An alternative media experience: LiveLeak
3rd International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability: User Experience Design for Diverse Interaction Platforms and Environments, DUXU 2014, Held as Part of 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI Int. 2014, Heraklion, Yunanistan, 22 - 27 Haziran 2014, cilt.8518 LNCS, ss.62-70, (Tam Metin Bildiri)
- Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
- Cilt numarası: 8518 LNCS
- Doi Numarası: 10.1007/978-3-319-07626-3_6
- Basıldığı Şehir: Heraklion
- Basıldığı Ülke: Yunanistan
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.62-70
- Anahtar Kelimeler: LiveLeak, Rhizome, Social Networking
- Kırklareli Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This research examines a video sharing web site called LiveLeak to be able to analyze the possibilities of democratic and horizontal social mobilization via Internet technology. In this sense, we take into consideration the Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's philosophical conceptualization of "rhizome" which provides a new approach for activities of online communities. In the light of this concept and its anti-hierarchical approach we tried to discuss the potentials of network communication models such as LiveLeak in terms of emancipating use of media and democratic communication. By analyzing the contextual traffic on the LiveLeak for a randomly chosen one week (first week of December 2013) we argue that this video sharing web site shows a rhizomatic characteristic. © 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland.