Amateur Media

<p>The rise of Web 2.0 has pushed the amateur to the forefront of public discourse public policy and media scholarship. Typically non-salaried non-specialist and untrained in media production amateur producers are now seen as key drivers of the creative economy.</p> <p></p> <p>This edited collection provides a much-needed interdisciplinary contextualisation of amateur media before and after Web 2.0. Surveying the institutional economic and legal construction of the amateur media producer via a series of case studies it features contributions from experts in the fields of law economics media studies and literary studies based in the US and Australia.</p>