Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube book launch

At the Fear It? Fix It! (FIFI) conference in Amsterdam

28 nov 2008
28 nov 2008

The Video Vortex Reader is the first collection of critical texts to deal with the rapidly emerging world of online video – from its explosive rise in 2005 with YouTube, to its future as a significant form of personal media.

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With contributions by: Tilman Baumgärtel, Jean Burgess, Dominick Chen, Sarah Cook, Sean Cubitt, Stefaan Decostere, Thomas Elsaesser, David Garcia, Alexandra Juhasz, Nelli Kambouri and Pavlos Hatzopoulos, Minke Kampman, Seth Keen, Sarah Késenne, Marsha Kinder, Patricia Lange, Elizabeth Losh, Geert Lovink, Andrew Lowenthal, Lev Manovich, Adrian Miles, Matthew Mitchem, Sabine Niederer, Ana Peraica, Birgit Richard, Keith Sanborn, Florian Schneider, Tom Sherman, Jan Simons, Thomas Thiel, Vera Tollmann, Andreas Treske, Peter Westenberg.

What: Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube Book Launch
When: Friday 28th of November at 17h00
Where: Machinegebouw, Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam
Free entrance from 16h45 on to attend the launch

Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer (eds.), Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2008.
ISBN: 978-90-78146-05-6. The reader was supported by the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, School of Design and Communication, and XS4ALL.

Order a free copy by emailing: books@networkcultures.org or download the pdf at
the Networkcultures website

More information:
[networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/publications/inc-readers/videovortex/
www.fifi2008.nl/?page_id=31 on the Networkcultures site].