| Title | An Anthropological Introduction to Youtube |
| Publication Type | Film |
| Year of Publication | 2008 |
| Authors | Wesch M |
| Publisher | YouTube |
| Keywords | anthropology, community, ethnography, YouTube |
| Abstract | 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
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| URL | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU&feature=youtube_gdata |
| Full Text |
- 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
- 23:00 Our first vlogs
- 25:00 The webcam: Everybody is watching where nobody is ("context collapse")
- 26:05 Re-cognition and new forms of self-awareness (McLuhan)
- 27:58 The Anonymity of Watching YouTube: Haters and Lovers
- 29:53 Aesthetic Arrest
- 30:25 Connection without Constraint
- 32:35 Free Hugs: A hero for our mediated culture
- 34:02 YouTube Drama: Striving for popularity
- 34:55 An early star: emokid21ohio
- 36:55 YouTube's Anthenticity Crisis: the story of LonelyGirl
- 15 39:50 Reflections on Authenticity
- 41:54 Gaming the system / Exposing the System
- 43:37 Seriously Playful Participatory Media Culture (featuring Us by blimvisible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yxHKgQyGx0
- 47:32 Networked Production: The Collab. MadV's "The Message" and the message of YouTube
- 49:29 Poem: The Little Glass Dot, The Eyes of the World
- 51:15 Conclusion by bnessel1973
- 52:50 Dedication and Credits (Our Numa Numa dance) The Numa Numa quote is from Douglas Wolk (not Gary Wolk as I mistakenly said in the talk).
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