Sandbox
Jan 28th, 2007 by Prof Wesch
This is our sandbox, a place where we begin formulating our ideas about future projects, building sandcastles of ideas, knocking them down, and trying again.
Since I (Prof. Wesch) have been hooked on the idea of doing an ethnography of YouTube I thought I would start writing down a few ideas toward an ethnography of YouTube …
Communication Section: This would need to be central to the whole project. How do people communicate via YouTube? How does it differ from basic face-to-face communication? And how does this affect the “culture” or the type of “community” that can be formed on YouTube.
- People have to “click” you before they here you speak (so they have a clear choice as to whether or not they will listen to you.
- They can also “click” you off at any time.
- They can’t interrupt you.
- You control the vantage point from which they see you.
- You never know how many people are listening in.
- If you are a savvy video editor you can alter your voice, your looks, and even your environment.
- Communication always takes place under an advertising banner.
- People can hide their identities (especially those who only participate textually)
- anything else?
Religion Section:
This should get us started …
[yt]OwGy2zCKESA[/yt]
and this one …
[video]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qhe1-xWyIwI[/video]
What makes this so powerful? And how does it tie into a “religion” of YouTube. It is part of the “believe” movement on YouTube. Everybody believes in all kinds of different things but everybody thinks everybody else is beautiful because they believe /period/ even if they believe that life is too short to believe in anything. I think there is a connection between this, the communication section, and virtually everything else we might discover about YouTube.
History:
We’ll need a good history section. As you learn of major events in YouTube’s history, post them here. A good overview is here:
http://www.slate.com/id/2151744/?nav=navoa
Economics:
We ought to be able to do something interesting here looking at
- how YouTube makes money & the trials they have gone through trying to make this happen
- how people might be using YouTube to make money (sometimes for charity)
- examining the “gift economy” of ideas and friendship that might be emerging
- others?
Love
There must have been some love affairs started up on YouTube … could be some fascinating research to be done there …
Other possibilities …
Social Structure?
Politics?
Race Relations?
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