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.net0:0... Introduction, YouTube's Big Numbers2:00 Numa Numa and the Celebration of Webcams5:53 The Machine is Us/ing Us and the New Mediascape12:16 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 community19:15 Understanding new forms of community through Participant Observation21:18 YouTube as a medium for community23:00 Our first vlogs25:00 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 Lovers29:53 Aesthetic Arrest30:25 Connection without Constraint32:35 Free Hugs: A hero for our mediated culture34:02 YouTube Drama: Striving for popularity34:55 An early star: emokid21ohio36:55 YouTube's Anthenticity Crisis: the story of LonelyGirl1539:50 Reflections on Authenticity41:54 Gaming the system / Exposing the System43:37 Seriously Playful Participatory Media Culture (featuring Us by blimvisible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... Networked Production: The Collab. MadV's "The Message" and the message of YouTube49:29 Poem: The Little Glass Dot, The Eyes of the World51:15 Conclusion by bnessel197352:50 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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