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Origins of this content
This texteo is an example of the work of one of the other professors who have tried to understand online video through the making of videos and have engaged, in the process, in new forms of and communities for pedagogy. Many professors are on YouTube using the medium to better understand media.
Contextualization
Vernacular video, according to Tom Sherman, "will continue to be shorter and shorter," will use "canned music," "sampling," and "real-time, on-the-fly voiceovers." He concludes: "Crude is cool, as opposed to slick."[cit]

Howard Rheingold "fell into the computer realm from the typewriter dimension, then plugged my computer into my telephone and got sucked into the net ... In 2008, he was a winner in MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning competition and used his award to work with a developer to create a free and open source social media classroom."[cit]

Cyber studies is often bifurcated by a euphoria/pessimism divide focusing on questions like whether the internet opens or closes conversation and community, is democratic or corporate-controlled particularly around issues of copyright and intellectual property, and produces new forums for expression or calcifies prevailing borders as well as possibilities for surveillance.
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