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p2pnet.net news:- When Michael Wesch was writing a paper called Web 2, he decided video blogs change the way we see things. Literally.
An assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University, he realised he could, “really describe these things better visually” than he could on paper. So he made a video. And it clocked up more than two millions views on YouTube.
“In a way, the short clip proved its own argument - that Web 2.0 is linking people in new ways and changing the way ideas are exchanged,” says the Chronicle for Higher Education.
The upshot? Wesch is leading nine undergraduates, “deeper into the world of YouTube to conduct an ethnography of the online community,” says the story, going on:
Their focus is on video bloggers, or vloggers - people who regularly record video diaries of their thoughts and feelings and share them with the world.
All of the students are now making regular vlogs of their own. Posting the videos on YouTube for the world to see is optional, however, and three of the nine students have opted not to share.
Some of those who do post their videos use them to pose questions to other YouTube users. In his first posting, one of the students, Robert Hinderliter, asked whether college students today are more narcissistic than ever, as a recent study found, and, if so, whether YouTube is a contributing factor.
One YouTube user posted a seven-minute video response: “I think I am important,” said the vlogger, who goes by the nickname bbenefiel. “I’m important because we’re all connected, and I think it’s important that everyone has this importance that they’re special or, you know, important to somebody.” About half a dozen others posted text replies.
Wesch will keep on making videos “to supplement his scholarly articles,” the Chronicle has him saying, “noting that he has four or five more in his head”. “These tools are now as easy as learning to write, basically,” he says, “if you get a good video-editing program.”
Also See:
Chronicle for Higher Education - An Anthropologist Explores the Culture of Video Blogging, May 11 issue, 2007
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May 8th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
Excellent video.