The becoming of ideal audience workers : game modders and distributive websites.

• Main Author: Hong, Renyi.
• Other Authors: Chen Hsueh-hua
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication::Cultural studies
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48039
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The proliferation of participative media technologies in the last decade had transformed the paradigms of traditional media production. The newfound celebratory freedom for audiences to be media producers is balanced by fears of an exploitative labour situation: an apprehension that participatory pr...