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YOUTUBE: THE FAILURE OF A LEARNING COMMUNITY
... When I began my research into YouTube, I faulted it as a site unsuited for the building and maintaining of community ...
YouTube: Rise of the Celebrity Pranksters by Andrew Savage
... 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 War: Jennifer Terry on Viral Video (November 21, 2008)
... Then I realized that my LFYT students really are contributing to primary YouTube research, when I shared with the speaker some of our class conversations about soldier's home movies ...
YouTube Tour #6: Losing Community in the Video Archive (March 17, 2008)
... 0 (or a library or classroom)—those that link, gather, index, search, version, allow participation, commenting, and networking—are studiously refused on the site, even as it remains the poster child of Web 2 ... ... While its users would certainly be aided by a good archivist, the site expresses to us via its conscientious failings that it is not a place to hunker down or hang out with others, not a place within which to seriously research or study, not a place for anything but solo-play ...
YouTube Tour #5: The Owner/User Dialectic (March 11, 2008)
The user is told she is free, but this is not the case ...
YOUTUBE IS NOT DEMOCRATIC
... That which we already know and already like enjoys the special treatment offered to the "most viewed": videos that are easily found, and always visible, whether you search for them or not ... ... Yes it's great to be doing your own weird thing for your wacky friends, but any one else who might be interested will never be able to join in because they will never be able to find you given YouTube's size and poor search systems ... ... As we learned through my students' research project on race on YouTube, the most popular videos about black people reflect and reinforce the standard views of our society (about black hypersexuality, low intelligence, and gonzo violence), while only in NicheTube can you find videos that support black self-love or analysis ...
YOUTUBE IS DIY: THEN WHAT?
"By empowering ordinary people to speak as experts, they question a basic assumption of dominant ideology, that only those already in power, those who have a stake in defending the status quo, are entitled to speak as if they know something ...
YOUTUBE FORECLOSES COMMUNITY
... A searching eye creates the greatest revenue ... ... 0—those that link, gather, index, search, version, allow participation, commenting, and networking—are studiously refused on the site, even as YouTube remains its poster child ... ... While its millions of users would be well attended by a good archivist or two, in its calculated failings YouTube signals that it is not a place to hunker down or hang out with others, not a place within which to seriously research or study, not a place for anything but wasting time on your own ...
Youtube - Helping the Underground Surface, by Bryan Reinke
... While it is still hard to discover new music through YouTube because of its weak search system and structure as an archive, artists whom you hear of through word of mouth, blogs, or by some others means can now be much more easily accessed ...
We're Not in Kansas Anymore (August 4, 2008)
... For while I have a great deal to learn from Wesch's research and that of his students, and have also been pleased to see that many of our findings are closely synched, while watching him (our teaching and pedagogy is public, itself a strange new feature of our shared project), I have experienced tremors of self-consciousness in relation to the extreme difference of tenor that distinguish both the content and presentation of our findings ...
Vigilante Justice-YouTube as the Everyday Whistleblower by Jaclyn Roher
... These types of videos also include dozens of TSA pat-down/harassment videos, where family members record small children being searched for drugs or weapons ...
Video Dada (February 1, 2010)
... Gever was quick to note that while the order of the videos is not important, she had carefully and rigorously selected all of them (as "artful: carefully constructed, inventive, mindful of technique, and infused by sophisticated cultural intelligence") through a painstaking, multiyear process of looking for video art in the sea of crap that included the additional looking-labor of several TAs as well as Gever searching for the names of hundreds of contemporary artists in YouTube to see if anything might come up (it did ... ... While I couldn't find them again on YouTube, Gever had located both of these YouTubers through searching from the New Museum's Younger Than Jesus show ...
Video Art on YouTube: The Name is Equivocal (October 27, 2009)
... Is this an art form, a new genre? An anthology of valued activity conducted in a particular arena defined by display on a cathode ray tube? The kind of video made by a special class of people--artists--whose works are exhibited primarily in what is called 'the art world'--ARTISTS' VIDEO?"– David Antin, from "Video: The Distinctive Features of the Medium," Video Art, 1976Searching for videos on YouTube is never the best way to find them ... ... ) I'll attest that you can't find much video art there by searching that or any other concrete term, such as the other common one, art video, if you are looking for the practices already heralded as such by the authorities of the art world, academia, or independent media ... ... As proves typical of the site, what you do find gives some indication of non-expert understandings of both concepts and the words that define them, mixed up, of course, with corporate and individual's shenanigans (adding unrelated but popular search terms in order to achieve higher hits ...
