My YouTube Experience

This is a reflection, from Aug. 22, on my Youtube experience after a little over two months. Not sure if I will continue to youtube. Perhaps I will, but time will tell. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnnVlfr6IVI

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Youtube
• anonymity
• power
• experience
• new technology
• New Media
• Emergent technology
• media ecology

[jogayot]

you could always make a book of these videos.

people need to have something read when they are stuck in traffic...

attaching post mortem of comments could even serve to write paper for some BS or even PhD if united with such useless endeavour as devising artificial philosophical interlocutor based on datamined conversations in alt.sci.philosophy or some other such cyberplaces. btw you did hear about program that wrote pseudo-paper and it even got submitted, though in some very low quality mag.

[josephgelb]

Stay on youtube my friend :)

[1PostPoMoMaN1]

YouTube is not even an experiment. I agree that it facilitates, perhaps even promotes. narcissism. No one is left untouched by this on YouTube.

[1PostPoMoMaN1]

Too bad the closed minded ones stick together too much and don't do self-exploration and other exploration, i.e. the trolls who are not interested in using this make-shift community's full potential. I do agree that here on Youtube there are people that have accepted vast opportunities to learn about this planet's culture, customs, habits, stupidity and genius, this planet's evil (necessary and unnecessary). This planet is a peculiar one.

[randyhelzerman]

(cont) so if somebody objects, its not really obvious whether they are (a) ignorant (b) a troll, or (c) giving feedback you should be listening too. Narcisism: yes, Youtube is the most narcisistic thing every invented :-) Its interesting that you say you want to get rid of some of your old vids......this means that being on youtube has changed you, i.e. given you feedback which you feel is valuable enough to incorporate it.

[randyhelzerman]

(cont, to P.A.) You say something on Youtube: somebody else says "bullshit!!!!" Is the second party at a knowledge/power disadvantage? Dick Cheney said there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. My 13-year old said "bullshit". Cheney probably could have mustered a better case than my 13 year old, and he sure as hell had more power than my 13 year old. But my kid was right, it was bullshit, even though all he could do to justify his view was say "it just makes no sense"(cont)

[randyhelzerman]

(cont, to P.A.) Also, there is more filters protecting them from finding out what people really think of them. I mean, we all pick up some people's books, give them a cursory glance, and say to ourselves "this guys is a total idiot". All youtube does is make it easier for you to overhear those inner voices, which currently are being filtered out. I found interesting your comments on power/knowledge disparities (cont)

[randyhelzerman]

I hear you on the anonymity part, which is why I just put my real name as my user name. I would, however, note that anonymous review is a cornerstone of scientific research: typically you don't know who reviewed your paper, which does allow them more freedom to say what they think about it. Also, I think the reason that more scholars aren't on YouTube is exactly what you said at the begining: they are coming here without the panoply of institutional props to power protecting them. (cont)

[9macrina9]

I hope you get past the youtube initiation rite and keep making vids.....my 2 cents.....c'mon, if I can keep trying, I know you can, eh?

[2bsirius]

Thanks...Hope to read more of what you have to say.