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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) ... ... The students' best intentions seem caught between their interest in learning (the old or real way) and the fun they seem to have with popular culture and this inventive class that mirrors and remarks upon it ...
YouTube Writing (May 13, 2008)
... So who cares about thick description and careful exegesis? Let it go!It's worth noting, of course, that during LFYT my students and I often most desired to write papers about what we learned because this was the most precise and accurate way to convey academic analysis ...
YouTube War: Jennifer Terry on Viral Video (November 21, 2008)
... She explains that a terrifying oblivion of affect (what my students and I are calling flow-vids ... ... 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 ... ... My students' ideas complement Terry's analysis by looking at these images through the lens of the history and theory of the home movie (as opposed to other "reality"-based genres) ...
YouTube Tour #5: The Owner/User Dialectic (March 11, 2008)
... But this is what my students learned, (perhaps because I am their master teacher [OOPS!])"In computer networking, master/slave is a model for a communication protocol in which one device or process (known as the master) controls one or more other devices or processes (known as slaves) ...
YouTube Tour #4: Bad Video: From Meaning to Feeling (February 27, 2008)
... My students add nuance to this list by suggesting that there are five forms—talking heads, spoofs, corporate videos, inside jokes, and appropriated—but I think theirs fall nicely into my big two ... ... And, what should we make of those very many videos that fall off this binary—beautifully rendered art video, professional documentaries on politics, the video essays my students and I experimented with for this class? Yes, the serious work of those attending to form and ideology outside of dominant culture can be found on NicheTube, but this functions as does all alternative media, performing its role as tv's marginal, if interdependent, force-of-conscience ...
YouTube Tour #1 (Education February 5, 2008)
... Whereas my students are forced to hear me speak, or at least pretend to, the YouTube viewer must want to stay there because of my media skills, useful information, and entertainment value ...
YOUTUBE IS NOT DEMOCRATIC
... 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 ... ... Meanwhile, the most wacky (or ideological) outliers are quickly flagged, flamed, tamed, and absented from YouTube's pages (my students' video mentioned above, "Blacks on YouTube Final," has been flagged for "inappropriate content," which I assume refers to the students' careful if ideological analysis and not the black booty they feature, which itself is shown all over YouTube) ...
You Tube is a Great Place for Athletes to Self-Advertise by Zack Tannous
... Just like for high school students, it gives players more publicity to make their way to higher levels of their sport ...
We're Not in Kansas Anymore (August 4, 2008)
... Professor Wesch and his students are engaging in a participant ethnography of "YouTube as a medium for community ... ... 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 ...
Toward A YouTube Ethics (May 2, 2008)
... I recently read online about grad students at the University of Iowa putting videos on YouTube about their working conditions ... ... " Although I wrote recently (with some disdain) about the Washington Post asking me to analyze the viral YouTube DIY video of a cuckolded socialite wife (Tricia Walsh-Smith)—who used YouTube to air her dirty relational, sexual, and financial laundry during a heated divorce—the graduate students' use (also from the bottom side of a historic power dynamic) reveals the previously unspoken (and unspeakable) economic abuse that allows large institutions to operate and therefore seems a somehow less sordid use of YouTube ... ... Is it okay to use YouTube to expose the private financial details of a marriage or the private financial relations of a university? Why should these be private? What of the penis size of a spouse, or the class load of a teaching assistant? What if you're drunk, lying, or parodying when you do it?The "English TA Experience" page on Facebook runs a chain of email messages between the department chair and the graduate students, and it is introduced by an email "in defense of free speech" by Neal Bowers, Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences and professor of English at Iowa State University, who writes: "Mostly in private, and in collusion with his administrative staff—Dave Roberts, Connie Post, and Barb Blakely—Charlie has forced one of our graduate students to remove a posting from YouTube ... ... He has accomplished this by meeting individually with various graduate students and, through an apparent process of intimidation, bullying them into surrendering one of their basic rights ...
