META Om Pelle Snickars ENG
Pelle Snickars works as Head of Research at the National Library of Sweden. He is also an Assistant Professor at the Department of Cinema Studies, Stockholm University. Snickars’ has published numerous books on various aspect of media history as well as new media.
Recent books
Moving Data. The iPhone and the Future of Media, (eds.) Pelle Snickars & Patrick Vonderau (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012) – read the introduction here – or download it.
The YouTube Reader, (eds.) Pelle Snickars & Patrick Vonderau (Stockholm: KB, 2009) – download the book.
Submitted articles
“Himalaya of Data”, forthcoming in (preliminary title) WikiLeaks. A Reader (ed.) Christian Christenssen (New York: Peter Lang, 2012) – download a first draft.
“Against Search—Towards A New Computational Logic of Media Accessibility”, forthcoming in Blackwell Companion to New Media Dynamics (eds.) John Hartley, Jean Burgess & Axel Bruns (London: Blackwell, 2012) – download a first draft.
Recently published articles
“A Walled Garden Turned Into a Rain Forest”, Moving Data. The iPhone and the Future of Media, (eds.) Pelle Snickars & Patrick Vonderau (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012) – download a first draft.
“If Content Is King, Context Is Its Crown”, Critical Studies in European Television no. 1, 2012 – article can be found here.