The construction of the user in the audiovisual culture of YouTube

This article presents an initial mapping of the ways in which the user is constructed on YouTube and raises questions that are problems of knowledge for contemporary studies on image and audiovisual content on the web. Over its ten years of existence, the platform constructed its users associated to...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor: Montaño, Sonia
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2017
País:Brasil
Recursos:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repositório:Revista FAMECOS: Mídia cultura e tecnologia
Idioma:português
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/25256
Acesso em linha:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/revistafamecos/article/view/25256
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:User
Video platforms
YouTube
Usuario
plataformas de video
Métodos de investigación en comunicación
Usuário
Plataformas de vídeo
Metodologias de pesquisa em Comunicação
Descrição
Resumo:This article presents an initial mapping of the ways in which the user is constructed on YouTube and raises questions that are problems of knowledge for contemporary studies on image and audiovisual content on the web. Over its ten years of existence, the platform constructed its users associated to several meanings, valuing his amateur status, or, more recently, that of the creator, developer and entrepreneur with audiovisual content as the center of this entire process. These relationships are discussed in dialogue with authors such as Benjamin and Certeau, who discuss the place of the technique in culture and in the relationships between production and consumption, besides ownership and use in everyday life. The contradictions between a user programmed by the interface and a user who reprogrammed demonstrates a transitional and complex technical stage. It is therefore an important stage for audiovisual and communication studies.