An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube
Presented at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008. This was tons of fun to present. I decided to forgo the PowerPoint and instead worked with students to prepare over 40 minutes of video for the 55 minute presentation. This is the result.
more info: http://mediatedcultures.net
0:00 Introduction, YouTube's Big Numbers
2:00 Numa Numa and the Celebration of Webcams
5:53 The Machine is Us/ing Us and the New Mediascape
12:16 Introducing our Research Team
12:56 Who is on YouTube?
13:25 What's on Youtube? Charlie Bit My Finger, Soulja Boy, etc.
17:04 5% of vids are personal vlogs addressed to the YouTube community, Why?
17:30 YouTube in context. The loss of community and "networked individualism" (Wellman)
18:41 Cultural Inversion: individualism and community
19:15 Understanding new forms of community through Participant Observation
21:18 YouTube as a medium for community
(visit on YouTube for full list of timeline
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Comment by Alnisa Allgood on August 18, 2008 at 5:55am - Here's more on the issue of context collapse: http://snipurl.com/3hcju by Dr. Wesch.
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Comment by Alnisa Allgood on August 18, 2008 at 4:58am
- This video is actually 55min long, but goes really quickly. The speaker and topic are interesting.
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