web 2.0
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Read More: YouTube Thoughts apres Console-ing Passions
Just back from the Console-ing Passions conference, where I attended a panel on blogging where people joked that people might blog on the conference and the panel. Well. Melissa Click…
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Read More: On Upper-Crass Video and the Washington PostYesterday I got a query from a journalist at the Washington Post. Did she want my opinions on AIDS video or feminist media history? No! Hillary v Obama (Obama, duh)……
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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: 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 #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…
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Read More: Reflections on Building TOUR #1
As I built the fist tour, on education, I was working from an outline I had created for a talk (which will, in fact, be the tour) that I am…
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Read More: YouTube Tour #1: Education
Today, I posted my first “tour” of the work and lessons-learned by the Learning from YouTube class. I will try to post one per week, with accompanying blogs, for the…
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Read More: YouTube, Popularity, Inanity, Fun!
So, after the class decided to study “popularity” on YouTube–my students making an end-run on my best intentions for the course (which were to hi-jack YouTube to make it work…