Innovations in Mass Communication
Posted in Uncategorized, YouTube on Mar 12th, 2010
This course is offered every Winter quarter at the University of Denver. In the winter of 2010, classmates produced the video, The Class, a parody of The Office that explores how students and faculty members are integrating technology into the classroom:
Students also contributed to discussions about connections between history and present-day communication technologies on [...]
Posted in YouTube on Jan 28th, 2010
Before YouTube, people didn’t have the means or even abilities to create and share home-made videos with one another as easily as we do today. Now, you can go home, shoot a clip of your guy friend dancing ,dressed as a girl, then plug in and upload. It’s that simple.
This technology give people the opportunity [...]
Posted in YouTube on Jan 28th, 2010
To be honest, I never really caught on to the YouTube phenomenon; I never visited the site unless someone sent me a direct link to a video. However, after watching An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube I really was able to see the website in a different light. Before watching this video I just thought of [...]
Posted in YouTube on Jan 28th, 2010
In “An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube,” Mike Wesch conducts a digital ethnographic study on the phenomenon of YouTube. Mike Wesch sees Web 2.0 as a “celebration of new forms of empowerment…community…possibility.” Sites such as YouTube, “can invent new ways to connect us together.” He approaches the phenomenon of YouTube with an optimistic view that [...]
Posted in YouTube on Jan 28th, 2010
Michael Wesch’s “Anthropological Introduction to YouTube” starts with some mind blowing statistics. What was most interesting to me was the sheer amount of content on YouTube. Wesch says, “ If all the major networks had been broadcasting 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, since they began 60 years ago, they would have produced [...]
Posted in YouTube on Jan 28th, 2010
As someone who has never uploaded a video to youtube, and do not consider myself to be a ‘youtuber’ this video was not only informative, but a little inspiring. It made me want to go explore you tube through and through, from page to page. The way Michael Wesch describes the culture that surrounds youtube [...]
Posted in YouTube on Jan 28th, 2010
I watched the YouTube clip and actually found it quite entertaining and interesting. YouTube has become such a huge part of our popular culture, and it is interesting to see how it got to be so popular. Over 9,232 hours per day spent on the site, 385 always on tv channels and 200,000 3 min videos. [...]
In the YouTube video “An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube” by Michael Wesch, Mr. Wesch speaks about the mediascape YouTube has allowed to come about. In terms of user generated content, YouTube, and services like it, have made it easy for the average person to post videos about whatever they want whenever they want to. These [...]
Posted in YouTube on Jan 28th, 2010
In, An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube, by Michael Wesch gives insight into the historical and current utilizations of YouTube. He also explains how it is constantly changing, and constantly changing the way we as people interact with each other.
I found it particularly interesting that in this video, he addresses everything we will have to rethink [...]
Posted in YouTube on Jan 26th, 2010
In his digital ethnography, An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube, Michael Wecsh examines the origins and possibilities of YouTube. This optimistic view of the cultural phenomenon of the global connectivity between people, does not address the limitations as I see them. There will be three categories of people who will not be a part of the [...]