David Gauntlett
David Gauntlett is a media theorist who was born on March 15th 1971. He used to do work that focused on modern media audiences and now he is focused on the everyday sharing and making of social media and digital media.
David Gauntlett went to the University of York to study Sociology and graduated in 1992, after graduating he then went and started teaching in 1993 at the University of Leeds until 2002. He then got established as a Professor of Media and Audiences at the Bournemouth University. A few years later he then started at the University of Westminster.
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David Gauntlett wrote a book and called it Media studies 2.0. This is that audiences can become producers just through the social media. So this is things such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. On YouTube you can post a video and get subscribers, anyone can read and write on the comments this means not always are they complimenting the videos, some people will write things to be nasty as they think it is funny. If you want to give your opinion without writing anything you can like or dislike the video.
From YouTube you can share the videos on to other social media sites. this is done through either copying and pasting the url link or there is a few options with which site to share it on so you can just click on one of them.
