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Credits

Learning From YouTube
by Alexandra Juhasz
design by Craig Dietrich

View full list of contributors on the credits page

1. YouTours
   1. HOW TO USE THIS VIDEO-BOOK
   2. Pre-Tour: YOUTUBE IS ...
   3. Pre-Tour: THE CLASS
   4. Pre-Tour: THIRDTUBE!
   5. Bad Video/Corporate Media
   6. Chaos/Control
   7. Distraction/Depth
   8. Public/Private
   9. Corporation/User
   10. Isolation/Connection
   11. NicheTube/Popularity
   12. Entertainment/Education
   13. Real/Parody
   14. Punk/DIY
   15. Post-Tour: LESSONS LEARNED
   16. Post-Tour: USER-GENERATED TEXTEOS
   17. Post-Tour: PANDEMIC MEDIA (2022)
2. Tags
   1. Access
   2. Activism
   3. Amateur
   4. Architecture
   5. Capitalism
   6. Censorship
   7. Class Work
   8. Community
   9. Context
   10. Convergence
   11. Documentary

   1. HomeMovie
   2. Identity
   3. Isolation
   4. Pedagogy
   5. PomoTV
   6. Praxis
   7. VBlog
   8. Vernacular
   9. VideoStylo
   10. Viral
   11. Visibility
3. Voice
   1. Contribute new texteo
   2. Report: link, video, typo
4. Search
5. More
   1. Online Resources
   2. Online Citations
   3. Glossary
   4. Credits
   5. Site Map

For as long as viral video has been around on YouTube (I know, not very long), the parody video has thrived.

Towards the beginning of the viral video explosion, parodies were often poorly made user content, often with bad video quality. However, as viral video becomes, well, more viral, so does the YouTube parody video.

Along with this increase in popularity of parodies on YouTube comes a newer, higher quality, and more professionally created parody. What was once often a way for the user to outdo the corporate on YouTube has now been put in the hands of the corporate itself.

Instead of seeing lo-fi parodies with unknown users as actors, now we begin to see celebrities and professional actors taking on the YouTube parody. The parody is yet another aspect of YouTube that has been taken from the user and dominated by the corporate.