ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores the various amateur media practices and examples dating from the early 1900s to the mid-2010s. It discusses the case studies which have been interpreted through the lens of a media historian and of a visual anthropologist. Multiple theories have been tested to encompass the survey of past and contemporary amateur media cultures – all viewed as expressions of specific social, cultural, political and psychological frameworks. The book offers a kaleidoscopic yet detailed overview of key historic, theoretic and technological developments in this cross-disciplinary field of studies. It examines the process of visual priming evident across old and new amateur media practices, including the online daily streaming of videos, by way of re-interpreting potential counter-histories. The book offers a kaleidoscopic yet detailed overview of key historic, theoretic and technological developments in the cross-disciplinary field of studies.
