In the book, the authors analyze videos to find out how
YouTube is being used by audiences, traditional media users, amateur users, and
other communities. They use this analysis to challenge existing ideas about the
uses of YouTube for production and consumption in today’s culture.
Overall, Burgess and Green make some very interesting points
and they use plenty of data and outside sources to back up their ideas. They
also do an excellent job of referring back to points made earlier in the book
to tie it all together.
If I had to make one criticism for this book it would be:
the book is very condensed. This is nice because it makes it a short read, but
overall it is detrimental because on several occasions I got bogged down while
reading. Also, on a few occasions they seemed to refer to another work by name
as though they were expecting the reader to have already read that piece.
You might think that my analysis is quite lengthy for a book
that only has 140 pages; however, the book is so dense, so thorough, and makes
such a wide variety of points that to do it any kind of justice, an analysis
cannot be brief. Though this analysis is quite long, I still will only touch on
approximately ½ of the book’s content.
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