Mike Wesch gibt eine Einführung in Youtube aus anthropologischer Sicht. Ich finde das Video superspannend (habs schon bei mir gebloggt).

Timeline von mediatedcultures.net:

• 0:00 Introduction, YouTube’s Big Numbers
• 2:00 Numa Numa and the Celebration of Webcams
• 5:53 The Machine is Us/ing Us and the New Mediascape
• 12:16 Introducing our Research Team
• 12:56 Who is on YouTube?
• 13:25 What’s on Youtube? Charlie Bit My Finger, Soulja Boy, etc.
• 17:04 5% of vids are personal vlogs addressed to the YouTube community, Why?
• 17:30 YouTube in context. The loss of community and “networked individualism” (Wellman)
• 18:41 Cultural Inversion: individualism and community
• 19:15 Understanding new forms of community through Participant Observation
• 21:18 YouTube as a medium for community
• 23:00 Our first vlogs
• 25:00 The webcam: Everybody is watching where nobody is (“context collapse”)
• 26:05 Re-cognition and new forms of self-awareness (McLuhan)
• 27:58 The Anonymity of Watching YouTube: Haters and Lovers
• 29:53 Aesthetic Arrest
• 30:25 Connection without Constraint
• 32:35 Free Hugs: A hero for our mediated culture
• 34:02 YouTube Drama: Striving for popularity
• 34:55 An early star: emokid21ohio
• 36:55 YouTube’s Anthenticity Crisis: the story of LonelyGirl15
• 39:50 Reflections on Authenticity
• 41:54 Gaming the system / Exposing the System
• 43:37 Seriously Playful Participatory Media Culture
• 47:32 Networked Production: The Collab. MadV’s “The Message” and the message of YouTube
• 49:29 Poem: The Little Glass Dot, The Eyes of the World
• 51:15 Conclusion by bnessel1973
• 52:50 Dedication and Credits (Our Numa Numa dance)