David Gauntlett's Ideas

In Gauntlett's video lecture "Media and Everyday Life" he suggests 'maybe we're entering an era where the pleasure of making things is having a resurgence?"


This means there was a time in the past when people enjoyed making things and actively did so, e.g. baking and making clothes. But then as the age of consumerism took effect people became more passive and didn't make things as much as in the past. But then Gauntlett suggests that thanks to the creation of web 2.0 making things has become more popular again in the modern age. An example to illustrate this point is the thousand of Frozen parodies people have made and put on YouTube. As the screenshot below shows there are over 12 million results!!

Here's one example, supporting Gauntlett's hypothesis that more people are now making things thanks to web 2.0: