Hi everyone, thanks for your great comments. Jeremy raises an important question about the definition of social media, and the extent to which platforms like YouTube constitute social media. You may have seen this video before, and if not I think it is a fun way to think about the social effects and relationships that YouTube at least initially promoted. Mike Wesch argues pretty convincingly that YouTube began as a profoundly social medium–“a celebration of new forms of communities…allowing us to connect in ways that we have never connected before”. Has it been able to persist in this way? Watch the first 5 minutes at least if you have time, and let me know if you agree…
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I actually watched the whole thing, and I agree that he makes a very compelling case for YouTube as a social medium. Even more so, I think his point that we must consider the entire web as a media-scape that is social is very intriguing.
Hi there,
I watched 5 minutes of this video.
For sure, Youtube – when compared with TV – is a social kind of network since it allows for user-generated contributions to go viral and become noticed in other networks such as Facebook and also the conventional TV-based mass-media.
However, Youtube still shares TV’s asynchronous nature and a sense of passive-detachment from the original content contributor (when considering that socialization is usually more realtime than a BBS board common throughout the rest of the internet)…
Perhaps if Youtube started using live webcam feeds between strangers (not unlike Chat-Roulette but with more moderation via subscribed channels) then it would count as a synchronous social network like say, Facebook is.
Two thumbs up. Thanks for this, Kate.