons of professional media and film practice. Identifying various feasible interpretative frameworks, from historical to anthropological perspectives, it helps develop a critical language able to cope with amateur and new media’s ...
Aasman, Susan, Motrescu-Mayes, Annamaria
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Twitch and Participatory Cultures

2020
Why watch someone else play videogames when you could just play them yourself? This chapter answers this common question while using the popular streaming platform Twitch.tv to debate the notion that videogames are antisocial activities and that watching gameplay is an inactive form of media consumption.
Ashley M.L. Brown, Lis Moberly
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YouTube as a participatory culture

New Directions for Youth Development, 2010
AbstractThere is an explosion of youth subscriptions to original content‐media‐sharing Web sites such as YouTube. These Web sites combine media production and distribution with social networking features, making them an ideal place to create, connect, collaborate, and circulate.
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Creating Participatory Global Cultures

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 1980
This paper, resting on the belief that people everywhere have the right to determine their own culture instead of having one imposed on them in the name of national or global solidarity, maintains that this right can become real only if people at the local community level gain the competence to control all external impact on their culture and thereby ...
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Participatory Culture and Democratic Culture

2018
This chapter examines how participatory culture in postwar Japan generates what the author terms “democratic culture,” a grassroots phenomenon shaped by diverse small groups or circles that foster creative expression, collective reflection, and social action. It explores how these circles—ranging from workplace clubs to literary salons—encourage public
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Cultural Perspectives in Participatory Ergonomics

Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting, 1987
This paper examines the generalizability of participatory ergonomics to different cultures. Studies using participatory strategies to introduce ergonomic solutions are reviewed across three distinct cultures. The results lead us to believe that these effects are sufficiently robust and not culture or method bound.
Andrew S. Imada, Michelle M. Robertson
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Cultural hybridity in participatory design

Proceedings of the 12th Participatory Design Conference: Exploratory Papers, Workshop Descriptions, Industry Cases - Volume 2, 2012
In this paper we examine challenges identified with participatory design research in the developing world and develop the postcolonial notion of cultural hybridity as a sensitizing concept. While participatory design intentionally addresses power relationships, its methodology does not to the same degree cover cultural power relationships, which extend
Samantha Merritt, Erik Stolterman
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