Getting Noticed, Showing-Off, Being Overheard
Amateurs, Authors and Artists Inventing and Reinventing Themselves in Online Communities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5947993 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Faulkner, Jay Melican |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 2007 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51-65 |
| Publication date | 2007-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings (CONFERENCE) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1559-890X • E-ISSN: 1559-8918 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1559-8918.2007.tb00062.x |
| OpenAlex | W1996304112 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
This paper reports early findings of an ethnographically-inspired research project focused on individuals who are actively engaged in the creation and online distribution of original media - on blogs, vlogs, and social networking sites - and on the collectives that form around "user-generated content." In this paper, we profile a small number of creative individuals producing original content in four very different cultural contexts: a children's book author in Los Angeles, a pair of video bloggers in New York, an ex-pat journalist and social commentator in Dubai, and a cosmetics expert sharing advice with an online community in Seoul, South Korea. We explore what motivates each "lead user" to create; we examine how they imagine themselves as authors and artists, and how they imagine (and interact with) their readers and viewers. In addition, we explain how the insights they provide into an emerging form of online authorship are relevant to Intel Corporation's Digital Home Group
Art · Content (measure theory · Corporation · Digital media · Media studies · Online community · Political science · Social media · Sociology · Visual arts · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Social Media and Politics
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |