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Read More: Circling Jenkins 2: Boobs and BytesIn the same Learning from YouTube class where two students presented their fake documentary about convergence culture and The Hills (see video, True Life: I’m addicited to ‘The Hills’ on-line…
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Read More: Pushing around Henry Jenkins: YouTube Criticism as Cynical CirclingSo, I’ve been teaching the second Learning from YouTube class this fall. The more normal one. The one with books. And lately, we’ve been reading Henry Jenkins’ Convergence Culture, after…
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Read More: Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube (free!)
Video Vortex about the book: The Video Vortex Reader is the first collection of critical texts to deal with the rapidly emerging world of online video – from its explosive…
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Read More: Beyond Visibility/Learning from GhanaI am recently returned from the OurMedia7 conference in Ghana, a loose network of international academics, activists, and professionals working in social justice/development/NGOs who have met seven times, annually, to…
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Read More: Learning from FredIn my ongoing life as minor YouTube pundit, I’ve been asked to reflect on the phenomena that is Fred for Teacher’s College Record. Given that I had not seen the…
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Read More: I am having digi-fun writing “The Me & the WE”What’s great about the job (when you’re lucky), is that you have to write something (an adaptation of my MP:me Manifesto and the “talk” I gave about it a few…
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Read More: Life Off-Line: Hungary
I’ve just returned from a holiday in Eastern Europe, where access to the internet was made complicated not for reasons technological (fully post-Soviet, they’re completely wired) but familial. There was…
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Read More: YouTube Specificity/HistoryMy previous two posts point towards a new phase in my blogging, my digital life, where I’m beginning to find my niche, locate my cohort, engage in “conversations,” make new…
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Read More: Here’s Him & Him? & Her? (happy to meet you): Talking Blog-Montage“For better or worse, we can expect YouTube and online amateur video to become a common tool for the 25% of American women who have been sexually assaulted.” Dr. Strangelove,…
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Read More: I’m Glad I Found Her: On Loving the Blogosphere“And the next time someone quotes the Cult of the Amateur to you, about how social media is ruining culture, nod wisely and agree: user generated content is user generated…