In 1984 ABC Broadcasted And It Was The 3rd Largest Network To Broadcast.
2008 - 1984 = 60 Years
3 Networks x 60 Years x 365 Days x 24 Hours =
1.5 Million Hours of Broadcasting
However Youtube Produced More In The Past 6 Months!!!
9232 Videos Uploaded Everyday .. 385 Always On Tv Channels ... 200 000 3 Minute Videos AND 88% Of New And Original Content !!!
Numa Numa && The CeleBraTions Of WeBcamS ...
The Song Numa Numa Became One Of The BIGGEST Hits WorldWide WhereBy Somebody Decided To Interpret It Into Their Own Using A Webcam And Later Uploading Their Video On Youtubeeee !!!
New PlatForm - Numa Numa Crazeee .. 58 000 Videos Were Uploaded - Everyone Was Copying The Numa Numa Boy Who Started This Whole Crazeee OFF ! .. Webcam Allows People To Express How Much Fun They Have And It Was Seen To Be The Celebration of FUN And the New Forms Of Communities !!!
The Machine Is Us/ing Us And The New Mediascape
It Is a Neccessity to Think About What The Web Is All About .. Its Not Just About Collecting Information Its About Linking People And Its Changing Every 6 Months !!!
Digg.com - Was a User Generated Filtering WhereBy If People Approved Of The Videos Then They Would Give The Thumbs Up And Digg It !!! .. HowEver If They Didnt Like It They Would Not Give The Thumbs Up And Those Videos Were Then Showed On The HomePage Of The WebSite !!! ..
Media Is Not Content
Media Are Not Just Tools Of Communitcation
Media Mediate Human Relations - When Media Changes The Huma Relations Change ...
Research Team ...
10 UnderGraduate Students Would Launch Into A Study Of Youtube ...
They Would Watch And Take Notes On Videos Which Then Goes Into The DataBase Whereby They Later Analyse.
Who Is On Youtube???
People Aged 35 And Over - 25% of The Videos Features This Age Range
The Same With Teens Aged 17 And Under !!!
The Most Popular Age Groups To Be Featured In The Videos Are :
18-24 Whereby 50% Of This Age Group Was Featured && Young Adults Aged 25 - 34 !!! These 2 Were The Strongest Age Group !!!
What's on YouTube?
The Most * Common * Videos On Youtube Are Home Videos .. For Example: " Charlie Bit My Finger " - These Videos Have Been Viewed Over 30 Million Times !!!
15% Of Youtubes are Remakes of Existing Videos ...
5% Of Videos Are Personal Blogs Addressed To The YouTube Community, Why?
Because Of the Loss Of Communites Over Time ...
10,000 of the 20,000 videos a day are addressed to the YouTube community !!!
YouTube In Context. The loss of Community && "Networked Individualism" (Wellman)
Because Women Joined The WorkForce They didnt Have Any Time To Spend With Their Families ...
Barry Wellman made a statement saying "From place to place to person to person connectivity" he called it "Networked Individualism".
Cultural Inversion: Individualism && Community
Express - Individualism, Independance, Commercialization
Value - Community, Relationships, Authenticity
Robert Putnom stated in 1995 "My hunck is that meeting in an electronic forum is not the equivalent of meeting in a bowling alley."
Understanding New Forms of Community Through Participant Observation
Michael Wesch Also Approved And Agreed With What Robert Putnom Had To Say ... He Added: "experience the phemenon of participant observation you have to understand."
YouTube As a Medium For Community
As We Already Know Michael Came To A Idea Whereby Media Changes Human Relations. The Students Had To Do An Investigation Where They Had To Talk To People But They Didnt Know Who ...
Our First Blogs
It Is Difficult To Make Videos Because It Seems Strange As It's Almost As If Your Talking To Yourself . Therefore People Don't Really Know What To Say So They Don't Make That Many Videos.
The Webcam: Everybody Is Watching Where Nobody Is ("context collapse")
When People Make Their Videos They Can See Their Own Identity And They Can Watch Their Video Over and Over Again As Many Times As They Wish To. It's As If EveryOne Is Watching You But You Don't Know Who's On The Recieving End.
