Touch Me Lea Michele Jonathan Groff Skylar Astin

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presented at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008. This was tons of fun to present. I decided to forgo the PowerPoint and instead worked with students to prepare over 40 minutes of video for the 55 minute presentation. This is the result. • more info: http://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 (featuring Us by blimvisible: • Us | Multifandom • 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) • • The Numa Numa quote is from Douglas Wolk (not Gary Wolk as I mistakenly said in the talk).

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