Tuesday 11 November 2008

An Anthroplogical Veiw On YouTube. . .

In 1948 ABC was produced, however YouTube had formed more hours of programming in six months than ABC's full 60 year run. . .

. . . YouTube produces 9232 hours a day, in-contrast to the 385 on TV channels

200,000 of the videos last 3 minutes. . .

. . .88% is original content

Numa Numa and webcams:
The founder established the song from a viral video

An estimated number for the amount of view times for the video is around 600,000,000

Machine is using us:

Every 6 months there is a tool which connects with us in a new way. As we change so does the media

The actual music is a source from Africa, and it was first shown on digg.com

The video was number one and within months it was translated into 12 different languages, which allowed a huge number of people to interact with it

Research team:
10 undergraduate students who take notes on videos and upload videos

Who is on YouTube?
Over 25% of videos have someone 35 or over. This is very similar to teenagers

What is on YouTube?
The most common videos on YouTube are home videos e.g. Charlie bit my finger. these videos have been viewed over 30 million times and redone over 2000 times

15% of all YouTube videos are remakes or remixes of existing videos

5% of all videos are personal V-logs addressed to the YouTube community, why? the loss of community over time

10,000 of the 20,000 videos a day are addressed to the YouTube community

YouTube as a community
No-one really knows who they are taking to

First V-log:

Each are repeated once

The webcam: Everybody is watching were nobody is:

Feels like the most private place but actually is the most public

Re-cognition and new forms of self-awareness:

Whatever you post you know that someone will eventually see it

The Anonymity of Watching YouTube:
Haters and Lovers:
You are anonymous so no one knows who is watching

Aesthetic Arrest:
People can carry on with what they want, while they are watching a video

The public are allowed to express themselves without having to worry about the norms they have to follow within society

Connection without constraints:
Judging on how a person wants to connect, YouTube offers that sort of connection

Free hugs: A hero for our medicated culture:

300,00,000 views

Copied into hundreds of videos

YouTube- Striving for popularity
In order to be seen by viewers, you have to do something unique and unordinary

You need to catch the editor's attention, if you want to appear on the feature page

An early star: emokid21ohio
This was a fake in 2006

YouTube's Authenticity Crisis: The story of lonelygirl15
Viewers suspected she was a fake, which turned out to be true, as she was made up by 3 writers. This was actually a soap opera

Reflections on Authenticity:
Viewers don't fully trust YouTube

Serious playful participatory media culture
You never will know were the camera will be and if the video was to be uploaded on YouTube

Networked Production:
The collab. "The Message" and the message of YouTube
persons remain anonymous

the most responded video, is on YouTube

Poem: The little glass dot, the eyes of the world
The Little Glass Dot is Wesch's poem; it talks about the webcam being the eyes to the world

Conclusion by bnessel1973
Many people believe that the videos on YouTube are produced for the hopes to change the world

YouTube brought him life again, as it became a from of therapy or remedy and it allowed him to act how he wanted to feel

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