What is Participatory Culture and how reliable and respected is YouTube? Notes from this week's lecture:
- Participatory culture means members feel some degree of social connection with one another and they feel their contributions matter
- Culture perpetuates and is meaningful for a long period of time
- Simply blogging isn't participatory culture - only if it engages with an audience is it considered participatory
- How many YouTube clips have you watched and instantly thought it was fake?
- How many comments from viewers repulse you? Some people have nothing better to do that to leave derogatory comments for your video
- Do you respect education videos over amateur funny videos? Or do you enjoy them all equally?
Reflection:
Even though I've been blogging for years, for the first year or so I was blogging to nobody. As soon as my blog posts began getting comments, shares and likes, did I consider it participatory. I now have an audience who interacts with my blog (as well as my Facebook status updates and tweets. If nobody is reading them - how can it be considered participatory?
Reference:
Leaver, T. (2012) ... Topic 2.2: YouTube & Participatory Culture [Lecture]. Retrieved from http://dbs.ilectures.curtin.edu.au/lectopia/casterframe.lasso?fid=794620&cnt=true&usr=not-indicated&name=not-indicated
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