TOUR #3: Popularity, February 22, 2008
... As we learned through my students' project on race on YouTube, popular videos about black people reflect and reinforce the standard (racist) views of our society, while NicheTube videos support black self-love and politics ...
Thoughts on Teaching on YouTube (April 28, 2008)
... And I figured that my students (given their greater facility with a life online) probably knew better than I how to navigate the site ... ... Given that college students are rarely asked to consider how they learn on top of what they are learning, I thought it would be pedagogically useful for the form of the course to mirror YouTube's structures for learning, like its amateur-led pedagogy ... ... Beyond this, students quickly realized how well trained they already are to do academic work using words—their expertise—and how poor their media-production literacy is (there were no media-production skills required for the course as there are none on 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 ... ... Furthermore, and quite impressively given their lack of technical skills and serious initial qualms, the students devised a series of methods to do their academic assignments in the form of video ...
The Resolution of MP:me (August 21, 2007)
... Therefore the Council of MP:me without waiting for my students to be assigned works and ignoring the latter's desire to realize their own projects, is temporarily disregarding authorship rights and resolves to immediately publish for general use the common principles and slogans of the future revolution-through-YouTube; for which purpose, first and foremost, femi-digi-practitioner (feminist digital practitioner) Alexandra Juhasz (MP:me) is directed, in accordance with the discipline of media praxis (an enduring, mutual, and building tradition that theorizes and creates the necessary conditions for media to play an integral role in cultural and individual transformation), to repurpose and "publish" online certain excerpts from her chapter "Documentary on YouTube: The Failure of the Direct Cinema of the Slogan" ( Re-Thinking Documentary, ed ...
Q&A #3 with Henry Jenkins (February 20, 2008)
... HJ: Your students pointed towards a fairly limited range of representations of race and gender in YouTube content ... ... Why might such stereotypes persist in what is in theory an open and participatory channel? More generally, what factors do you think limits the cultural and ideological diversity of current digital culture?AJ: I ended up learning a lot from this class (particularly from its unique YouTube-like structure) and even more from its students (which is where I started—I did believe correctly that on this subject they could educate me) ... ... My students have learned that controversial opinions, outside the norms of the society, are often so flagged and censored ... ... Furthermore, my students found that the system of user ranking, or popularity, has the effect of normative or hegemonic ideas rising to the top ...
Q&A #2 with Henry Jenkins (February 20, 2008)
... 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 ... ... When our pretty massive visibility led to prying cameras that took up a lot of classroom space and time but never bothered to see or understand our project with any depth, and a media culture that ridiculed us without interviewing us, the idea of celebrity as an unquestionable good in itself was easily cracked open for the students ...
Q&A #1 with Henry Jenkins (February 20, 2008)
... What limitations did you discover about YouTube as a vehicle for critique and analysis?AJ: My hope that the students would be able to see and name the limits of this site as a place for higher education were quickly met ...
Pushing around Henry Jenkins: YouTube Criticism as Cynical Circling (October 14, 2008)
... Which is to say that with Jenkins' ideas, like seemingly everything else my students think about, the approach and take-home conclusions are a kind of cynical circling: the students hover near his ideas, prodding at them gently through parody, or perhaps sarcasm, while offering their own criticisms ambiguously, circuitously ... ... 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 ...
Pandemic Pedagogy 2023, by Alexandra Juhasz
... I learned from students in LFYT 2022, and then thinking about this and writing about it for a keynote address a few months later:A class or a lecture is a temporary community; a theory is not a cure; social engagement in school is as complicated and real as it is anywhere; practice and pedagogy are what happens now between people in shared space; paper and digital formats can hold some of that, but after after, these documents demand an intentional praxis of context-specific social engagement to let them be real and true and live and be used again ... ... -Consider how international students can be supported in a time of widespread anti-Asian racism ... ... "Feminist Pedagogy in a Time of Coronavirus Pandemic," FemTechNet, 2020(pandemic) PEDAGOGY: We need to see the complexities of our students' lives, to hear their voices, to understand their pain and what they have endured, and to help them create the lives of purpose they desperately want ...
