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(2016) The digital transformation of the public sphere, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Youtube, migrant rappers and the early cinema aesthetics
is there a digital public sphere?
Giacomo Nencioni
pp. 383-402
Giacomo Nencioni examines migrant rappers on YouTube and finds that YouTube appears as an environment with a specific type of public sphere, based on a balance between nineteenth-century forms of entertainment and twentieth-century culture industry features. YouTube is a place in transformation, probably still in search of a stable identity and legitimation in the mediasphere, a prominent example of the remediation phase the media are going through and, above all, the birthplace of a new hybrid kind of public sphere that we must interpret and relate to.
Publication details
DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-50456-2_19
Full citation:
Nencioni, G. (2016)., Youtube, migrant rappers and the early cinema aesthetics: is there a digital public sphere?, in A. Karatzogianni, D. Nguyen & E. Serafinelli (eds.), The digital transformation of the public sphere, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 383-402.
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