The Machine is (Changing) Us: YouTube and the Politics of Authenticity

Whatever it takes.

This was AMAZING, brilliant - esp. the analysis of whatever from "what-EVER" to whatever is needed! LOVE THIS & continue to thrive off you work as a professor & still feel limited by the constraints of my training & the linear structures & paradigms of teaching & learning particularly in the humanities. Where r faculty congregating, sharing, collaborating & pushing the envelope together online. Signed lonely prof-wit-ability which I hope makes for more profitability for us and our students.

cried at 30:00

Very interesting update to Neil Postman regarding YouTube culture. I'd love to see the same sort of analysis on other social media such as Twitter and FaceBook, which each have their own distinctive characteristics.

The cold disconnected hatred that is encouraged by anonymity is chilling. I've seen it in every medium where people hide behind masked identities. Definitely changes the nature of interaction and discourages authenticity, while ironically also making us freer to disclose.

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- BRILLIANT
- INSPIRING
- YET SO SIMPLE

Fantastic video!!
-been a blogger for a while, and understood about persona I took on as a member of the community -- never really thought about it like that though.

The part about writing on the hands gave me chills.

Excellent video!

this guy is a leader :)

Interesting... The same people who have ambitions for one world, peace and other admirable quests. Will be the first to protest at global trade conferences and summits. They feel like uniting thoughts in this medium means it must be a right solution - but sounds more like 1st world religion where the end game is just ignorance of what the problems/solutions are...

That list bit on anonymity and YouTube's ignorant users brought back memories of John Gabriel's total fuck wad theory. If you don't know what I'm talking about Google image search John Gabriel's total fuckwad theory.