Juhasz Final Video

I fail at things YouTube--to summarize, be sincere or funny, or gain popularity--as I reflect on what we have learned this semester.

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[lickitysplt03]

omg BORING!!!! ima gonna go watch soulja boy or sumthin like that! peace out peeps ;)

[MediaPraxisme]

LOL

[salimshady0]

It marks shorter attention spans, obsession with the mundane in terms of what we find comedic. Is this all bad though? I don't think it is necessarily. Its bridging the generations in such an important way, and i find this beneficial.

[MediaPraxisme]

salimshady0: how is this bridging generations? creating a culture of shared songs and catch phrases? what of community and critique?

[chasea98]

I think you offer a necessary corrective to all the overly celebratory rhetoric surrounding the implementation of "new" media technologies into the classroom. I'm wondering how useful a historical study on how "old" media such as television (PBS specials, news reports) and film (documentary, video art) have worked or "failed" within higher education in the past, as it seems this would inform/qualify the flawed notion that ever newer technologies will ultimately lead to progress.

[remotedevice]

Great investigation, Alex!

The discussion about the potential risks of academic engagement with/on YouTube got me thinking about hoaxes, viral marketing and astroturfing. Maybe the most radical threat that YouTube poses isn't the way it degrades certain forms of discourse, but rather how it enmeshes all communications -- genuine or not -- within a populist Everyman vernacular, the perfect disguise for the praxis of sales...

[lalakiwi1]

This an interesting experiment on classroom methodology within the frame of entertainment and the larger realm (role) of academia in the YouTube setting. In searching through the various recorded classes and clips pertaining to this course- the idea of the syllabus represented as an artifact brought a number of questions to mind with the larger structure of academia and its "texts" in translating on screen. How does the walls of academia extend their core?

[trholland]

Great points on what "new" works work on youtube, namely commercial-like bits in a corporate atmosphere. Does this temper the fervor for implementing new technologies in pedagogy? It seems the euphoric incorporation of tools like youtube in the classroom may prove to be antithetical to our projects and lives as academics in the US. Should we adapt to an entertainment-based culture in order to survive within this new media milieu? Great class/topic/method though, just fails at being dumb!

[AWFFB]

Difficult to remain within the 500 character limit: How can academia incorporate or rather make use of an entertainment-based technology without remaining an enclave that reveals its members immediately through their particular linguistic style (including myself I guess)? It would be interesting to know how much this seminar changed the student's relation to youtube-posting and if it just stayed an academic task to fulfill.

[AWFFB]

I see the discrepancy mentioned between a wordy lecture based on development and elaboration versus the speed-efficient seeking summarizing of youtube. Its difficult to incite interest for a video recording (i.e. the particular need for the visual or even audiovisual, what differs in the message from a text here?) of a lecturer standing a bit too far away from the camera, seemingly disembodied, while a certain visceral closeness would have been what could have made one difference here.

[scottfunkhouser]

Quack, quack.

[MediaPraxisme]

klr02004: I think your comments are well-founded. But the structure of the course mirrored that of the site, where non-specialists or authorities have equal voice in representation, education, everything. Why would this have gone better at UCB? Are you making a comment about access and democracy?