Video Cultures

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. In the Frame: Mapping Camcorder Cultures

   • Rebekah Willett

   Pages 1-22

3. A Commonplace Art? Understanding Amateur Media Production

   • David Buckingham

   Pages 23-50

4. ‘Take back the tube!’: The Discursive Construction of Amateur Film- and Video-Making

   • David Buckingham, Maria Pini, Rebekah Willett

   Pages 51-70

5. Inside the Home Mode

   • Maria Pini

   Pages 71-92

6. Speaking Back? In Search of the Citizen Journalist

   • David Buckingham

   Pages 93-114

7. Parodic Practices: Amateur Spoofs on Video-Sharing Sites

   • Rebekah Willett

   Pages 115-132

8. Skate Perception: Self-Representation, Identity and Visual Style in a Youth Subculture

   • David Buckingham

   Pages 133-151

9. Handing Over Control? Access, ‘ordinary people’ and Video Nation

   • Jo Henderson

   Pages 152-171

10. In the Bedroom: Sex on Video

    • Maria Pini

    Pages 172-190

11. The Hidden World of Organised Amateur Film-Making

    • Daniel Cuzner

    Pages 191-209

12. Always on: Camera Phones, Video Production and Identity

    • Rebekah Willett

    Pages 210-229

13. Power to the People? The Past and Future of Amateur Video

    • David Buckingham

    Pages 230-238

14. Back Matter

    Pages 239-241

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Over the past decade, there has been a huge increase in ordinary people's access to video production technology. These essays explore the theoretical significance of this trend and its impact on society, as well as examining a wide range of case studies, from camcorders and camera phones to YouTube and citizen journalism.

• identity
• society
• technology
• video

• Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and the Media, Institute of Education, University of London, UK

  David Buckingham

• Institute of Education, University of London, UK

  Rebekah Willett

David Buckingham is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, London University, UK, where he directs the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media. His previous books include Children Talking Television (1993), Moving Images (1996), The Making of Citizens (2000), After the Death of Childhood (2000) and Media Education (2003).

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