<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><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=""><p class="">Dear Video Vortex members,</p><p class=""><em class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-style: normal;">the Institute of Network Cultures is proud to present </span><span lang="EN-US" class="">Videoblogging Before YouTube</span></em><span lang="EN-US" class=""> by Trine Bjørkmann Berry, <strong class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: normal;">Theory on Demand #27.</span></strong> The book is available in pdf, epub, and print-on-demand here: <a href="http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-27-videoblogging-before-youtube/" class="">http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-27-videoblogging-before-youtube/</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">An important hallmark in the research into online video, <em class="">Videoblogging Before YouTube</em> 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 Bjørkmann Berry argues that early in the new millennium a new cultural-technical media hybrid emerged. </span><span lang="EN-GB" class="">which created innovative media forms that have been highly influential on YouTube and other audio-visual media forms such as film and television</span><span lang="EN-US" class="">. </span><span lang="EN-GB" class="">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. </span><span lang="EN-US" class="">The aesthetic, technical form and content</span><span lang="EN-GB" class=""> of </span><span lang="EN-US" class="">short-form digital film was </span><span lang="EN-GB" class="">an important predecessor to, and anticipator of, our current media ecology.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">Trine Bjørkmann 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. Bjørkmann Berry </span><span lang="EN-US" class="">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.</span></p><p class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">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.</span></p><p class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Published under a Creative Commons license; download your free copy here or order a print edition via Lulu: <a href="http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-27-videoblogging-before-youtube/" class="">http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-27-videoblogging-before-youtube/</a>.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class=""><br class=""></p><div class=""><span lang="NL" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>