<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>Dear colleagues,<br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font>Some of you may be interested in my newly published book, <i class="">Ecologies of Internet Video: Beyond YouTube,</i> which is part of Routledge’s Research in Cultural and Media Studies series.<br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font>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.<br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font>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.<br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font>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.<br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font>More information on the book is available here: <a href="https://www.routledge.com/Ecologies-of-Internet-Video-Beyond-YouTube/Hondros/p/book/9781138895560" class="">https://www.routledge.com/Ecologies-of-Internet-Video-Beyond-YouTube/Hondros/p/book/9781138895560</a><br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></font>Dr John Hondros<br class="">School of Media, Film and Music<br class="">University of Sussex<br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font><div class="">
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