Patricia G Lange
Biographic Data
| ID | 209570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia G Lange |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia G |
| FAMILY NAME | Lange |
| SIGNATURE | LANGE P G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3110-8949 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 155 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Disenchantment and Re-Enchantment of YouTube Vlogging
Introduction The video blog (vlog) has been a staple for YouTube since its inception. Diary-like vlogs depict an individual facing the camera speaking straight to the viewer about personal experiences, thoughts, and feelings (Raun) as well as sharing everyday life (Lange, Kids; Kennedy “These”). Vlogs propelled YouTube into a participatory culture-driven media era (Jenkins; Burgess and Green; Strangelove). Notably, the context for creating and di…
Mobility and Migration Online
This paper examines the #TwitterMigration discourse following Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter (renamed X) through an anthropological lens on migration and mobility. Drawing parallels between physical migration and online movement, the study highlights how individuals and communities negotiated whether to stay or leave, shared "social remittances" such as advice and tools, and relied on networks to sustain social capital across platforms. Situa…
Ranting in emotional public spheres
Ranting has a bad reputation. But is it always deserved? Online ranting has been alternatively decried for its emotion-laden hostility and praised as a beloved video genre. By exploring a qualitative corpus of YouTube rant videos, this article analyzes how problem-centric rants may serve as forms of proto civic engagement. The article shows that problem-centric rants contribute to emotional public spheres, in which emotions and logic combine to p…
Typing your way to technical identity
Informal, online environments facilitate creative self-expression through typographic and orthographic stylistics. Yet, ideologies of writing may be invoked to discourage written forms that are purportedly difficult to read. This paper analyzes how members of an online, text-based, gaming community negotiate appropriate, written communications as expressions of technical identity. These encounters may reify communities of technologists who are as…
The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology
Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology
Conceptualizing communities of truth on YouTube
Commentary on YouTube has been characterized as a ‘cesspool’. Yet, participants with divergent opinions do post comments to exchange ideas and share information. This study analyses comments posted to a video about YouTube community to investigate the site’s potential for knowledge exploration. The study analyses whether commentary dynamics exhibit those found in prior scholars’ rubric of a community of truth . This model rejects hierarchical for…
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out
Thanks for Watching
I wish to thank all the people of YouTube who participated in my ethnographic research project and who contributed videos that provided insight on sharing the self through media.I would like to express my special thanks to OhCurt for making me feel welcome to YouTube and encouraging me to keep the camera rolling.Special thanks also to robtran, whose commentary about community and its limits provided crucial insight about our increasingly posthuma…
Sharing in the digital era
The Accidental Celebrity
Vlogging Toward Digital Literacy
The author traces her journey into the exotic, early world of video blogging, in which participants used video to share the self, develop empathy for others, and exchange knowledge. Moving from modest video blogs to an internationally-screened film demonstrated in a direct way that under the right circumstances participatory cultures work. Peer-to-peer mentorship and connected learning can open new forms of digital and participatory literacies in…
Commenting on YouTube rants
Doing it yourself with others
The Breakup 2.0
Video-mediated nostalgia and the aesthetics of technical competencies
Certain binaries have dominated scholarly approaches to research on digital video creation. The first is concerned with comparing videos made by professionals versus amateurs. The second is the binary contrasting the use of images for memory preservation versus sharing experiences and negotiating identities. The present case study of teen video makers on YouTube illustrates how youth in the United States may approach their video making in more fl…
Learning Real-Life Lessons From Online Games
Games have received increased scholarly attention due to the economic value they generate. Yet, some studies still conceptualize games as ''virtual'' realms that are theoretically distinct from ''real world'' experiences. Based on an ethnographic investigation of two online, text-based gaming environments, this study analyzes dynamics such as technical acculturation, access to technical knowledge, and opportunities for self-expression by studying…
Living and Learning with New Media
This report summarizes the results of an ambitious three-year ethnographic study, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, into how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings—at home, in after school programs, and in online spaces. It offers a condensed version of a longer treatment provided in the book Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (MIT Press, 2009). The authors present empirical dat…
Living and Learning with New Media
Living and Learning with New Media
Social network sites, online games, video-sharing sites, and gadgets such as iPods and mobile phones are now fixtures of youth culture. They have so permeated young lives that it is hard to believe that less than a decade ago these technologies barely existed. Today’s youth may be coming of age and struggling for autonomy and identity as did their predecessors, but they are doing so amid new worlds for communication, friendship, play, and self-ex…
Conversational Morality and Information Circulation
Technologists often support the idea that knowledge exchange is best achieved by engaging in debate that does not involve moral considerations. Such a position is difficult to achieve given that technical choices are often morally laden. Indeed, many supporters of the Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) movement use specific technologies because of the moral benefits of F/OSS and the ethical concerns about using alternative proprietary technolo…
