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Yvonne Rainer on YouTube (June 28, 2009)
... Her spare abstract approach compared to my verbosity demonstrates questions often raised here about talent, training, accessibility, popularity, radicality, and artisanship, all at the heart of the matter of YouTube: WOW ...
YouTubers vs. Viners by Jane Scearce
... The perspective of YouTubers seems to be this: popular Viners, while legitimate within their own platform, are unfairly using their popularity on Vine to come into the YouTube community ...
YouTube: Rise of the Celebrity Pranksters by Andrew Savage
... Within YouTube's view-based organizational structure, a new video genre has recently exploded in popularity: pranks ... ... This understanding allows them to play into YouTube's popularity-oriented organizational structure, allowing their videos to be the ones easily searched for, often times obstructing other more useful, beneficial, and important videos from reaching a substantial audience ...
YouTube, Popularity, Inanity, Fun! (November 15, 2007)
... 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 hijack YouTube to make it work against itself by making it "educate") by rerouting our attention back to what they really want from YouTube—we created an assignment, or contest really, where the student(s) who could make the most popular video in the class—the one with the most hits in two weeks—would win a prize (an automatic A on the final) ... ... For me, the few weeks we've spent thinking about popularity (something that has held little interest for me since junior high when I chose—against my feminist mom's best intentions—to be a cheerleader) has merely confirmed my worst estimations of YouTube, and of the generation that loves it ...
YouTube Tour #3, Popularity
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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 ...
YouTube Tour #1 (Education February 5, 2008)
... I will try to post one per week, with accompanying blogs, for the next eight weeks, resulting in six YouTours: education, entertainment, popularity, vernacular/visual, user/owner, and community/archive ...
YOUTUBE IS NOT DEMOCRATIC
... Hey, the most viewed deserve such attention! These special videos, well, they look like television, featuring the faces, formats, and feelings we're already familiar with, or at least aspiring to the ready popularity associated with these easily recognizable forms ... ... As is true in high school, popularity gauges something ... ... While we can all personally attest to whether popularity (or its reverse) worked for us in high school, I'll suggest the obvious: It is not the best or most "democratic" way to run our culture's most-visited archive of moving images ...
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 ...
Unearthing Music, by Sam Pick
... Although they play and write 2 very different styles and genres of music, both have found a place on YouTube to further develop their popularity ...
TOUR #3: Popularity, February 22, 2008
... I guess you can see that I'm working on my performance, which is itself an aspect of popularity on YouTube ... ... While I insist that any system of popularity creates and supports mediocrity—like in high school, the unoriginal and uncritical rise to the top: the blond babes of the pom squad—talent is still part of the picture, it's just talent in the name of the hegemonic (in high school, boys' sports, girls' sex appeal) and, on YouTube, the corporate (music videos, television shows) ... ... Entertaining but not threatening, popular YouTube videos speak to a middle-of-the-road sensibility in and about the forms of mainstream culture and media, pushing misfits into the weird cliques and hidden rooms of high school—what I call NicheTube—where one falls off the radar of popularity, underserved and unobserved because of YouTube's system of ranking ... ... While we can all attest to whether popularity (or its reverse) worked for us in high school, I'll end by suggesting the obvious: It is not the best way to run a forum of knowledge/culture/art production and distribution ...
Thoughts on Teaching on YouTube (April 28, 2008)
... Surprisingly, the structure of the course ended up being quite coherent: looking first at the forms, uses, and content; then the function of popularity; and finally the structures and economics of the site ...
The One-Woman Show, by Andrianna Betts
... While a woman's performance content may possess some NicheTube qualities including originality, difference, and zaniness, strong references or adaptations from dominant culture increase the visibility of their videos, achieving popularity ... ... In the popularity pursuit, perhaps female performers combine a comedic delivery and relatable, mainstream content into their act to ensure their work's exposure within prominent sectors of the YouTube community ...
Q&A #3 with Henry Jenkins (February 20, 2008)
... Furthermore, my students found that the system of user ranking, or popularity, has the effect of normative or hegemonic ideas rising to the top ... ... However, given that the search function relies first upon popularity, this NicheTube is hard to locat, and is currently playing a small role in the conventionalizing standards of this new form ...
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 ... ... I must admit, it was downright baffling to me how my students initially could not seem to see the systems of popularity or celebrity as constructed, as made to keep them distracted ...
Political Makeup Tutorials (and the quest for 100,000 views) by Rebecca "Rivi" Dolinger
... Poetry: On YouTube, slam poetry has risen in popularity ...
Performance Art and YouTube by Amy Griffin
... However, Sulkowitz's assaulter remains at the college, proving that although some pieces of performance art may gain popularity, often times they do not achieve the desire of the artists ... ... However, could one truly categorize this as a performance art piece, as it lacks any meaning beyond entertainment, or is the circular motion of YouTube memes and popularity an art piece of its own? ...