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 ... ... Since then, I've attempted to systematize some of the pedagogical, formal, and cultural implications of what I experienced when teaching the class (while at the same time having it covered by the media and its students) ...
Online school in the 2020's by Samantha R.
... In the spring of 2020, online school became a reality for most college students in the USA ... ... Even if a student misses a zoom class for whatever reason, many professors will record the class and post it online for absent students to catch up, or if someone just wants to go over the lecture again ... ... Also, both students and teachers alike have found the chat box feature to be useful for sharing relevant links, asking quick questions without taking up class time or derailing the discussion, and as a way for less outgoing students to participate if they are too shy to speak up ...
On YouTube (October 10, 2007)
... Furthermore, without the disciplining function of the space of the classroom, I felt certain that most of the students did the bare minimum, posting their assigned two questions and then going on to play frisbee (or watch frisbee videos on YouTube), while the few truly committed participants enjoyed the experience, were annoyed by it, and learned much from the clunkiness of the process ... ... However, a new sense of having no responsibility to our community defined the online class, whereas even the least attentive of students performs the motions of community engagement when held with others in a physical space ... ... This question of discipline in the classroom, and in education generally, has been raised often in the class (as students demand more discipline or structure even as I remind them that they are participating in their own censure); the undisciplined nature of YouTube, its inability to provide structures, clear links, group spaces—really any kind of coherence—is its biggest fault, at least for online learning ... ... Finally, while the students have certainly been pushing the form to engage in sophisticated expression and real dialogue, I find the level of interaction on YouTube to be paltry in relation to what occurs in a "real" classroom ... ... This may be because in a traditional and shared physical space that I moderate, and sometimes lead, my presence makes the students amp up the wattage, or the nature of the group itself in real time and space pushes people to perform ...
On Upper-Crass Video and the Washington Post (April 17, 2008)
... In making work on and about YouTube, writing this blog, and reading other blogs, I've certainly found a community of other scholars, students, and smart nonacademic people asking whether these new (networking) technologies can be used for discourse outside and in opposition to corporate culture ...
On Michael Wesch's Whatever (July 18, 2009)
... His students' recent research on the meanings of "whatever"—from "conclusive," to "opting out," to "narcissism"—is funny, compelling and scary ...
My Orientation (toward YouTube and ThirdTube)
... I believe that under the right conditions, citizens and students (Web 2 ...
LEARNING THE FIVE LESSONS OF YOUTUBE
... Immediately networked, to be largely mocked through the predictable anti-intellectual stance used at least annually to report on events at meetings like MLA (a scholarly paper on melancholy? and Keanu Reeves!), my students and I will have the last laugh ...
Learning from YouTube (September 7, 2007)
... And while I'm committed to what it means to open access to my class, it now seems clear to me that this also limits my teaching (and perhaps my students' learning, as they are equally self-conscious) ... ... Ever multiplying views are informative about the logic of YouTube but ultimately invasive, as is simply managing the outside communication that this brings (emails, letters, requests), easily expanding the demands on me from my thirty enrolled students to anyone who is interested ... ... I was excited to see that in the second class, and with only the most superficial of assignments, the students were already touching on many of the BIG IDEAS about YouTube and digital culture: its postmodern reliance on humor, celebrity, and referentiality to mainstream culture; its democratic function as soap box for the talent/opinions/expression of regular people; its mind-numbing, time-wasting superficiality; the raucous and unruly nature of the conversations it produces ... ... My challenge will be to work with the class to hone, focus, and systematize such conversations given that we cannot refer to other scholarly works, and given that I have ceded a certain amount of real control to the students ...
Hildebrand on Joanie 4 Jackie (March 31, 2009)
... I was most taken by my friend and colleague Lucas Hildebrand's presentation on the video chain letters of Joanie 4 Jackie, formerly Big Miss Moviola, once the project of Miranda July, and now a labor of love by students at Bard College ...
Fox It Is and Fox Is It (September 21, 2007)
... I started this thing: it's my responsibility; if I won't stand up to corporate media to say why I'm attending critically if playfully to YouTube, who will? My students? The blogosphere? That's not fair ...
