From jdhondros at gmail.com  Fri Jun 15 16:31:06 2018
From: jdhondros at gmail.com (John Hondros)
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 15:31:06 +0100
Subject: <videovortex> Ecologies of Internet Video: Beyond YouTube (new book)
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Dear colleagues,

Some of you may be interested in my newly published book, Ecologies of Internet Video: Beyond YouTube, which is part of Routledge?s Research in Cultural and Media Studies series.

The book explores the complex, dynamic, and contested webs of relationships in which three different groups of video makers found themselves when distributing their work on the Internet. It draws upon both the Deleuzian notion of "assemblage" and Actor-Network Theory, which together provide a rich conceptual framework for characterizing and analysing these webs. The groups examined are a UK video activist project, a community of film and television fans originating in the US, and an association of US community television producers.

Rather than taking YouTube as its point of departure, this book centres on the groups themselves, contextualizing their contemporary distribution practices within their pre-Internet histories. It then follows the groups as they drew upon various Internet technologies beyond YouTube to create their often-complex video distribution assemblages, a process that entangled them in these webs of relationships.

Through the analysis of detailed ethnographic fieldwork conducted across a period of several years, this book demonstrates that while the groups found some success in achieving their various goals as video makers, their situations were often problematic and their agency limited, with their practices contested by both human and technological actors within their distribution assemblages.

More information on the book is available here: https://www.routledge.com/Ecologies-of-Internet-Video-Beyond-YouTube/Hondros/p/book/9781138895560 <https://www.routledge.com/Ecologies-of-Internet-Video-Beyond-YouTube/Hondros/p/book/9781138895560>


Dr John Hondros
School of Media, Film and Music
University of Sussex



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From geert at xs4all.nl  Thu Jun 21 14:53:48 2018
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:53:48 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> =?utf-8?q?Just_Out=3AVideoblogging_Before_YouTube_b?=
 =?utf-8?q?y_Trine_Bj=C3=B8rkmann_Berry?=
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Dear Video Vortex members,

the Institute of Network Cultures is proud to present Videoblogging Before YouTube by Trine Bj?rkmann Berry, Theory on Demand #27. The book is available in pdf, epub, and print-on-demand here: http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-27-videoblogging-before-youtube/ <http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-27-videoblogging-before-youtube/>
An important hallmark in the research into online video, Videoblogging Before YouTube offers a cultural history of online video, focusing on the critical moment when the internet moved from being a mostly textual medium to a truly multimedia one. Through a close analysis of the early videoblogging community and their creative practices, Trine Bj?rkmann Berry argues that early in the new millennium a new cultural-technical media hybrid emerged. which created innovative media forms that have been highly influential on YouTube and other audio-visual media forms such as film and television. Through an ethnographically-informed approach to the cultural history of the videoblogging community, the book examines their practices, which were mostly small-scale, self-funded and bottom-up, and truly experimental. The aesthetic, technical form and content of short-form digital film was an important predecessor to, and anticipator of, our current media ecology.

Trine Bj?rkmann Berry is a writer and academic whose research is at the intersection of film theory, digital media and digital vernaculars, with particular emphasis on video and the internet. Bj?rkmann Berry is a visiting researcher at the University of Sussex. She publishes on online video, digital culture and aesthetics. Her new research examines the history and practices of the video essay.

Cover design: Katja van Stiphout. Design: Rosie Underwood. EPUB development: Rosie Underwood. Print on Demand. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2018. ISBN: 978-94-92302-22-9.

Published under a Creative Commons license; download your free copy here or order a print edition via Lulu: http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-27-videoblogging-before-youtube/ <http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-27-videoblogging-before-youtube/>.



 
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From Michael at Strangelove.com  Thu Jun 21 15:07:35 2018
From: Michael at Strangelove.com (Dr. Strangelove)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:07:35 -0400
Subject: <videovortex> 
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Awesome book!

The first time I downloaded a video from the Internet was 1994. A clip 
of an animation, a spaceship! The details are documented in my How to 
Advertise on the Internet text (1994).

Ahh, the heady days of Usenet newsgroups ucb.digital-video, 
comp.multimedia, an alt.binaries.multimedia. Also MBONE video 
conferencing in 1994 at the blistering speed of 15 frames per second.

michael


On 21/06/2018 8:53 AM, Geert Lovink wrote:
>
> Dear Video Vortex members,
>
> /the Institute of Network Cultures is proud to present Videoblogging 
> Before YouTube/?by Trine Bj?rkmann Berry, *Theory on Demand #27.*?The 
> book is available in pdf, epub, and print-on-demand here: 
> http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-27-videoblogging-before-youtube/
>
> An important hallmark in the research into online video, 
> /Videoblogging Before YouTube/?offers a cultural history of online 
> video, focusing on the critical moment when the internet moved from 
> being a mostly textual medium to a truly multimedia one. Through a 
> close analysis of the early videoblogging community and their creative 
> practices, Trine Bj?rkmann Berry argues that early in the new 
> millennium a new cultural-technical media hybrid emerged. which 
> created innovative media forms that have been highly influential on 
> YouTube and other audio-visual media forms such as film and 
> television. Through an ethnographically-informed approach to the 
> cultural history of the videoblogging community, the book examines 
> their practices, which were mostly small-scale, self-funded and 
> bottom-up, and truly experimental. The aesthetic, technical form and 
> content?of short-form digital film was an important predecessor to, 
> and anticipator of, our current media ecology.
>
> Trine Bj?rkmann Berry is a writer and academic whose?research is at 
> the intersection of film theory, digital media and digital 
> vernaculars, with particular emphasis on video and the 
> internet.?Bj?rkmann?Berry is a visiting researcher at the University 
> of Sussex. She publishes on online video, digital culture and 
> aesthetics. Her new research examines the history and practices of the 
> video essay.
>
> Cover design: Katja van Stiphout. Design: Rosie Underwood. EPUB 
> development: Rosie Underwood. Print on Demand. Publisher: Institute of 
> Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2018. ISBN: 978-94-92302-22-9.
>
> Published under a Creative Commons license; download your free copy 
> here or order a print edition via Lulu: 
> http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-27-videoblogging-before-youtube/.
>
>
>
>
>
> -----
>
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> artist responses to youtube
>
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From meta.abhishek at gmail.com  Thu Jun 21 17:19:42 2018
From: meta.abhishek at gmail.com (Abhishek Chauhan)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 20:49:42 +0530
Subject: <videovortex> 
	=?utf-8?q?Just_Out=3AVideoblogging_Before_YouTube_?=
	=?utf-8?q?by_Trine_Bj=C3=B8rkmann_Berry?=
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Hello,
Thanks for the book.

