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Or what about TV shows that draw on crafting cultures? (food TV, especially in the USA is fascinating here). I love the passivity of some TV shows because they free me to knit in front of them (just knitting on its own doesn’t catch my attention enough). Or at least that I we should be careful of putting them up against each other in terms of making. I wondered at times whether this shift is over-stating in the book. People who watched British television at a certain point in the late 20th century may remember a show called Why Don't You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go Out and Do Something Less Boring Instead. One of the key frames of the book is a shift from the passivity of the ‘sit back’ model of what might come to be seen as the odd mid to late 20th century era of the television and towards a culture dominated by ideas of making and doing. Because, this process of going off and doing something yourself is a lot of what the book is about. And that’s why Making is Connecting might be ‘slow reading’. Along the way, I also found stuff other people had made to consume and take part in too. Some of this I did myself, some of it collaboratively. I knitted, I cooked, I wrote, I gave lectures and organised events. I stop consuming whatever other people have made – in this case Gauntlett’s book – and go and produce something for myself.
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Still, in a way, it is a book that inspires slow reading, because one of the many reasons why it took me so long to finish (why it takes me so long to finish most books, unless I make myself sit and read them in a go, or even watch a movie or er… finish this sentence) is that I get distracted. For a piece of social sciences, it’s incredibly well written. This isn’t because it’s a hard read, or boring. It has, however, taken me a while to actually finish reading the book and post this review. As any seasoned media studies scholar will grump at you, all media is social, but with this thing we call web 2.0 the patterns of sociability are changing (Gauntlett has made a lovely vid on this) in ways which are wrapped up in the history of crafting. It's about the social meanings of creativity and 21st century maker cultures, be these makers of blogs, woolly cardigans, cupcakes, podcasts or physics-themed lolcats, and in particular the changing structures of making which surround what is sometimes called ‘social media’. It's an interesting book worth talking about.
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I've mentioned David Gauntlett's new book, Making is Connecting, a few times recently: on my work blog, my knitting one, and on the Guardian's Notes and Theories.