Title

Periscope, Live-Streaming and Mobile Video Culture

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2016

Publication Title

Theory on Demand: Geoblocking and Global Video Culture

Volume

18

First page number:

64

Last page number:

73

Abstract

As a mobile video sharing infrastructure based on the individual, yet utilizing global smartphone platforms, Periscope challenges broadcast logics of content production and circulation. The intimacy of the app, combined with its immediacy, also fosters new types of live video content, potentially reinvigorating mobile journalism and crisis reporting.

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