[rohrpost] Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube

Krystian Woznicki kw at berlinergazette.de
Fre Nov 21 15:13:21 CET 2008


Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube book launch at FIFI

Book Launch Friday the 28th of November at the Fear It? Fix It! (FIFI)
conference in Amsterdam (Westergasterrein), by Geert Lovink.

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.

With contributions by: Tilman Baumg?rtel, 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 K?senne, 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 at networkcultures.org or download
the pdf at
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/files/2008/10/vv_reader_small.pdf


More information:
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/publications/inc-readers/videovortex/
http://www.fifi2008.nl/?page_id=31