AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION TO YOUTUBE

We all know the well known website by the name of YouTube. We were instructed to watch a video which was titled An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube. In this video an anthropologist by the name of Mike Wesch begins to describe how YouTube started off and how big it has become. He also describes how much of an impact it has had on universal communication. People around the world are not only using YouTube just for amusement but also using it in a form of communication. Mike describes how YouTube has overcome TV viewing, he says it is because YouTube has no producers, no script writers it is original made. Mike Wesch gives an example of a video entitled Numa Numa. In this video there is a kid by the name of Gary Broslam who lip sings a song and gives a lot of facile expressions, and over all is just showing his enjoyment to the song. This video receives a lot of views and remakes all over the world begin to be created. This is just one of many remakes on YouTube he always gives the example of a well known rap artist by the name of Soulja Boy. He shows us how YouTube gave Soulja Boy his star presence. YouTube he claims has given us a new way of seeing the web it links us in a new way and every year a new device is created to link us even closer as a people. This to me is very interesting how the web can create such a big impact on the world, we can see what or neighbors across the way are doing. In example videos from China, Spain, and Brazil can be viewed and etc. Throughout the video he gives examples of videos that have had an impact on YouTube worldwide. He also has a class that is experimenting with YouTube, for a certain number of days they have to record a YouTube video on themselves to get out to the worldwide web. The class even recorded a video on themselves to let YouTube viewers know what they are doing. I agree with Mike Wesch that YouTube and other broadcasting sites help the media and help us in general as far as communication goes.