The Institute of Network Cultures proudly presents its fourth reader:
Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube. 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 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. After years of talk about digital convergence
and crossmedia platforms we now witness the merger of the Internet and
television at a pace no-one predicted. These contributions from
scholars, artists and curators evolved from the first two Video Vortex
conferences in Brussels and Amsterdam in 2007 which focused on
responses to YouTube, and address key issues around independent
production and distribution of online video content. What does this
new distribution platform mean for artists and activists? What are the
alternatives?

Contributors:
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.

Colophon:
Editors: Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer. Editorial Assistance:
Marije van Eck and Margreet Riphagen. Copy Editing: Darshana
Jayemanne. Design: Katja van Stiphout. Printer: Veenman Drukkers,
Rotterdam. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam.
Supported by: Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA)/School of
Design and Communication (IAM), and XS4ALL.

More information:
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/publications/inc-readers/videovortex/
Download a pdf at:
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/files/2008/10/vv_reader_small.pdf