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://... 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 32:35Free 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 LonelyGirl15 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://... 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).
thank you Prof.mwesch, you provided a very good subject matter for research, I'am studying in UK from Malaysia in Film studies. It is very interesting just by this post you voluntarily became my lecture, that plays a part in my education. great insights
Singingbelle27(November 18, 2008 at 3:45 am)
Wow That was awesome.I do think an anthropological point can be made regarding people like myself who do not own a video camera of any kind, and are meerly watchers and 'favorite'ers, forced to reply only in the 'text comments' box... A purer YouTube audience? Just my thoughts :)
levilisko(November 17, 2008 at 12:55 am)
really insightful video
jobortszz(November 16, 2008 at 9:46 pm)
holy shit this is the longest video in youtube awesome
prodigy00073(November 16, 2008 at 8:52 am)
Im doing an assignment on this video :)
MuggleSam(November 16, 2008 at 2:06 am)
Amazing! I feel like doing the Numa Numa dance now :)
jagaarj(November 15, 2008 at 7:45 pm)
I'm from Mongolia. That was great presentation. I'm gonna prepare presentation like this at my school Mongolian Computer science management school. Thk you very much. Dr.wesch
bienbuon(November 15, 2008 at 7:25 pm)
Excellent Presentation
yellowdot01(November 14, 2008 at 11:47 pm)
There will be a day when history is made faster then we can preceed it! well, that day as came. F. Loyd Wright as predicted a sistems of villages in a great net. WRight on!But you're completly right, de sistem and amplitude of relations IS changing.Good luck in your findings!
Melwood89(November 14, 2008 at 11:43 pm)
this was really long
funnyafghanwedding(November 13, 2008 at 10:11 pm)
hey quick question, this is for anthropology
but how do you guys think youtube, specifically the comment area is significant to the youtube experience
i mean do you anticipate reading other ppl's comments? or getting into discussion?
fatskinnyy(November 13, 2008 at 4:34 pm)
this is an amazing piece of work thanks to Dr Wesch and the other students for all the hard work put into making this. i've learnt so much :)