TOUR #3: Popularity, February 22, 2008
... While it's often fine to be off the radar, doing your own weird thing with your wacky friends, in the rare event that others might be interested, given YouTube's size and poor search systems, it's likely that they'll never find you ...
Thoughts on Teaching on YouTube (April 28, 2008)
... Thus, all assignments had to be produced as YouTube comments or videos, all research had to be conducted within its pages, and all classes were taped and put on to YouTube ... ... In this way, the methods and materials for the course were selected by the students, who were forced by me to be atypically creative and responsible, successfully inventing or recycling a wide range of methodologies for academic research and "writing" within my tough constraints ...
The Society of Today Cannot Sit Still, by MrAcam1515
... instead they search for princess Peach, and they are Mario and Luigi on a video game console ...
The New Age of The Music Video by Jason Blagman
... As it is stated through LFYT, videos on YouTube are no longer just for the causal viewer, it has become a search engine ...
The Failures of Fred's Fans: For Youth Media Symposium (April 14, 2010)
... I will also present it to my CGU cultural studies graduate course, Visual Research Methods, as an example of new media scholarship on digital storytelling ...
The Effect of YouTube on College Athletics Recruiting by Sean Simmons
... College coaches now have the ability to search for videos of their recruit whenever they please ...
The Deceit of YouTube by Isha Tirumali
... Searching for the SNL parody of the O ...
The Dark Side of the Moon:YouTube's Unviewed Other Half by JChoops7yt
... Virtually any typical YouTube search returns pages of videos with four+ digit view counts ... ... Even a search as random as "BLT Sandwich" offers fourteen highly-viewed videos before a single video with fewer than 1,000 views ... ... Users usually find a satisfactory video among the top three our four most "relevant" videos returned by a search ... ... YouTube, by default, sorts search results by relevance ... ... The site allows its users to sort search results by view count, but only in one direction ... ... If a user searched the title of a popular song and sorted the results by view count, she would have to click through countless pages of results just to get down to videos with five-digit view counts, not to mention finding a video with fewer than 500 views ... ... Will YouTube ever let its users sort a search by least viewed videos? If it did, would users spend less time watching videos with attached advertisements, resulting in less revenue for YouTube? It would certainly make it easier for users find videos with few views, and hidden gems would be found within this vast, unexplored content ...
The Absurdities of Moving from Paper to Digital in Academic Publishing (June 11, 2010)
... As I was negotiating my contract with the MIT Press to "publish" this video-book about YouTube, the enlightening, confusing, crazy, friendly, and productive conversations I had with my editor, Doug Sery, and my production team at USC's Vectors and IML were a telling indication of how far academic publishing (and writing) has to go to match the technological possibilities for writing, research, and public intellectualism afforded by new media ... ... 10) Index: The Work has a search function and thus I will not need to make an index ...
Q&A #3 with Henry Jenkins (February 20, 2008)
... 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 #1 with Henry Jenkins (February 20, 2008)
... Our main criticisms came around these four structural limitations: communication, community, research, and idea-building ... ... - finding pertinent materials: the paucity of its search function, currently managed by users who create the tags for searching, means it is difficult to thoroughly search the massive holdings of the site ...
Pushing around Henry Jenkins: YouTube Criticism as Cynical Circling (October 14, 2008)
... Like the YouTube videos they learn from, their point of view is expressed through self-reflexive and soft satire (Note: the videos I linked to here, under soft satire, are from others students' research on Jenkins, you can see more of these projects on our class page ...
Political Makeup Tutorials (and the quest for 100,000 views) by Rebecca "Rivi" Dolinger
... I did my research ...
Parodies, by Brian Ssembajjwe
... As you search YouTube, its very common to stumble upon these short clip comedy videos altered from original music videos, movies, commercials etc ...
