"distraction" results 1 - 16
YOUTUBE USES ITS USERS
... " Play the pair of videos at the same time for some real distraction ...
YouTube Tour #2, Entertainment: Humor, Spectacle, Self-Referentiality (February 14, 2008)
... )The entertainment of YouTube creates a postmodern TV of distraction, where discrete bites of cinema controlled and seen by the discrete eye of one viewer are linked intuitively, randomly, or through systems of popularity, in an endless chain of immediate but forgettable gratification that can only be satisfied by another video ... ... I imagine that this must inevitably lead to two unpleasant, if still entertaining, outcomes: distraction puts an end to action, and surface fun drowns out depth ... ... However, even the most moving of videos needs to be connected to something (other than another short video)— people, community, ideas, other videos to which it has a coherent link—if it is to create action over distraction, knowledge instead of free-floating info-zaps ...
YOUTUBE IS A POMO TV
... On our private postmodern TV of distraction, discrete bites of cinema are controlled by the discrete eye of each viewer, linked intuitively or through systems of popularity into an endless chain of immediate but forgettable gratification that can only be satisfied by another video ...
YOUTUBE IS A PLATFORM FOR PARENTHETICAL PLEASURES
... YouTube videos primarily replay, refer to, deconstruct and reconstruct mainstream media or other distractions or parentheses from daily life: kittens, comedians, clips already aired ...
YOUTUBE FORECLOSES COMMUNITY
... Even the most moving of videos needs to be connected to something (other than another short video)—people, community, ideas, other videos to which it has a predictably coherent link—if it is to create what community does best: action over distraction, knowledge instead of free-floating ideas, connection over the quick link ...
Video Dada (February 1, 2010)
... Furthermore, Dada suitably organizes the cacophony and distraction of undifferentiated material—"all the objects in the [YouTube] archive have equal weight ...
Q&A #2 with Henry Jenkins (February 20, 2008)
... In what way did this media coverage distort or simplify your goals as a teacher? What advice might you offer to other educators who found themselves caught up in a similar media storm? AJ: The mainstream media attention served as a huge distraction and energy-drain for the course, while also being highly informative about one of the main functionalities of YouTube: popularity/celebrity ...
On YouTube (October 10, 2007)
... What a failure! And it's YouTube's fault! The comments function on the site is neither real-time or synchronous (like a chat room) nor fully outside time or asynchronous (like email), which creates a sort of deadening clunk when you post: it'll come up soon, but who knows when or who will read it? Also, given that the site is organized around distraction and a bonanza of moving-image riches always at your fingertips and dancing on the edge of the screen but outside your control, there was no way to be certain anyone from the class was looking at any of the eight videos we were attending to at any particular time, which left me feeling isolated, even as I knew they were (most likely) there ...
On Publishing My YouTube "Book" Online (September 24, 2009)
... Harder to command amid the distractions ...
MORALLY DANGEROUS AND CONTAGIOUS
... They promote distraction, consumption, and inaction ...
Media Consumption During the COVID-19 Lockdown by Kamaryn Pecoraro
... Throughout lockdown we were all looking for entertainment, comfort, and distraction ...
Inattention & Distraction by Jordan Santo and Ben Salzman
... As ironic as it sounds, YouTube creates a community full of inattention and distraction ...
I Am Fred
... With care, talent, and prescience, Fred skims along binaries of impact in our contemporary culture, gracefully walking the line between boredom/distraction, real/parody, and isolation/community ...
BOREDOM AND DISTRACTION ON YOUTUBE
Fred's BORED and also distracted and speedy ...
A THEORETICAL GUN
... While comments on YouTube radically open access for the sharing of ideas, quickly consolidated norms for user interaction have worked to limit the gun-potential of theory through downsizing, distraction, and dumbing-down: "hahahahaha ...
"Learning from Fred"
... I mark his popularity as an indication of how well Fred effortlessly situates himself within the amateur/professional divide and between three other live tensions that define our media moment, and our lives within it:Boredom/distraction: Fred (like his teen-viewers) makes these trifles because he is stuck at home with nothing to do ... ... First, our work with young people needs to enter at the same precarious fault-lines that Fred highlights so well: professional/amateur, boredom/distraction, real/parody, isolation/community ... ... A quality classroom can best the quick highs of isolated YouTube distraction when we also dare to bring to it some of what works well on YouTube:1) Media literacy on YouTube: Now that more and more people can and do make media, media literacy must become a central component to this practice ... ... On this private postmodern TV of distraction, discrete bites of video are controlled by the discrete eye of each viewer, linked into an endless chain of immediate but forgettable gratification that can only be satisfied by another video ... ... Even the most moving of videos needs to be connected to something (other than another short video)--people, community, ideas, other videos to which it has a coherent link--if it is to create what education does best: action over distraction, deep knowledge instead of free-floating ideas, connection over the quick link, community instead of the isolated individual ...
