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YouTube, Migrant Rappers and the Early Cinema Aesthetics: Is There a Digital Public Sphere?

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Giacomo Nencioni examines migrant rappers on YouTube and finds that YouTube appears as an environment with a specific type of public sphere, based on a balance between nineteenth-century forms of entertainment and twentieth-century culture industry features. YouTube is a place in transformation, probably still in search of a stable identity and legitimation in the mediasphere, a prominent example of the remediation phase the media are going through and, above all, the birthplace of a new hybrid kind of public sphere that we must interpret and relate to.

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  1. University for Foreigners of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

    Giacomo Nencioni

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  1. University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

    Athina Karatzogianni

  2. University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Dennis Nguyen

  3. University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Elisa Serafinelli

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Nencioni, G. (2016). YouTube, Migrant Rappers and the Early Cinema Aesthetics: Is There a Digital Public Sphere?. In: Karatzogianni, A., Nguyen, D., Serafinelli, E. (eds) The Digital Transformation of the Public Sphere. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50456-2_19

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