Friday 7 March 2008

YouTube: A Mirror?

YouTube is really a fascinating online environment. I often use it for finding good interviews for my undergraduate students, searching for cartoons from my childhood, remembering great goals from the football history etc. However, through a specific prism YouTube is worrying ... I try to build this paradoxical prism of values by pasting links below. If we understand YouTube as a product or "a mirror" - as Andrew Keen would put it - of our political, economic and cultural system we should probably be very worried ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgru4doIm_k&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnzwgBrIr1s

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