An implicature for um
Many scholars characterize um as an involuntary emission that is devoid of meaning. Other scholars classify um as a non-linguistic signal that conveys certain messages or resolves a conversational problem, such as determining next speaker. Um is often assumed to signal `powerless language' because it displays speaker uncertainty. Yet an examination of real-time, written conversation in two online communities shows that participants sometimes use …
Interruptions and Intertasking in Distributed Knowledge Work
I analyze ethnographic practices in a distributed, on-line research project. Through self-reflexive investigation of interactions with family and interviewees, I discuss challenges that I faced when doing distributed work from home and I problematize assumed benefits of "multitasking" and "flexible" home-based work. By examining remote work (such as interviewing people on-line), I show that "multitasking" inaccurately describes certain work proce…
Publicly Private and Privately Public
YouTube is a public video-sharing website where people can experience varying degrees of engagement with videos, ranging from casual viewing to sharing videos in order to maintain social relationships. Based on a one-year ethnographic project, this article analyzes how YouTube participants developed and maintained social networks by manipulating physical and interpretive access to their videos. The analysis reveals how circulating and sharing vid…
Single Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication. Heather A. Horst and Daniel Miller
Publicly Private and Privately Public
YouTube is a public video-sharing website where people can experience varying degrees of engagement with videos, ranging from casual viewing to sharing videos in order to maintain social relationships. Based on a one-year ethnographic project, this article analyzes how YouTube participants developed and maintained social networks by manipulating physical and interpretive access to their videos. The analysis reveals how circulating and sharing vid…
Commenting on YouTube rants
Thanks for Watching
I wish to thank all the people of YouTube who participated in my ethnographic research project and who contributed videos that provided insight on sharing the self through media.I would like to express my special thanks to OhCurt for making me feel welcome to YouTube and encouraging me to keep the camera rolling.Special thanks also to robtran, whose commentary about community and its limits provided crucial insight about our increasingly posthuma…
The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology
Video-mediated nostalgia and the aesthetics of technical competencies
Certain binaries have dominated scholarly approaches to research on digital video creation. The first is concerned with comparing videos made by professionals versus amateurs. The second is the binary contrasting the use of images for memory preservation versus sharing experiences and negotiating identities. The present case study of teen video makers on YouTube illustrates how youth in the United States may approach their video making in more fl…
Searching for the ‘You’ in ‘YouTube
Enthusiasm for adding sociality to Web sites is mounting. Yet, the YouTube experience shows that participation in social networking sites is complex and potentially contentious. Meaningful participation in part depends upon participants' ability to respond to others and contribute to a site. While some participants demand more active involvement from administrators to create a safe and encouraging environment, others view intensive regulation as …
Interruptions and Intertasking in Distributed Knowledge Work
I analyze ethnographic practices in a distributed, on-line research project. Through self-reflexive investigation of interactions with family and interviewees, I discuss challenges that I faced when doing distributed work from home and I problematize assumed benefits of "multitasking" and "flexible" home-based work. By examining remote work (such as interviewing people on-line), I show that "multitasking" inaccurately describes certain work proce…
Conceptualizing communities of truth on YouTube
Commentary on YouTube has been characterized as a ‘cesspool’. Yet, participants with divergent opinions do post comments to exchange ideas and share information. This study analyses comments posted to a video about YouTube community to investigate the site’s potential for knowledge exploration. The study analyses whether commentary dynamics exhibit those found in prior scholars’ rubric of a community of truth . This model rejects hierarchical for…
Sharing in the digital era
Doing it yourself with others
Learning Real-Life Lessons From Online Games
Games have received increased scholarly attention due to the economic value they generate. Yet, some studies still conceptualize games as ''virtual'' realms that are theoretically distinct from ''real world'' experiences. Based on an ethnographic investigation of two online, text-based gaming environments, this study analyzes dynamics such as technical acculturation, access to technical knowledge, and opportunities for self-expression by studying…
Covert Mentoring on the Internet
Many technologists rely on informal mentoring conducted in social circles that lie outside of their immediate workplace. One crucial mentoring method involves answering questions, which may help novices solve problems, master technical skills, and learn proper social behavior. Yet, asking and answering questions can mark the questioner and/or respondent as lacking knowledge or competence. Questioners and respondents may address these vulnerabilit…
What is your claim to flame
Flaming studies often argue that the assumed paucity of social cues in online environments leads to disinhibition and increased flaming online. Other studies empirically challenge the idea that flaming behaviors are an inevitable by–product of computer–mediated communication. Nevertheless, both camps share the view that a category of social phenomena called “flaming” exists and it is possible to determine what constitutes a “flame” by examining m…
Publicly Private and Privately Public
YouTube is a public video-sharing website where people can experience varying degrees of engagement with videos, ranging from casual viewing to sharing videos in order to maintain social relationships. Based on a one-year ethnographic project, this article analyzes how YouTube participants developed and maintained social networks by manipulating physical and interpretive access to their videos. The analysis reveals how circulating and sharing vid…
