Blog #11

“An anthropological introduction to youtube” by Mike Wesch was the youtube video our class had to watch. As I started watching it I found it interesting how everything was put into a power point. I didn’t think it was to boring more of an awakening how youtube got started. It’s amazing how it took a short period of time which was 6 months for the website to be so huge and with only three males starting it by just a little video camera. Everyday people just like you and me post up videos and everyone who has access to youtube can watch anything and anyone they can. It is funny how you see other people imitating others and it’s not that there trying to make fun of them there making those people more famous by getting others to listen to their music. This allows us to connect ourselves in ways we never done before and express who we are threw global communications on the webcam. It is interesting how you can connect and talk to other people across the globe and threw other countries and actually talk to them rather than paying a huge amount of money by using a phone. Every time someone blogs about a video it scores a point for that particular video and makes the rankings go higher for the ranking system. There is commercials that take millions to make while people rather use youtube without a cost and still manage to get the top video watched. The videos go through so many different types of websites that it actually makes the video and that normal person become a somewhat of a star. Mike Wesch thinks of media as mediate human relationships. Everything has changed throughout time on how we talk to each other. Before there would be a little type writer thing to send out messages to soldiers that were fighting during wars and there were also messenger boys that would give orders. I find all of this as a way our intelligence has changed and the way we think and come up with new and better ways of thinking.