An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube!...x

0:00 Introduction, YouTube's Big Numbers


> 1948 .. abc was introduced

> 9232 hours/day

> 385 always-on TV channels

> 200,000 3 minute videos ( not mass media)

> 88% new and original content



2:00 Numa Numa And the celebration of Webcams...x

> Created year 2004 December

5.53 The Machine Is Us/ing Us and The New Mediascape

> He started with text on paper and what it means not just about people, about linking people in new ways, every 6 months there is new way. * When we change,media change.*

12:16 Introducing Our Research Team

> 10 undergraduated students, data uploading, studentts can take nites and upload at any time.

12:56 Who is on Youtube.

> Over 50% of youtube viewers are aged between teenage and 34.

13:25 Whats on youtube? Charlie bit my finger, Soulja Boy etc.

> 92 year old playing piano
> most commonly uploaded are home videos
> viewed over 30 million times
> 15% are remakes of the video

17:04 5% of vids are personal blogs addressed to the Youtube community, Why?

> the loss of community over time.

17:30 YouTube in context. The loss of community and "networked individualism" (Wellman)

> Less free time
> Isolation

18:41 Cultural Inversion: individualism and community

> Express: individualism, independant, commercilisation
> Value: Community, relationships, authenticy

19:15 Understanding new forms of community through Participant Observation

> the core of our methodology, have to understand it to experience it.

21:18 YouTube as a medium for community

> build community through webcams

23:00 Our first blogs

> people basically fiml themselves and put their videos on the net, they edit and retake to make it look perfect; hair, type of shot.

25:00 The webcam: Everybody is watching where nobody is ("context collapse")

> The way we look and pose and remake oursevles for a webcam trying to be somebody else when nobody is there, when in actual fact the whole world can see you.

26:05 Re-cognition and new forms of self-awareness (McLuhan)

> Everybody and anybody may be looking at you, including yourself.

27:58 The Anonymity of Watching YouTube: Haters and Lovers

> " Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred".

> Lev Grossman
- time magazine, dec 13th 2006

29:53 Aesthetic Arrest

> people are overwhelmed with what they have infornt of them, so they just sit cultural tension.
- craving connection

30:25 Connection without Constraint

> People are connecting through YouTube.
- Media do not just distance us
- they connect us in different ways
- but sometimes brings us closer together.