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Reviewing as Post-Institutional Cultural Production

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This chapter constructs the theoretical context for examining reviewing in different institutional and non-institutional environments, drawing on sociology of arts, media studies and consumer studies. The chapter presents the model of cultural mediation, elaborating it further into models of cultural intermediation, characteristic of institutional forms of reviewing, and cultural mediation, typical of non-institutional forms of reviewing. The chapter concludes by addressing platformized cultural production that illuminates the post-institutional condition of cultural production.

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Jaakkola, M. (2022). Reviewing as Post-Institutional Cultural Production. In: Reviewing Culture Online. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84848-4_3

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