Viral Video
And thus ends our semester. It has been a pleasure having you all in my class. As a farewell, pick one of the videos below (YouVote!).
1. South Park (Facebook Episode)
2. Virtual Revolution
In Class May 6
YouTube and participatory culture (continued)
Viral Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaruNs_7okY
We have become YouTube susperstars?
The videos from our in-class YouTube project are below. We will track views over the next week and see if any of your videos cross the ‘famous to 15 people’ hypothesis of Jenkins. We will also use the exercise to examine Keen’s comparison of YouTube to Huxley’s infinite monkey’s theorem.
Did you make the ‘greatest video ever’ (to quote J. Navarro)????
In Class May 4th
Viral Video
YouTube and Participatory Culture…
Interview with Henry Jenkins:
From Danica’s Blog:
Facebook vigilante ‘names and shames sex offenders online’
Facebook vigilante ‘names and shames sex offenders online’
A “Facebook vigilante”, Chris Wittwer, has established a website naming 6,000 sex offenders across Britain.
Top Ten Reasons To Quit Facebook
Top Ten Reasons To Quit Facebook
http://bit.ly/9krFMv
Post cases of where the Internet is a Habermasian ‘public sphere’ and where it is not
Post cases of where the Internet is a Habermasian ‘public sphere’ and is not.
Provide links and a short description of why you have chosen the site and made your decision.
For Danica’s and Richard’s Presentation
Facebook Causes: What levels of participation have we had in contributing to the organizations represented on Facebook Causes?
If you are a supporter of any Causes on Facebook, list the organizations here and list what you have done (both online and offline) through the Causes’ Facebook pages.
We will discuss what “actions” are used on Causes, which have an impact, and which are most valued as status markers.
In Class April 29th
Viral Video (selected by Jesus)