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How sharing, linking, and liking have transformed the media and marketing industries Spreadable Media is a rare inside look at today's ever-changing media landscape. The days of corporate control over media content and its distribution have been replaced by the age of what the digital media industries have called user-generated content. Spreadable Media maps these fundamental changes, and gives readers a comprehensive look into the rise of participatory culture, from internet memes to presidential tweets. The authors challenge our notions of what goes viral and how by examining factors such as the nature of audience engagement and the environment of participation, and by contrasting the concepts of stickiness -aggregating attention in centralized places-with spreadability -dispersing content widely through both formal and informal networks. The former has often been the measure of media success in the online world, but the latter describes the actual ways content travels through social media. The book explores the internal tensions businesses face as they adapt to this new, spreadable, communication reality and argues for the need to shift from hearing to listening in corporate culture. Now with a new afterword addressing changes in the media industry, audience participation, and political reporting, and drawing on modern examples from online activism campaigns, film, music, television, advertising, and social media-from both the US and around the world-the authors illustrate the contours of our current media environment. For all of us who actively create and share content, Spreadable Media provides a clear understanding of how people are spreading ideas and the implications these activities have for business, politics, and everyday life, both on- and offline.Product Identifiers
PublisherNew York University Press
ISBN-139781479856053
eBay Product ID (ePID)2317587913
Product Key Features
Number of Pages352 Pages
Publication NameSpreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture
LanguageEnglish
SubjectLaw
Publication Year2018
TypeTextbook
AuthorSam Ford, Henry Jenkins, Joshua Green
SeriesPostmillennial Pop
Dimensions
Item Height229 mm
Item Weight508 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorSam Ford, Joshua Green, Henry Jenkins