Livestreaming
An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter
Livestreaming is ubiquitous in our Covid-19-inflected era. In this book, EL Putnam takes up the implications of this technology, arguing that livestreamed internet broadcasts perform aesthetic and ethical encounters that invite distinctive means of relating to others. Treating humans and technologies as inherently relational, Putnam considers how livestreaming constitutes new patterns of being together that are complex, ambivalent, and transformative. Understood in such a way, we see how livestreaming exceeds quantifying and calculating metrics, challenges emphasis on content generation, and introduces an entirely new—and dynamic—means of social engagement.
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- isbn978-1-4529-7162-9
- issn2373-5074
- publisherUniversity of Minnesota Press
- publisher placeMinneapolis, MN
- restrictionsPlease see the Creative Commons website for details about the restrictions associated with the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
- rightsLivestreaming: An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter by EL Putnam is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
- rights holderEL Putnam
- series number67
- series title
- doi
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