Thursday, 9 October 2008

AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION TO YOUTUBE

2:00 Numa Numa and the Celebration of Webcams.=> created year 2004 december
5:53 The Machine is Us/ing Us and the New Mediascape=> He started with text on paper and what it means not just about people, about linking people in new ways, every 6 months there is new way. when we change, media change.
12:16 Introducing our Research Team=> 10 undergraduate students, data uploading, students can take notes and upload at any time.
12:56 Who is on YouTube?=> Over 50% of youtube viewers are aged between teenage and 34. 13:25 What's on Youtube? Charlie Bit My Finger, Soulja Boy, etc. => 92 year old playing piano most commonly uploaded are home videos. viewed over 30 million times. redone over 2000 times 15% are remakes of the video.
17:04 5% of vids are personal blogs addressed to the YouTube community, Why?=> the loss od community over time
17:30 YouTube in context. The loss of community and "networked individualism" (Wellman)=> less free time isolation
18:41 Cultural Inversion: individualism and community=> express: individualism, independant, commercialisationvalue: community, relationships, authenticy
19:15 Understanding new forms of community through Participant Observation=> the core of our methodology, have to understand it to exerience it.
21:18 YouTube as a medium for community=> build community through webcams
23:00 Our first blogs=> people basically film themselves and put their videos on the net, they edit and retake to make it look perfect; hair, type of shot etc.
25:00 The webcam: Everybody is watching where nobody is ("context collapse")=> The way that we look and pose and remake ourselves for a webcam trying to be somebody else when nobody is there, when in actual fact the whole world can see you.
26:05 Re-cognition and new forms of self-awareness (McLuhan)=> everybody and anybody may be looking at you, including yourself.
27:58 The Anonymity of Watching YouTube: Haters and Lovers=> " some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred." - Lev Grossman - time magazine. dec 13th 2006.
29:53 Aesthetic Arrest => people are overwhelmed with what they have infront of them, so they just sit cultural tension. craving connection.
30:25 Connection without Constraint=> people are connecting through youtube.media do not just distance us,they connect us in different ways,but sometimes that distance.

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