Thanks for Watching : An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube

YouTube hosts one billion visitors monthly and sees more than 400 hours of video uploaded every minute. In "Thanks for Watching," Patricia Lange offers an anthropological perspective on this heavily mediated social environment, demonstrating how core concepts from anthropology-participant-...

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Main Author: Lange, Patricia (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: United States University Press of Colorado 20191101
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