Single Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication. Heather A. Horst and Daniel Miller
Searching for the ‘You’ in ‘YouTube
Enthusiasm for adding sociality to Web sites is mounting. Yet, the YouTube experience shows that participation in social networking sites is complex and potentially contentious. Meaningful participation in part depends upon participants' ability to respond to others and contribute to a site. While some participants demand more active involvement from administrators to create a safe and encouraging environment, others view intensive regulation as …
An implicature for um
Many scholars characterize um as an involuntary emission that is devoid of meaning. Other scholars classify um as a non-linguistic signal that conveys certain messages or resolves a conversational problem, such as determining next speaker. Um is often assumed to signal `powerless language' because it displays speaker uncertainty. Yet an examination of real-time, written conversation in two online communities shows that participants sometimes use …
Interruptions and Intertasking in Distributed Knowledge Work
I analyze ethnographic practices in a distributed, on-line research project. Through self-reflexive investigation of interactions with family and interviewees, I discuss challenges that I faced when doing distributed work from home and I problematize assumed benefits of "multitasking" and "flexible" home-based work. By examining remote work (such as interviewing people on-line), I show that "multitasking" inaccurately describes certain work proce…
Living and Learning with New Media
This report summarizes the results of an ambitious three-year ethnographic study, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, into how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings—at home, in after school programs, and in online spaces. It offers a condensed version of a longer treatment provided in the book Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (MIT Press, 2009). The authors present empirical dat…
Living and Learning with New Media
Living and Learning with New Media
Social network sites, online games, video-sharing sites, and gadgets such as iPods and mobile phones are now fixtures of youth culture. They have so permeated young lives that it is hard to believe that less than a decade ago these technologies barely existed. Today’s youth may be coming of age and struggling for autonomy and identity as did their predecessors, but they are doing so amid new worlds for communication, friendship, play, and self-ex…
Conversational Morality and Information Circulation
Technologists often support the idea that knowledge exchange is best achieved by engaging in debate that does not involve moral considerations. Such a position is difficult to achieve given that technical choices are often morally laden. Indeed, many supporters of the Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) movement use specific technologies because of the moral benefits of F/OSS and the ethical concerns about using alternative proprietary technolo…
Video-mediated nostalgia and the aesthetics of technical competencies
Certain binaries have dominated scholarly approaches to research on digital video creation. The first is concerned with comparing videos made by professionals versus amateurs. The second is the binary contrasting the use of images for memory preservation versus sharing experiences and negotiating identities. The present case study of teen video makers on YouTube illustrates how youth in the United States may approach their video making in more fl…
Learning Real-Life Lessons From Online Games
Games have received increased scholarly attention due to the economic value they generate. Yet, some studies still conceptualize games as ''virtual'' realms that are theoretically distinct from ''real world'' experiences. Based on an ethnographic investigation of two online, text-based gaming environments, this study analyzes dynamics such as technical acculturation, access to technical knowledge, and opportunities for self-expression by studying…
Doing it yourself with others
The Breakup 2.0
Commenting on YouTube rants
Vlogging Toward Digital Literacy
The author traces her journey into the exotic, early world of video blogging, in which participants used video to share the self, develop empathy for others, and exchange knowledge. Moving from modest video blogs to an internationally-screened film demonstrated in a direct way that under the right circumstances participatory cultures work. Peer-to-peer mentorship and connected learning can open new forms of digital and participatory literacies in…
The Accidental Celebrity
Sharing in the digital era
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out
Thanks for Watching
I wish to thank all the people of YouTube who participated in my ethnographic research project and who contributed videos that provided insight on sharing the self through media.I would like to express my special thanks to OhCurt for making me feel welcome to YouTube and encouraging me to keep the camera rolling.Special thanks also to robtran, whose commentary about community and its limits provided crucial insight about our increasingly posthuma…
Conceptualizing communities of truth on YouTube
Commentary on YouTube has been characterized as a ‘cesspool’. Yet, participants with divergent opinions do post comments to exchange ideas and share information. This study analyses comments posted to a video about YouTube community to investigate the site’s potential for knowledge exploration. The study analyses whether commentary dynamics exhibit those found in prior scholars’ rubric of a community of truth . This model rejects hierarchical for…
Typing your way to technical identity
Informal, online environments facilitate creative self-expression through typographic and orthographic stylistics. Yet, ideologies of writing may be invoked to discourage written forms that are purportedly difficult to read. This paper analyzes how members of an online, text-based, gaming community negotiate appropriate, written communications as expressions of technical identity. These encounters may reify communities of technologists who are as…
The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology
Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology
Computer Science (22 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Social Media and Politics (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Ethnography (7 works) · Internet privacy (7 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Digital Games and Media (6 works)