It is interesting to observe how the media evolution in time forays like
evolution of organisms barging away from bottom-up approach to Top down
control. From bottom up of micro cellulars systems to the top down of human
nervous systems. The past need to be renewed with modern vigour in the age
of youtube where fledging off content and deleting them at will of the
controllers of media take place because of being in a centralised platform
like 'youtube'. It is insightful to learn from the histories of media in
sense to be judgemental about whether the development is positive or
negative in varied sense. I have still just skimmed through text as is the
motif of studying in information laden world, looking forward to get more
from it. The nostalgia though with which this has been written should in my
view be providable more than to create an archive of it but in hopes that
it also creates a remixing and renewal of new forms of centralised video
distribution by reviewing from perspectives of past of our becomings.


Abhishek--




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On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 6:37 PM, Dr. Strangelove <Michael at strangelove.com>
wrote:

> Awesome book!
>
> The first time I downloaded a video from the Internet was 1994. A clip of
> an animation, a spaceship! The details are documented in my How to
> Advertise on the Internet text (1994).
>
> Ahh, the heady days of Usenet newsgroups ucb.digital-video,
> comp.multimedia, an alt.binaries.multimedia. Also MBONE video conferencing
> in 1994 at the blistering speed of 15 frames per second.
>
> michael
>
> On 21/06/2018 8:53 AM, Geert Lovink wrote:
>
> Dear Video Vortex members,
>
> *the Institute of Network Cultures is proud to present Videoblogging
> Before YouTube* by Trine Bj?rkmann Berry, *Theory on Demand #27.* The
> book is available in pdf, epub, and print-on-demand here:
> http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-27-
> videoblogging-before-youtube/
>
> An important hallmark in the research into online video, *Videoblogging
> Before YouTube* offers a cultural history of online video, focusing on
> the critical moment when the internet moved from being a mostly textual
> medium to a truly multimedia one. Through a close analysis of the early
> videoblogging community and their creative practices, Trine Bj?rkmann Berry
> argues that early in the new millennium a new cultural-technical media
> hybrid emerged. which created innovative media forms that have been
> highly influential on YouTube and other audio-visual media forms such as
> film and television. Through an ethnographically-informed approach to the
> cultural history of the videoblogging community, the book examines their
> practices, which were mostly small-scale, self-funded and bottom-up, and
> truly experimental. The aesthetic, technical form and content of short-form
> digital film was an important predecessor to, and anticipator of, our
> current media ecology.
>
> Trine Bj?rkmann Berry is a writer and academic whose research is at the
> intersection of film theory, digital media and digital vernaculars, with
> particular emphasis on video and the internet. Bj?rkmann Berry is a
> visiting researcher at the University of Sussex. She publishes on online
> video, digital culture and aesthetics. Her new research examines the
> history and practices of the video essay.
>
> Cover design: Katja van Stiphout. Design: Rosie Underwood. EPUB
> development: Rosie Underwood. Print on Demand. Publisher: Institute of
> Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2018. ISBN: 978-94-92302-22-9.
>
> Published under a Creative Commons license; download your free copy here
> or order a print edition via Lulu: http://networkcultures.
> org/blog/publication/tod-27-videoblogging-before-youtube/.
>
>
>
>
>
> -----
>
> video vortex discussion list
> artist responses to youtube
>
> to change your settings or unsubscribe, please go to: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/videovortex_listcultures.org
>
>
>
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>
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> http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/videovortex_listcultures.org
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From geert at xs4all.nl  Sun Jun 24 22:29:56 2018
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 22:29:56 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> PeerTube: a Censorship Resistente YouTube Alternative
Message-ID: <A228DAD1-41EC-4217-B515-4A95AAD4DC87@xs4all.nl>

https://torrentfreak.com/peertube-a-censorship-resistent-youtube-alternative-180623/ <https://torrentfreak.com/peertube-a-censorship-resistent-youtube-alternative-180623/>


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From geert at xs4all.nl  Thu Jun 28 11:52:02 2018
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 11:52:02 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> introducing peertube
Message-ID: <2A3EB12A-8491-47E1-AF19-087EA4B3FF60@xs4all.nl>

Take back control of your videos: a decentralized video hosting network, based on free/libre software
https://joinpeertube.org/en/ <https://joinpeertube.org/en/>

PeerTube is software that you install on a web server. It allows you to create a video hosting website, so create your "homemade YouTube".
The difference to YouTube is that it's not intended to create a huge platform centralizing videos from the whole world on a single server farm (which is horribly expensive).

On the contrary, PeerTube's concept is to create a network of multiple small interconnected video hosting providers.     

 
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