ORIENTATION TO THE CLASS
... Our classes were recorded and put on YouTube, and all of the students' research and course work was confined to the form of either videos or comments on YouTube ... ... Undergraduate students were asked to participate in the hard (and rare) task of producing their own original research and criticism of a massively influential cultural phenomenon, as it was developing, within its vernaculars, and on its own turf ...
Online school in the 2020's by Samantha R.
... This has, perhaps inadvertently, also given people outside these classes and schools access to part of the college experience, since anyone can search for these recorded classes on YouTube ...
On Michael Wesch's Whatever (July 18, 2009)
... " The two of us share a YouTube project based on pedagogy and student interaction (as an anthropologist, his research focuses on self and community, while as a media studies scholar, mine tends to look more closely at media forms), because of our differences, I'm always thrilled to see what he and his gang have been up to ... ... His students' recent research on the meanings of "whatever"—from "conclusive," to "opting out," to "narcissism"—is funny, compelling and scary ...
MPme: Variant of a Manifesta (August 27, 2007)
... out into the open with camcorder in hand, into four dimensions (history, politics, theory, and practice), in search of our own material, from our experiences, relationships, and commitments to social justice ...
MORE
... The More pull-down list in the top-right corner holds several resources of note: A bibliography of Online Resources with links to the varied websites that were used to research and write this video-book ... ... Furthermore, the Origins & Context and See Also pull-down lists (just below and to the right of the Search window) provide even more resources:Brief bullets of background information that frame the condensed (often tweet-like) writing of the texteos, with links offsite for further reading ...
Me 'n MIT: Building Better Contracts for On-Line Publishing (October 23, 2010)
... Also, given that the video-book is searchable, it was agreed that I need not provide an index ...
Manipulating YouTube, by Scott Ogilvie
... If you can't find something on YouTube, why not put it up yourself? After a token shot at the search structure of YouTube, I ask the viewer who is really in control of YouTube ... ... They determine what is popular, so in essence it is they who are determining what videos are returned in searches ... ... Try doing a search for the actual title of my video (not the texteo) on YouTube to see how easy it is to overcome problems with the search algorithm ...
Looking for Video Artists (November 3, 2009)
... Perhaps the easiest way to find (established) video art on YouTube is to search the site using the name of an already-famous video artist ...
Learning from YouTube (September 7, 2007)
... I am also concerned that the experimental nature of the class (largely student led and limited to YouTube for all coursework—assignments and research) is going to make our work much harder, and my chances of failing much larger ...
Learning from "LFYT" but not learning from YouTube ... by Neal Kemp
... Given the vast majority of YouTube users are there for entertainment, the top search results and the most viewed videos are purely entertainment ...
I Look to ThirdTube (March 5, 2008)
... I've recently come across the research of AnthroVlog on YouTube ...
How YouTube Has Served as a Steroid for Skateboard Sponsorship, by Sean Ludeman
... Not only does it benefit skaters, but companies too! Instead of having to watch hundreds of "sponsor me" tapes sent to the company headquarters via snail mail, companies can find the best prospective skaters with the click of a mouse because videos are already sorted by MOST POPULAR, enabling anyone to easily find some of the best skateboarders on the first page of their search query ...
HOW TO USE THIS VIDEO-BOOK
... 3) Search (a window available next to the YouTours, Tags and Voice pull-down lists at the top) that delivers a triage page: a simple list or overview of everything held in the video-book that includes a particular keyword ... ... Furthermore, the Origins and Context and See Also pull-down lists (just below and to the right of the Search window) give you, respectively, brief bullets of background information with offsite links for further reading that frame the short (often tweet-like) texteos, and external YouTube links to related videos ... ... The More pull-down list (to the right of the Search window) gives you several further resources—a list of Online Resources (like a bibliography), a list of Online Citations (like footnotes), the complete Glossary, and Credits (these are all described in greater detail in the final texteo in this YouTour, called "MORE ... ... ")Finally, Voice (the pull-down list between Tags and Search) provides the opportunity to speak to (and on) the site in its vernacular and within its architecture (via YouTube), by authoring your own texteo! From there you can also help the project by reporting broken links, typos, or other problems ...
FakeTube: Join the Search! (December 3, 2008)
I am MP:me ...
Dear Ickaprick (September 2, 2009)
... I have written in other places about why conversation is so puerile on YouTube, and here I blame the corporation that denies us community on the site to keep us searching, moving eyeballs to advertisements ...
