Youtube video

Youtube's big numbers:

• Youtube had formed more hours of programming in six months than during ABC's full 60 year run.

• Youtube generates 9232 hours a day compared to the 385 on tv channels

• 200,000 are 3 minute videos

• 88% is original content

Numa Numa and webcams:

• The person found the song from a viral video (the internet)

• The 2004 song originated from Europe

• An estimated statistic for the amount of view times for the video is around 600,000,000

• The first video on youtube was a webcam video

Machine is using us:

• Every six months a tool that connects us in a new way

• The music is from someone in Africa

• was first shown on digg.com ( a User Generated Filter)

• it was tagged on a website called delicious ( user generated organization)

• user generated commentary (on blogs)- technocratic checks how many people are blogging the video

• the video was number one during superbowl

• within months it was translated in 12 languages

Research team:

• All students

• they make notes on youtube videos

Who's on youtube:

• over 25% of all videos has someone 35 or over

• the same amount for teenagers

What's on youtube:

• alot of song on youtube about youtube

• the most commonly uploaded videos on YouTube is home videos e.g. Charlie bit my finger which was redone over 2,000 times

• 15% of YouTube videos are remixes or remakes of other videos

• soulja boy's first internet video makes him famous

• addressed to people why?

• 10,000 of the 200,000 videos a day are addressed to the YouTube community

• Understanding new forms of community through Participant Observation

• They joined in etc, saw what it was like talking to a PC

Youtube as a community:

• You don't know who you're talking to

• first vlogs:

• each are repeated once

• The webcam: Everybody is watching where nobody is:

• feels like the most private place but actually the most public

• Re-cognition and new forms of self-awareness:

• Whatever you post you now that someone will eventually see it

• replay offers more understanding that first play

• The Anonymity of Watching YouTube: Haters and Lovers:

• You are anonymous so no own knows who's watching

Aesthetic Arrest:

• People can do what they want when watching a video

• allowed to express themselves without having to worry about the norms they must follow in society

Connection without Constraint:

• YouTube offers connection with how that person wants to connect

• Free Hugs: A hero for our mediated culture:

• 30,000,000 views

• copied into hundreds of videos

YouTube Drama: Striving for popularity:

• if you want to be seen from the 200,000 videos a day you need to do something unordinary

• you need to catch the editor's eyes if you want to appear in the featured page

• first came in on 2006

• An early star: emokid21ohio

• was fake

• came in 2006

• YouTube's Authenticity Crisis: the story of LonelyGirl15

• people suspected she was fake

• she was fake made by three writers

• actually a soap opera