August 13, 2008

Connecting more than information...

Brilliant video: an anthopological introduction to YouTube.

For anyone looking to understand the growth and role of YouTube (and other social media technologies) in our world today.  From the guy who brought us "The machine is using us" video and one of the earliest to run a digital ethnography study of YouTube.

"I think of [media] as mediating human relationships... when media changed, human relationships changed..."

Hat Tip: Johnnie Moore

Aug 13, 2008 10:05:00 AM | Social Media, Social Networking, TV / Video, Web 2.0, Word of Mouth

2 Comments

Paul McEnany

Holy shit, dude. I'm glad I finally watched that. It's not too often you get chills during a presentation, especially when you're not even there, but that was incredible.

Posted by: Paul McEnany | August 16, 2008 at 03:20 PM

Bernice

Incredible. Thanks for sharing.

Posted by: Bernice | August 26, 2008 at 02:06 PM

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