Clicks, by Bianca Garcia
... Is anything original anymore? Has it all been already done? Just because you are the one doing something on camera and framing your opinion, does it still make you or your argument unique? In YouTube, if you type in one title or category in the search bar, you can have thousands of videos covering similar material ...
Circling Jenkins #2: Boobs and Bytes (October 14, 2008)
... They made videos about their research about how user-generated YouTube videos have enhanced citizens' participation in our current election ...
Bieber Fever ... Is It Something You Can Catch? by Jordan Rosenberg
... But this platform is not for representation, but it is for freedom to search, and freedom to watch the most popular videos, and it might happen that one talent agent searches and turns the wanna-be into a person more watched than the leader of the free-world within 24 months ...
"Video Writing on YouTube"
... In Learning from YouTube, I am interested in participating with my students in primary research about the forms and functions of this particular poster-child for web 2 ...
"LFYT: Search Function (Final)," by baxteric1
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"Learning from Fred"
... All course assignments took the form of comments or videos, all classes were taped, uploaded, and made public on YouTube, and research was limited to within its pages ... ... 0—those which link, gather, index, search, version, and allow participation, commenting, and networking—are studiously refused on the site, even as YouTube remains its poster-child ...
"Irony is Ubiquitous" (Scholarly Talk and Paper)
... I'll soon detail my online search and method, looking for productive fake docs on YouTube for this talk ... ... Leave it to say, I networked my research as part of the show and tell ... ... When I began research for this project a few months ago, my hypothesis was already what I have developed thus far, that fake documentary dominates on YouTube, but not productively ... ... The remainder of my talk is an analysis of the twenty videos, and associated comments, that I rather effortlessly acquired through outsourcing my research, and what this "data" suggests about our current viewing practices ... ... Fittingly, the only response I got to my video plea circulated via my YouTube page (which is dedicated to the work of my media studies class, Learning from YouTube) was from wjrcbrown, who wrote this comment on my video, FakeTube: Join the Search!: "I am intrigued about this idea of nothing being real if it is broadcast ... ... But are her comments useful as primary research? And for me the vital question: Why does she assume I'm sarcastic?Watching me here in this room, do I seem sardonic? Sure, a little playful, doling out the chance alliteration and peppering with the vernacular aside ... ... Holyoke College and current preschool teacher, wrote to me on Facebook, "I found some good ones using the search word 'mockumentary' ... ... " Sadly, Linda never wrote back with her favorites, and what I located using her search suggestion looks like everything else on YouTube, a random if eclectic mixture of student videos, conspiracy freaks, and the prizewinning JetBlue ad we've already seen ... ... Trying to make sense of my eclectic, eccentric list of twenty turns out to be not much different from making sense of any search on YouTube, only in this case the videos were vetted by some of my random friends, family, and general hangers-on rather than a corporate algorithm ... ... While certainly "arty" in its use of animation and voice alteration, both used to underline the constructedness of his YouTube character (as does Fred by speeding up his voice), and definitely composed within the triangle of interactivity allowed by social networking, I'd say Ben steers too far toward the register of the self-aggrandizing friend search, claims about Congress, the war in Iraq, food, education, election fraud, toxins, and corporate ownership to be productive ... ... com/search?q=febris ...
"Inhuman Perpetrators" by John Ramsey
... " Sarah Frier and Sarah KopitIn research conducted by Cynthia Wang at the Kellogg Institute, at Northwestern University in 2021, the purchase of misinformation via social media vitality was analyzed in terms of the platform boosts due to algorithmic formula, and the psychological appeal of community that is found amongst conspiracy believers; a sense of bond and solidity among isolated people during a pandemic lockdown ... ... From my research on the subject of misinformation related to Covid-19, blame for the spread of misinformation is nearly always alloted to social media algorithms and political influencers ... ... According to a article in a journal called 'Cognition', recent research results showed that conspiracy theories and misinformation were met with wider receptivity not because of bias; but because of a lack of reasoning at all, rather than 'motivated reasoning ...
"Help, I'm Stuck and I Can't Remember!" By Jonah Goldstein
... Though research shows that I am not the only one ... ... It can take time for people that were affected to gain recognition and for research to catch up ...
