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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 ecomic 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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PublisherRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Ltd

ISBN-100415716209

ISBN-139780415716208

eBay Product ID (ePID)170020816

Product Key Features

Number of Pages192 Pages

Publication NameMusic, Social Media and Global Mobility : Myspace, Facebook, Youtube

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2013

SubjectCommunication & Media

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaComputers, Music, Social Science, Political Science

AuthorOle Mjos

SeriesRoutledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

FormatPaperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight12 Oz

Item Length6 in

Item Width9 in

Height229mm

Width152mm

Weight340g

Additional Product Features

Date of Publication09/07/2013

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Place of PublicationLondon

Spine10mm

Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom

GenreCommunication & Media

Author BiographyOle J. Mjos is Associate Professor at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway. He is the author of Media Globalization and the Discovery Channel Networks (Routledge, 2010). His previous practical experience in the media and creative industries includes work in television documentary production, and contributions on many records within the wide genre of electronic music.

Content Note22 Black & White Illustrations, 21 Black & White Tables, 1 Black & White Halftones