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...
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 gathering may have been the highest concentration of amazingly creative and concerned global citizens I have ever been around. Hallway conversations were different than your typical conversations. Instead of lots of people saying, 'You know, somebody should ...' there were lots of people saying, 'So I did this, this, and this, and now Im working on doing this, this, and this and we should collaborate ...' In other words, it was a bunch of people blessed with what I once heard Yochai Benkler and Henry Jenkins call critical optimism. Nobody there was blindly optimistic, thinking technology was going to make everything better. They were all continually trying to figure out where we are, where we might be going, and the possible downsides and dangers of new technologies so we can use the new technologies to serve human purposes. In other words, it was my kind of crowd. Special thanks to Micah Sifry and Andrew Rasiej for organizing the conference.
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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.
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!"
What a bunch of self righteous douchebags. None of you are doing anything worth a shit. Your lives are all meaningless but you pretend to have an "impact" to keep yourself from realizing this. You are nothing but a breeder ad war fodder. You will never change anything.
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Artistic! Poetic! Collaborative Beauty!
Living Community! Joy! Love!
Thank You for sharing!
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