Patricia G. Lange is an Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Recognised as an expert on ""YouTube"" and new media, she has been published in a wide variety of scholarly journals and contributed to the first edited volumes on ""YouTube"". She is a co-author of Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media (2010), and Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project (2009). She has also released the ethnographic film Hey Watch This! Sharing the Self Through Media (2013), a diachronic investigation of ""YouTube"" as a social media site. Lange is the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of The CASTAC Blog, the official blog of the American Anthropological Association's Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology and Computing.

• Acknowledgments, Chapter 1 Introduction: Ways With Video, Chapter 2 Video-Mediated Friendships: Specialization and Relational Expertise, Chapter 3 Girls Geeking Out on YouTube, Chapter 4 Mediated Civic Engagement, Chapter 5 Video-Mediated Lifestyles, Chapter 6 Representational Ideologies, Chapter 7 On Being Self-Taught, Chapter 8 Conclusion, Appendix Studying YouTube: An Ethnographic Approach, References, Index, About the Author

Patricia G. Lange is an Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Recognised as an expert on ""YouTube"" and new media, she has been published in a wide variety of scholarly journals and contributed to the first edited volumes on ""YouTube"". She is a co-author of Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media (2010), and Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project (2009). She has also released the ethnographic film Hey Watch This! Sharing the Self Through Media (2013), a diachronic investigation of ""YouTube"" as a social media site. Lange is the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of The CASTAC Blog, the official blog of the American Anthropological Association's Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology and Computing.

• Acknowledgments, Chapter 1 Introduction: Ways With Video, Chapter 2 Video-Mediated Friendships: Specialization and Relational Expertise, Chapter 3 Girls Geeking Out on YouTube, Chapter 4 Mediated Civic Engagement, Chapter 5 Video-Mediated Lifestyles, Chapter 6 Representational Ideologies, Chapter 7 On Being Self-Taught, Chapter 8 Conclusion, Appendix Studying YouTube: An Ethnographic Approach, References, Index, About the Author