YouTube in Context

[NealJ7K]

This video brings up an important issue about how the core structure of YouTube, that it groups all videos together, is its strength and its weakness. It provides democracy in videos, promoting freedom of content, yet it limits people's access to these videos by making them sift through millions of videos with no deep meaning before they can access those select few with true meaning.

[MediaPraxisme]

CONVERGENCE WRITING: As Henry Jenkins points out, new media allows for writing that gains its impact by moving across platforms and building upon the power of ready-made media already encrusted with meaning (and ownership). So easy, even children can join the fun.

[MediaPraxisme]

User created multi-media knowledge is "disorderly, undisciplined, unruly" according to jenkins but also not about the possession of knowledge but the .social process of acquiring it

[KLoCTube]

I liked the video because it points out one of the main hold backs to YouTube becoming an educational site. The setup of YouTube makes it difficult to find exactly what you are looking for because to find it you have to sort through random "junk." It often times is difficult to figure out how that "junk" is even relevant to the topic you are searching for.