Final Texteo, by Shane Davis
... These three videos are by Dude Perfect, a group of college students who became famous on YouTube for their trick basketball shots ...
Final Texteo, by Nicola Persky
... Nicola, one of Professor Juhasz's LFYT students, discusses the absence of tangibility and personal ownership within YouTube ...
Everything on YouTube Is Video Art ... Nah (September 10, 2009)
Again, I am moved to respond to Virginia Heffernan's intelligent analyses of YouTube ...
ENTERTAINMENT/EDUCATION
... Today's students, schooled on YouTube, iphones, and Wiis, want their information relayed with ease and fun: they want it pleasurable, simplified, and funny ... ... While I'm the first to admit that a good professor makes "hard" information understandable, I also expect my students to take pleasure in the hard work of understanding it ... ... Sure, I am a performer, entertaining my students while sneaking in critical theory, avant-garde forms, and radical politics into my pedagogy ...
COVID-19 Made Us Stronger by Max Bieber
... Students by the names of Zach Maccauley and Jared Boone were stuck on campus during the pandemic, but they exercised their persistence and their passion for making Tik Tok videos and they still made some outstanding videos that got the attention of big content creators like a former Vine star Zach King ...
CONTROL/CHAOS
... While a critical classroom begins to alter this script by giving more power to students and allowing knowledge to be created dynamically, this is not the random chaos of information that defines YouTube ...
Circling Jenkins #2: Boobs and Bytes (October 14, 2008)
... In the same Learning from YouTube class where two students presented their fake documentary about convergence culture and the tv show The Hills, two other groups presented on political convergence culture ... ... )?The second round reference is to the breasts that feature prominently and centrally (if unintentionally) within all the videos featured in my students' intelligent, if uncritical compendium of the formats used for YouTube political convergence culture ... ... As we build collective intelligence about this election (and otherwise), should we be satisfied with the sexism and satire that undergirds much YouTube discourse about politics? Is a reliance upon (even if sarcastically) often-stupid popular culture even understandable as intelligence? My students suggest that moving (circling) bytes of media from one platform to another (convergence), raising its exposure and hits, is today's dominant form of contemporary political participation ... ... As I lectured my students yesterday: there is a war and a depression ...
Bad On Purpose: On the Corporate Faking of Hand-made Films (September 4, 2009)
... I propose Paper Heart to be another member of what I'd like to call "the slow-film movement" (I've already written about Be Kind Rewind and Zach and Miri Make a Porno as high achieving students in this pseudo-school, but we need to remember Dogme 95 as well), by which I really mean the bad-film movement of corporate financed and released feature films that at once mimic, make fun of, and glorify an over-the-top parody of handmade (DIY, YouTube) user-generated style ...
"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 ... ... For the class, students are required to do all their coursework as either YouTube videos or comments ... ... Finally, sometimes my students will pull the power play of sincerity, which, in ways YouTube, creates productive tension with the site's expected cynacism and humor ... ... PUBLIC WRITING: The writing classroom ideally depends upon an intimate and "safe" gathering of carefully selected students to create a communal pedagogy ... ... It is hard to use for academic video writing, but students try, usually through opposition ...
"Picture of America (Hilarious Drunk College Students)," by CollegeKnowledge
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"Learning from Fred"
... Rather, students need to learn media history, aesthetics, storytelling, and analysis as they play with and enjoy newly accessible technologies ... ... Media literacy needs to happen at school, and it should be about what students love—Fred, for instance ...
"Irony is Ubiquitous" (Scholarly Talk and Paper)
... In 2007, still a YouTube doubter, I thought my students could teach me to understand and appreciate its many vernaculars and values; and this they have ... ... Marie, one of my graduate students who provided me with this link, writes: "And another, very short 'Fake' in that it uses the form and twists it on itself to reach its message, but poignant and possibly real, too ...
"How the Use of Zoom During the Pandemic Impacted Us" by Emilie Hanson
... This affected both students and people working over Zoom ...
