YouTube in Context

LFYT Response Tour #4

The more I think about actual learning on YouTube the more discouraged I become. Just like this video shows, its difficult to build knowledge because of YouTubes limits, it disconnect ideas, and create information totally out of context. Maybe the strength of YouTube is that it can be integrated into other media. While I was doing some digging for your family vacation, I found that Google now has user created content on its Google Maps mainly of photos and YouTube videos. This organization seems like a better place to link YouTube videos with outside information, and create some real learning. The videos that appear on Google Maps are all from YouTube, so it might be easier to organize information this way. These videos are still subject to all the same rules as YouTube: some videos are bad or obviously not professional and some commercial. Yet, like Youtube, you still might have a hard time connecting content, and creating coherent thoughts or learning that actually builds on itself, especially since you can post videos on maps that dont seem to have anything to do with the place itself.

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[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.