Patricia G. Lange, "Thanks for Watching: An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube"
English | ISBN: 1607329476 | 2019 | 362 pages | EPUB | 1263 KB
YouTube hosts one billion visitors monthly and sees more than 400 hours of video uploaded every minute. In her award winning book, Thanks for Watching, Patricia G. Lange offers an anthropological perspective on this heavily mediated social environment by analyzing videos and the emotions that motivate sharing them. She demonstrates how core concepts from anthropology-participant-observation, reciprocity, and community-apply to sociality on YouTube. Lange's book reconceptualizes and updates these concepts for video-sharing cultures.