September 30th, 2009
Unga på nätet
Slide show about unga på nätet (in Swedish)
Unga på nätet 090924
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May 6th, 2009
Lily Allen is my new hero
I was working on a thesis chapter and listening to Allen’s Fuck You when a tweet for this video popped up.
Best collab ever.
September 12th, 2008
Comment Snob
Have you heard? About youtube comment snob It is an extension to firefox that edits out any comments that contain alternative or misspellings, all caps, no caps, or alternative punctuation. From a sociolinguistic perspective, this is just absurd. Standardized language is a fairytale. It is a norm that can be used to reject alternative langauges and dialects. Of course, it is much more complicated than that – especially if you take into account what is considered prestigious in different communities of practice. Still, this plugin makes me sad. It is not taking away offensive comments, it is taking away anything alternative.
August 14th, 2008
Making our children pirates
Elza had a wonderful quote by Lawernce Lessig on her blog today,
We can’t kill… only criminalise, we can’t stop… only drive under ground, we can’t make our kids passive again, we can only make them “pirates”. And in a democracy we ought to be able to do better.
And yes, we should do better. We must find alternative business models. But you know this.
Btw, if you are interested in youth culture online, I can highly recommend her site!!
August 6th, 2008
What is online community?
This video popped up in my feed reader this morning. Michele of the Bamboo Project posted a YouTube collaboration video where people say in a word or two what online community means to them. It repeats a lot of the romantic hype of online community, but in a creative and convincing way. The end focus on the family and friend aspects of online community. And oh, with a meme! (which I almost wrote about, but I won’t because it is worth waiting to watch!) Ending on a meme is a great example of what online community really is. Yes, there are friendships and a sense of togetherness, but removing a bit of the romanitc hype, it is also highly thematically based and fluid. People move around, visit their favorite haunts, but often remain free-movers – not tied down to one group, rather to themes and interests. At least, that is what online community is to me. And that is what keeps me coming back.
August 2nd, 2008
On viddler…
While my title sounds like a call to one of Santa’s reindeer, it is actually a new (to me) video sharing site. The interface offers many more features that I find interesting than YouTube, and I love that the comments are pop-ups on the timeline.
(This is a video from a 5 things you didn’t know about me contest. Loved it!)
The main difference I have found between the content on Viddler and YouTube is commentary versus creation. Maybe I feel that Viddler is more commentary/direct-into-a-camera type of video because I have not played with it enough. It could also be that YouTube hosts a *much* larger community. The affordances of the two tools do not lend themselves to different communities (keep in mind I have only played with Viddler), although the amount of comments that YouTube videos can get may discourage comment pop-ups behavior.
Another interesting thing I found on Viddler is an uploader who said that she was told she was not supposed to edit these videos (which may be one reason for the difference in video types between Viddler and YouTube). This unedited ethos was part of the initial blogging wave, as well. I wonder how wide spread it is on Viddler? It is not an overt message on the site, but maybe the community lets you know asap?
The interface on Viddler is great. Time to play a bit more and see what the community is doing!
This site is one researcher's wanderings through participatory media. Focusing on youth created media, I will use this blog to document my study of YouTube and related video hosting sites.
