An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube

0.00: Introduction, You Tube's Big Numbers

• ABC started broadcasting in 1948
  

2.00: Numa Numa & The Celebration Of Web cams

• Web cams were created in December 2004
  

• Introduced to you tube in 2005

12.16 : Introducing Our Research Team

• He has 10 under graduated students

12.56 : Who Is On You Tube

• 25% = 35 and over
  
• 25% = teens upto 17
  

13.25 : What's on YouTube? Charlie Bit My Finger, Soulja Boy

• 92 year old man playing a piano.


• 15% videos on You Tube are remakes of other videos.

17.04 : 5% Of Vids Are Personal Blogs Addressed To The You Tube Community, why?

• Due to the loss of community over time
  

17.30 : You Tube In Context. The Loss Of Community and "Network Individualism" (Wellman)

18.41 : Cultural Inversion: Individualism & Community

• Express = People becoming more independent & confidentt
  

19.15 : Understanding New Forms Of Community Thought Participant Observation

• You have to understand it to experience it = methodology
  

21.18 : You Tube As A Medium For Community

• People are talking to their web cams.


• talking to a camera.
  

23.00 : Our First Vlogs

• People make videos & do a few shots & retakes to make sure their hairs fine
  

25.00 : The Web cam: Everybody Is Watching Where Nobody Is ("Context Collapse").

• people producing act and being something they are not
  

26.05 : Re-Cognition & New Forms Of Self-Awareness

unknown people watching video

27.58 : The Anonymity Of Watching You Tube: Haters & Lovers

• Hatred caused by public
• Can Stare at other people instead of making them uncomfortable because they wont know your looking at them.

29.53 : Aesthetic Arrest

• People can't experience this in every day life as they cant stare at people whereas on You Tube they can as the person in the video will not be aware of this.

30.25 : Connection Without Constraint

• shows communication
  

32.35 :Free Hugs: A Hero For Our Mediated Culture

• free hugs by Juan Mann
  
• 30 million views on youtube.

34.02 :YouTube Drama: Striving For Popularity

• users want to be rated
  

34.55 : An Early Star: Emokid21ohio

• this person was a false person.
  

36.55 : YouTube's Anthenticity Crisis: The Story Of LonelyGirl15

• started Vlogging in June 2006
• People began calling her "fake" = people became angry as they do not like being fooled.

41.54 :Gaming The System/Exposing The System

• people putting attractive images so people can view them.
  

43.57 : Seriously Playful Participatory Media Culture

• anybody can be on youtube.
  
• Remixing is illegal
  

47.32 :Networked Production: The Collab. MadV's "The Message" && The Message of YouTube

• Recieves thousands of responses &many people writing on their hand a message.
• They have very strong values

49.29 : Poem: The Little Glass Dot, The Eyes Of The World

• Its the eye of the world as many people can communicate from it to people all over the world.

51.15 : Conclusion By Bnessel1973

youtube helped him live