Perfect Parody Production, by Pete Siegel
... Along with this increase in popularity of parodies on YouTube comes a newer, higher quality, and more professionally created parody ...
Lizzie Bennet Diaries & Emma Approved: A New Age of Television by Samantha Abernathey
... Created by Hank Green and Bernie Su, both already established creators of web-specific content, this series quickly rose in popularity and viewership, concluding almost a year later with 100 total episodes, not including nearly 60 videos of ancillary content ... ... Club calls, "a landmark webseries" and greatly contributed to its popularity and reach ...
Let's Watch: Video Games on YouTube by Dorie Bailey
... Another popular gaming channel on YouTube, Roosterteeth, has capitalized on the popularity of these kinds of videos, and has a special subunit channel of the company (appropriately titled "LetsPlay") that posts multiple "Let's Plays" every week, playing a variety of games on multiple platforms ... ... The popularity of the game, notably on YouTube, has spawned two more games in the series, with a fourth set to be released on October 31st, 2015 ... ... Video game conventions, fan meet-ups, and tons of online content has come out of the YouTube's video game community, and as its popularity continues to rise, it will be interesting to see how these kinds of videos and the users that are watching them grow and change, and how YouTube will grow and change in response ...
Kevjumba: What We Can Learn from an Average Guy by Alissa Fang
... So what's so great about this kid who produces mere webcam-quality videos in his bedroom? Kevjumba's popularity could be credited to his quirky, feel-good dance intros, engaging body language, and fast jump cuts ... ... He uses his popularity to motivate his audience to think more critically about society ...
Inattention & Distraction by Jordan Santo and Ben Salzman
... Thus, YouTube wins in popularity and profitability and you win in driving, controlling, and ultimately enhancing your already inattentive nature ...
I Am Fred
... Thus, Fred's huge success and popularity is not a function of his youth fans' juvenile tastes (although this is certainly part of his appeal) as much as it is that he successfully, even maturely, works through form and content ...
Fred is Dead
... Fred leads to Fred pretenders, as well as Fred homophobic haters (or maybe homo-homagers), all enough like (faggy) Fred to be seeking some of his popularity ...
Final Texteo, by Shane Davis
... Dude Perfect, much like other YouTube stars, have gained great commercial success through their popularity on YouTube ...
Everyday or traditional activities filmed staged or made to be posted on YouTube? by Bree Serna
... Based on the increased popularity of reality television shows like Jersey Shore or Bridezilla for example, it shows that the general population enjoys the authenticity (or rather lack there of) in the reactions and actions of the individuals in the show or video ...
Beyond Visibility/Learning from Ghana (August 20, 2008)
... In her talk on the videos that flooded YouTube during the Safron Rebellion in Myanmar (several of these were the most-viewed for days), Melissa Brough, while certain that the visibility of their protest was enhanced by YouTube popularity, cautioned that this also resulted in extreme censorship for them (closing down the Internet in the country), greater endangerment for vulnerable groups (violent crackdowns against protesters seen in the videos), and a loss of control of the videos (where they went, in what context) as they did what everyone wants: to go viral ...
A Parody of Fred
... " Julie Levin Russo suggests that the girls "have absorbed and uncritically regurgitated YouTube's toxic schema of popularity while Fred is an expert manipulator of it ...
"Video Writing on YouTube"
... My gimmick, to teach the course both about and also on YouTube allowed for a brief viral moment last Fall, itself a great lesson in the workings of popularity, simplicity, and humor within on-line social networking and its many media convergences ...
"Learning from Fred"
... Their popularity among the under-fifteen set is not a fluke ... ... 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 ... ... Despite, or perhaps because of, the same time paucity and popularity of his oeuvre, it seems critical to consider what Fred might teach educators, people interested in media literacy, or youth media ...
"Irony is Ubiquitous" (Scholarly Talk and Paper)
... Of course, on YouTube Fred leads to Fred pretenders, boys playing versions of children younger squeakier and stranger than themselves or Fred, but enough like Fred to still be seeking some of his popularity (More on the unproductive self-promotion of video art narcissism later), begging their viewers to "subscribe to me," relying upon YouTube's signature mix of authenticity with its simultaneous childlike undoing and very self-aware unknowing to ratchet up more hits ... ... However, unlike more-traditional scholarly studies where popularity and marketability play little part, the structure of this project often allowed me to interact with people who are not experts in documentary, cinema studies, or new media, while also letting me engage with highly lauded specialists but via the Internet's funky places (Facebook) and by taking up the associated styles of nonscholarly prose (even when conversing about erudite matters like productive fake documentaries) ...
"How the Use of Zoom During the Pandemic Impacted Us" by Emilie Hanson
... Due to being inside, people had to turn to their computers to connect with each other and mainly use the platform "Zoom" which gained quick popularity being used for everything ...
