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The Machine is (Changing) Us: YouTube and the Politics of Authenticity

presented at the 2009 Personal Democracy Forum at Jazz at Lincoln Center. About 10 minutes of it is a minor update (rehash) of An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube, but the rest is new. The g...  
 
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LemmingLegion (22 hours ago) Show Hide
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That's categorized us all just nicely.
And in terms that everybody can understand.
Good work mike!
allcingeye (1 day ago) Show Hide
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Wahteevr you do Believe your TV Nwes it is always
Right and will never lie, to you. All injections are good for you.The deaths that happen will not happen to you,you are special. Remember keep eating junk food you are what you eat. and a happy
xmas Keep buying rubbish you love it. your Government Know you love rubbish other wise
they would not be there.
IExposeMormonism (1 day ago) Show Hide
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Here we are in 2009:: Students being tazered at Univ' with other students cheering because the tazered loud mouth dared to say "911 was an inside job and a media job". people being shot to death because the cop made a mistake and pulled a gun and not a tazer. A culture so inured to sleep it refuses to look at what happened on 911. Physics sleeps soundly even at Universities. So, much for the '60's. But don't worry, Everything is OK
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It's so clear.
For those who listen & learn.
Peace
oblio1000 (1 day ago) Show Hide
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1 "Whatever it takes" is a mantra from under-educated middle-management in the US. Whatever it takes was and is too expensive. It involves throwing money/labor at any problem.
2 "Whatever you think" is developing - Neohumanism.  .
Samvelxxx (3 days ago) Show Hide
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Mike, whatever you do - DO NOT WATCH your own videos, you might shit in your pants.
You are so smart that you might get scared just by listening to yourself.
Diannameineke (5 days ago) Show Hide
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Davina from Big brother UK leaked tape:
watch?v=m1UheQwJs3g
BassinJason702 (1 week ago) Show Hide
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Mike has done it again. = D
seanne85 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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this is the first comment i have ever posted on YouTube. I guess i have never watched anything worth posting about. that was really interesting, thank you.
funtimeeffect (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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I decided to comment before I knew what I was going to say. I paused to reflect upon this action, and determined that I am neither commenting to posit my existence, nor to seek help in defining my own identity. Rather, I'm attempting to answer a question, to respond to a call, to turn a one-way conversation into a two-way conversation. If the same thing could be done with the TV, I'd tell Bill O'Reilly that he's an ass, but to you, I say, "Great presentation!"

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