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Armed with cheap digital technologies and a fiercely independent spirit, millions of young people from around the world have taken cultural production into their own hands, crafting their own clothing lines, launching their own record labels, and forging a vast, collaborative network of impassioned amateurs more interested in making than consuming. DIY Style tells the story of this international do-it-yourself (DIY) movement through a major case study of one of its biggest, but least known contingents: the ""indie"" music and fashion scene of the predominantly Muslim Southeast Asian island nat

AbstractIn the era of social media and digital cameras, street photography, or the candid documentation of everyday life in public space, has seen a resurgence of interest worldwide. What draws people to the genre is its ability to transform the way they see and experience the spaces around them. Street photography, I argue here, is a mode of shadow worlding, a dynamic and collaborative place‐making practice in which the places being built are left deliberately inchoate and incomplete. Based on several weeks of participant observation among street photographers in two Indonesian cities, this article considers what happens when we begin to see and experience the way a street photographer does. I tell the story of several Indonesian street photographers, as well as describe my own experiences with street photography, to demonstrate the potential of the genre for reimagining and reworking our relationships with the cities we live in and the fieldsites we pass through.

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Street-style blogs have become a major Internet phenomenon in the last few years, luring millions of readers and documenting everyday fashion in diverse cities around the globe. But the Southeast Asian island nation of Indonesia, despite an abundance of other varieties of fashion blogs and a population with some of the highest percentages of social media use in the world, remains decidedly off the street style map. This photo essay seeks both to understand why and to begin filling in that gap. Through full-colour and black and white photographs taken by the author on a recent trip to Indonesia, along with reflections and thoughts inspired by the photographs, it investigates the vibrant and idiosyncratic expressions of style happening in Indonesia today. But it also questions the very qualification of these images as 'street style photographs.' Does street style have to happen on 'the streets', this essay asks, to be street style? For if so, Indonesia's urban model seems to preclude participation. And does 'cool,' that occult quality ascribed to the subjects of street style photographs, translate to an Indonesian context? This essay both adheres to, and calls into question, the conventions of street style photography to document the myriad meanings of 'style' and 'street' in contemporary Indonesia.

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Power and Style: A World History of Politics and Dress, Dominique Gaulme and Francois Gaulme (Trans. Deke Dusinberre) (2012) Paris: Flammarion, 288 pp., ISBN 9782080201355, Hardback, £ 28.86/$75
Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion, 28 April–18 August 2013, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
Shanghai Street Style, Toni Johnson-Woods and Vicki Karaminas (2013) Bristol: Intellect, 168 pp., ISBN 9781841505381, Paperback, £15.95/$25

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I Frameworks and Methods -- 1 Platform Studies -- 2 Productive Ambivalence, Economies of Visibility, and the Political Potential of Feminist YouTubers -- 3 Affect and Autoethnography in Social Media Research -- 4 A Semio- discursive Analysis of Spanish- Speaking BookTubers -- 5 Critical Media Industry Studies The Case of Chinese Livestreaming -- Part II Genres and Communities -- 6 Video Gameplay Commentary Immersive Research in Participatory Cu -- 7 Value, Service, and Precarity among Instagram Content Creators -- 8 Toy Unboxing Creator Communities -- 9 Beyond the Nation Cultural Regions in South Asia's Online Video Communities -- 10 Creativity and Dissent in Arab Creator Culture -- Part III Industries and Governance -- 11 Wanghong Liminal Chinese Creative Labor -- 12 Content Creators and the Field of Advertising -- 13 The Political Economy of Sponsored Content and Social Media Entertainment Production -- 14 Creator Rights and Governance -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Index