An anthropological introduction to YouTube

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You may have heard last week — maybe not on Twitter — that a recent study found that 40% of Twitter tweets are “pointless babble.” According to the study, conversational messages account for 32% of tweets, and tweets with pass-along value scored a whopping 6%. Close behind, were tweets of shameless self-promotion. [...]
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Really interesting video I first encountered in first year Sociology at UBC - I've watched it a couple times. It makes you think about the "mediascape" out there and how everything is so interconnected. YouTube, Blogger, Twitter - all these online spaces and more have had an impact on social interaction within our society, and the scale on which this is happening is profound.
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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.
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Here is a fascinating presentation by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. Michael gave a talk at the Library of Congress about YouTube and its role in the participatory culture. He explains how one of his videos, Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us, became very popular in [...]
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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...
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