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100 1 0 _aGayraud, Agnès
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700 1 0 _a Heuguet, Guillaume
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245 0 0 _aFrom the music industry to the rhetoric of “service.” YouTube: A critical description
260 _c2015.
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520 _aLaunched in 2005, YouTube has contributed to redefining the uses and values of music in the general context of its digitization. Considered as a threat to a music industry that is dependent on physical formats and controlling channels of communication, the site has made possible an unprecedented democratization of “content”: instead of an all-encompassing cultural industry, we now have a personalized “service.” Nevertheless, in both its own rhetoric and the way the platform is used, YouTube perpetuates old mass media logics and appears to reconstitute, in its own terms, the pre-existing competitive market. The question thus arises: does YouTube spell the end of the cultural industry, or is it pursuing the old logics in the disguise of “digital disruption”? This article attempts to provide an answer by putting YouTube into perspective with a semiotic analysis and tools derived from critical theory.
690 _aYouTube
690 _aCultural Industry
690 _aWeb Economics
690 _aPopular Music
690 _aCritical Theory
690 _aService
690 _aUser-generated content
786 0 _nCommunication & langages | o 184 | 2 | 2015-06-01 | p. 101-119 | 0336-1500
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-communication-et-langages1-2015-2-page-101?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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