MUSIC, SOCIAL MEDIA AND GLOBAL MOBILITY by Ole J. Mjos ( 9780415882743 )

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MUSIC, SOCIAL MEDIA AND GLOBAL MOBILITY
MYSPACE, FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE

By:

Ole J. Mjos

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Hardback

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0415882745

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9780415882743

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

22 December, 2011

Series:

Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

Pages:

192

Synopsis:

This book is about the relationship between media, communication and globalization, explored through the unique empirical study of electronic music practitioners' use of the global social media: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. To understand the significance of the emerging nexus between social media and music in a global context, the book explores various aspects of production, distribution and consumption among electronic music practitioners as they engage with global social media, as well as a historical, political and economic exposition of the rise of this global social media environment. Drawing on interview-based research with electronic music artists, DJs, producers and managers, together with the historical portrayal of the emergence of global social media this pioneering study aims to capture a development taking place in music culture within the wider transformations of the media and communications landscape; from analogue to digital, from national to global, and from a largely passive to more active media use. In doing so, it explores the emergence of a media and communications ecology with increased mobility, velocity and uncertainty.The numerous competing, and rapidly growing and fading social media exemplify the vitality and volatility of the transforming global media, communication and cultural landscape. This study suggests that the music practitioner's relationship with MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter and the key characteristics of these global social media, alter aspects of our practical and theoretical understandings of the process of media globalization. The book deploys an interdisciplinary approach to media globalization that takes into account and articulates this relationship, and reflects the enduring power equations and wider continuities and changes within the global media and communications sphere.

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22 black & white illustrations, 21 black & white tables, 1 black & white

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