Videocracy : how YouTube is changing the world...with double rainbows, singing foxes, and other trends we can't stop watching /
Kevin Allocca.
- London : Bloomsbury, 2018.
- xv, 335 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A rousing and illuminating behind-the-scenes exploration of internet video's massive impact on our world. Whether your favorite YouTube video is a cat on a Roomba, 'Gangnam Style', the 'Bed Intruder' song, an ASAPscience explainer, Rebecca Black's 'Friday' or the 'Evolution of Dance', Kevin Allocca's 'Videocracy' reveals how these beloved videos and famous trends - and many more - came to be and why they mean more than you might think.
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YouTube (Electronic resource)
Internet videos--Social aspects. Information society. Popular culture. Media Studies.