John Hondros
University of Sussex, School of Media, Film and Music, Visiting Lecturer in Media and Communications
I am currently Lecturer in Digital Practice and Online Distance Learning in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex.
My previous primary affiliations were as Lecturer in Media and Communication at City, University of London, and as a visiting lecturer at the Communication and Media Research Institute, University of Westminster, where I completed my PhD (which was a new materialist analysis of amateur video makers' adoption of the Internet). Prior to this, I worked for 14 years in the digital media industry, specialising mostly in multi-platform television, where I held various senior roles. These included board director, interim senior vice president, executive producer and strategy consultant for organizations such as the BBC, FremantleMedia, MTV, Virgin Media, Sony Music, and Microsoft.
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The following is the abstract for my monograph Ecologies of Internet Video: Beyond YouTube.This book explores the complex, dynamic, and contested webs of relationships in which three different groups of video makers found themselves when distributing their work on the Internet. It draws upon both the Deleuzian notion of "assemblage" and Actor-Network Theory, which together provide a rich conceptual framework for characterizing and analysing these webs. The groups examined are a UK video activist project, a community of film and television fans originating in the US, and an association of US community television producers.Rather than taking YouTube as its point of departure, this book centres on the groups themselves, contextualizing their contemporary distribution practices within their pre-Internet histories. It then follows the groups as they drew upon various Internet technologies beyond YouTube to create their often-complex video distribution assemblages, a process that entangled them in these webs of relationships.Through the analysis of detailed ethnographic fieldwork conducted across a period of several years, this book demonstrates that while the groups found some success in achieving their various goals as video makers, their situations were often problematic and their agency limited, with their practices contested by both human and technological actors within their distribution assemblages.
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I hold a BA in philosophy and a BSc in physics, both from the University of Western Australia, where my honours thesis assessed interpretations of quantum theory from the perspective of scientific theory choice. I also hold an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London, and an MSc in organisational behaviour studied jointly at the University of Oxford and HEC, Paris where my thesis was on the human dimension of strategy implementation in the UK digital video industry. I also make observational films as part of senior management training programmes for London Business School and others.
My previous primary affiliations were as Lecturer in Media and Communication at City, University of London, and as a visiting lecturer at the Communication and Media Research Institute, University of Westminster, where I completed my PhD (which was a new materialist analysis of amateur video makers' adoption of the Internet). Prior to this, I worked for 14 years in the digital media industry, specialising mostly in multi-platform television, where I held various senior roles. These included board director, interim senior vice president, executive producer and strategy consultant for organizations such as the BBC, FremantleMedia, MTV, Virgin Media, Sony Music, and Microsoft.
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The following is the abstract for my monograph Ecologies of Internet Video: Beyond YouTube.This book explores the complex, dynamic, and contested webs of relationships in which three different groups of video makers found themselves when distributing their work on the Internet. It draws upon both the Deleuzian notion of "assemblage" and Actor-Network Theory, which together provide a rich conceptual framework for characterizing and analysing these webs. The groups examined are a UK video activist project, a community of film and television fans originating in the US, and an association of US community television producers.Rather than taking YouTube as its point of departure, this book centres on the groups themselves, contextualizing their contemporary distribution practices within their pre-Internet histories. It then follows the groups as they drew upon various Internet technologies beyond YouTube to create their often-complex video distribution assemblages, a process that entangled them in these webs of relationships.Through the analysis of detailed ethnographic fieldwork conducted across a period of several years, this book demonstrates that while the groups found some success in achieving their various goals as video makers, their situations were often problematic and their agency limited, with their practices contested by both human and technological actors within their distribution assemblages.
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I hold a BA in philosophy and a BSc in physics, both from the University of Western Australia, where my honours thesis assessed interpretations of quantum theory from the perspective of scientific theory choice. I also hold an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London, and an MSc in organisational behaviour studied jointly at the University of Oxford and HEC, Paris where my thesis was on the human dimension of strategy implementation in the UK digital video industry. I also make observational films as part of senior management training programmes for London Business School and others.
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Rather than taking YouTube as its point of departure, this book centres on the groups themselves, contextualizing their contemporary distribution practices within their pre-Internet histories. It then follows the groups as they drew upon various Internet technologies beyond YouTube to create their often-complex video distribution assemblages, a process that entangled them in these webs of relationships.
Through the analysis of detailed ethnographic fieldwork conducted across a period of several years, this book demonstrates that while the groups found some success in achieving their various goals as video makers, their situations were often problematic and their agency limited, with their practices contested by both human and technological actors within their distribution assemblages.
Rather than taking YouTube as its point of departure, this book centres on the groups themselves, contextualizing their contemporary distribution practices within their pre-Internet histories. It then follows the groups as they drew upon various Internet technologies beyond YouTube to create their often-complex video distribution assemblages, a process that entangled them in these webs of relationships.
Through the analysis of detailed ethnographic fieldwork conducted across a period of several years, this book demonstrates that while the groups found some success in achieving their various goals as video makers, their situations were often problematic and their agency limited, with their practices contested by both human and technological actors within their distribution assemblages.