UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY - DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
PERFECTURE OF THESSALY
International Conference:
Folk/Traditional/Popular Culture and the Internet
Volos, 6-7 November 2013
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Abstracts
- Christos Papakostas (Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών)
Dance and/in Youtube. Representations and Practices
It is a commonly held assumption that the new technologies and the internet particular have changed dramatically human society, culture and communication. New phenomena appear and the new reality is a challenge on many levels. The mass expansion of the Internet, since the early 1990s, has brought new circumstances at the economic, social and cultural level, as well as new forms of behaviour and expression. One major challenge of humanities and social sciences, is to investigate the appearance, projection, processing, creation, transmission and broadcasting of forms and manifestations of the performing arts (music, dance) via the Internet, such as: blogs, websites, e-mails and, most recently, the so-called social media, such as facebook, twitter, myspace, et al. One such Internet platform is YouTube, a new technological site which is distinguished by ambivalent, abstract and vague dimensions. Thus, the presentation aims to contribute to the study of youtube as a new digital field of dance and musical performances. For this reason, we examine the new phenomenon that appears through the transmission, broadcasting, commentary and production on YouTube of amateur videos whose basic subject is folk performing arts (music and dance).
