Learning the five lessons of YouTube: After trying to teach there, i don't believe the hype

Cinema Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 145-150

  Juhasz, Alexandra ^a  

^a PITZER COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 70349755626     PISSN: 00097101     EISSN: 15272087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cj.0.0098     Document Type: Review

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1. USC's Institute for Multimedia Literacy recently held the conference 24/7: A DIY Media Summit: http://iml.usc.edu/diy/stream
2. Here you could see BlankTV's YouTube Channel, "the Net's largest, d. i. y., free, uncensored punk, ska, hardcore and indie music video site, featuring 3,000 kickass music videos and live clips spanning the past twenty-five years of punk, hardcore, ska, oi, psychobilly, indie and underground music." http://www.youtube.com/user/BlankTV
3. "1983 Islington Squatter Punk Documentary," http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0IZdP3x66Y
4. "Stan Taylor and his physics class at Miles Community College built a hovercraft powered by an average electric leafblower - watch it in action!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQmHqb42qDQ
5. This paragraph holds fifteen links to diverse YouTube videos, including corporate forays into DIY; the Learning from YouTube class page (http://www.youtube.com/user/ mediapraxisme); my "highly viewed" intro to the course; scenes from the media frenzy that surrounded the class; and the students' varied responses: humorous, analytical, and reactionary. For the remainder of this article, if you were online, the bold links would be to the many videos made by myself and my students as part of the course work for the class. Elsewhere, I have attempted to organize this voluminous production, otherwise as overwhelming in quantity and quality as is YouTube, by creating six "tours" found on the class page that cover themes of some relevance to media scholars: education, entertainment, popularity, vernacular, user/owner, community/archive