You Tube Milestones- Just Because It’s Fun
June 6th, 2010
So, I’m guessing some of you spend at least some time watching YouTube, since it just reached it’s highest level of viewers ever! You may be surprised to learn that YouTube is only five years old – doesn’t it seem much longer? Anyway, today YouTube hit Two billion views per day! Two billion – do the math and it seems like people in the industrialized world are doing an awful lot of YouTube viewing, because you know it’s not some isolated African tribal leader running that tally up.
To celebrate YouTube is launching a channel called the Five Year Channel. On it they will be including videos from all over the planet with folks describing how YouTube has changed their lives. No, I am not being sarcastic, they really feel that they have gotten to know how other people live through YouTube. You can even submit your own story for possible display on the site (you, and apparently 2 billion others). It’s kinda cool, so check it out.
Here’s Conan O’Brien’s Currator Video – it’s kinda funny, he had the same thought I did about people spending way too much time on YouTube!
Enjoy!
June 7th, 2010 at 11:53 am
Thus far, there are four scholarly books available on the subject of YouTube:
The YouTube Reader, (2009) Edited by Snickars and Vonderau.
YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture, (2009) by Burgess and Green.
Video Cultures: Media Technology and Everyday Creativity, (2009) Edited by Buckingham and Willettt.
and this one:
Watching YouTube: Extraordinary Videos by Ordinary People (University of Toronto Press, 2010).
Watching YouTube has been reviewed by the Globe and Mail (“Your Fifteen Minutes Have Arrived” Jenefer Curtis).
Another review can also be found at The Mark (“YouTube in Review”).
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Home Movies in a Global Village
2. The Home and Family on YouTube
3. Video Diaries: The Real You in YouTube
4. Women of the ‘Tube
5. The YouTube Community
6. The YouTube Wars: Elections, Religion, and Armed Conflict
7. The Post-television Audience
Conclusion
– Dr. Strangelove