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The research reported in this book was conducted between 2005 and 2008 — a period that might in retrospect come to be seen as a point of transition in the evolution of contemporary media. When we first planned the research, YouTube did not exist. As we write, in late 2008, the number of videos on the site is rapidly approaching 100 million.
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Buckingham, D. (2009). Power to the People? The Past and Future of Amateur Video. In: Buckingham, D., Willett, R. (eds) Video Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230244696_12
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