YouTube
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Read More: Losing Community in the Video Archive: My Final Tour
At last the tours are through! While I found them increasingly tedious, they did prove a useful exercise in that I made some sense of the hundreds of videos my…
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Read More: The Owner/User Dialectic: TOUR #5The user is told she is free, but this is not the case. Nowhere near it. She makes work in forms that best serve the master’s (oops) owner’s needs. Her…
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Read More: I Look to Third-TubeTo wrap up this thread of ideas coming from my bad manifesto videos, I’d like to try to better attend to “Third-Tube,” that manner of video, currently available on the…
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Read More: I Invite you to Flee, in search of our own material[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmFgVhsoiqs] I have been thinking about the badness of this set of videos. About how when I make conventional vlogs, I never worry about form, and that’s liberating: YouTube as…
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Read More: I Call for the Death of Cinematography[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Eno4Rk7Xqc]
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Read More: I Proclaim the stuff of YouTube to be LeprousI turned the manifesta I wrote for these pages (2007-08-27) into 7 YouTube videos about YouTube as part of an experiment I am trying for this year’s SCMS (Society for…
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Read More: Bad Video: From meaning to feeling, YouTube Tour #4
In my Tour #4, The Vernacular, Visual and the Vlog, I propose that there are two dominant forms of video YouTube: the vlog, characterized by its poor quality and vox…
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Read More: TOUR #3: PopularityI posted my third tour today–on popularity–so, yes another tour, but this is the first where I wore a paper-crown and prom dress… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-XuCRO1Ecw&rel=1] I guess you can see, I’m…
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Read More: TOUR #2, Entertainment: Humor, Spectacle, Self-ReferentialityI posted my second tour today, on entertainment on YouTube. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIaxxxECszE&rel=1] (note the goofy performance: trying to be lively…YouTube entertainment does rely on quality performance) This was the first thing…
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Read More: Beginning Thoughts on the Six Binaries indicated in TOUR #1
Thinking through education on YouTube, after teaching a class using its many resources and even greater limitations, I found that the specificity of the site, and some of the features…