Class Ten: YouTube
James Kotecki visit upstairs in 3030!
Nine Propositions Toward a Cultural Theory of YouTube
1.hybrid of commercial, amateur, nonprofit, governmental, educational, and activist content co-exists and interacts in ever more complex ways.
2. meeting points and shared visions - the ambiguity of "you"
3. amateur curators re-presenting commercial content
4. relationship to other social networking sites (is this the right word? What is a definition of a social network?)
5. citizen-journalists
6. a popular political culture (but not necessarily a progressive one)
7.debates between gift economy and commodity culture
8. social skills
9. underrepresented groups
Who is Henry Jenkins?
What does he believe about collective intelligence, participatory culture, transmedia narratives, and the "black box fallacy"?
Why does he say fans are "textual poachers" . . . in a good way?
Why is YouTube like vaudeville?
