02192 a2200361 4500 1351716409 20250317111606.0 250312042018GB eng 9781351716406 Taylor & Francis GBP 40.99 BB 01 eng JBCT thema ATFX thema NH thema JBCC1 thema JHB thema JFD bic APFX bic H bic JFCA bic JHB bic PER004000 bisac COM071000 bisac PER004010 bisac SOC052000 bisac John Hondros Ecologies of Internet Video Beyond YouTube 1 Oxford Routledge 20180524 164 p This 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. 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. 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. 4551 4551