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Descripción:presented at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008. This was tons of fun to present. I decided to forgo the PowerPoint and instead worked with students to prepare over 40 minutes of video for the 55 minute presentation. This is the result.
more info: http://mediatedcultures.net
0:00 Introduction, YouTube's Big Numbers
2:00 Numa Numa and the Celebration of Webcams
5:53 The Machine is Us/ing Us and the New Mediascape
12:16 Introducing our Research Team
12:56 Who is on YouTube?
13:25 What's on Youtube? Charlie Bit My Finger, Soulja Boy, etc.
17:04 5% of vids are personal vlogs addressed to the YouTube community, Why?
17:30 YouTube in context. The loss of community and "networked individualism" (Wellman)
18:41 Cultural Inversion: individualism and community
19:15 Understanding new forms of community through Participant Observation
21:18 YouTube as a medium for community
23:00 Our first vlogs
25:00 The webcam: Everybody is watching where nobody is ("context collapse")
26:05 Re-cognition and new forms of self-awareness (McLuhan)
27:58 The Anonymity of Watching YouTube: Haters and Lovers
29:53 Aesthetic Arrest
30:25 Connection without Constraint
32:35 Free Hugs: A hero for our mediated culture
34:02 YouTube Drama: Striving for popularity
34:55 An early star: emokid21ohio
36:55 YouTube's Anthenticity Crisis: the story of LonelyGirl15
39:50 Reflections on Authenticity
41:54 Gaming the system / Exposing the System
43:37 Seriously Playful Participatory Media Culture (featuring Us by blimvisible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yxHKgQyGx0)
47:32 Networked Production: The Collab. MadV's "The Message" and the message of YouTube
49:29 Poem: The Little Glass Dot, The Eyes of the World
51:15 Conclusion by bnessel1973
52:50 Dedication and Credits (Our Numa Numa dance)
The Numa Numa quote is from *Douglas* Wolk (not Gary Wolk as I mistakenly said in the talk).
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Descripción:Video Cam Direct Upload
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Descripción:Video Cam Direct Upload
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Descripción:Made this for our INTHROP (introduction to anthropology) subject in DLSU-M. We're communication students from LR17 '08. We filmed for about 3 hours. it took me 4 hours to edit it though.
The Anthropolizers group:
Vince Dizon
Angel Cristobal
Diane Villanueva
Garret Villanueva
Crish Ong
Adrian Bontuyan
enjoy and give comments.
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Descripción:A video I made for my anthropology class covering the events of the 1692 Salem Witch trials and then connecting them to anthropological theories and ideas.
Video Clips are from "In Search of History: The Salem Witch Trials" on the History Channel.
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Descripción:reponse to An anthropological introduction to Youtube for Eng 414
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Descripción:I response to An anthropological introduction to YouTube and a first time vlogger
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Descripción:Click here fro more info and links to the Literature.
Creative Commons Music:
The Orientalist
Album: 1000 Sounds Lotus
Song: Islamatronic cantilliation
http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/3306
Neither this nor that, but both and.
(The Wife) Great website on reading the Qur'an and background:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/
(The Ex-Wife). Everything you wish to know with a slant.
http://www.islam-watch.org/AbulKasem/
Ancient Near Eastern Literature:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~humm/Resources/Texts/
The Nag Hammadi Library
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhlalpha.html
On the Gospel of Barnabas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Barnabas
Text:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/gbar/index.htm
Muslim View Point on the text:
http://www.barnabas.net/
Also look at early Christian theology on ideas of After life, demons, and Judgment.
Also See Ancient Near Eastern use of Blessings and cursing of Hittite and Assyrian Treaties. Compare that to the text of Deuteronomy. Also see Ancient Near Eastern Law codes.
(Christian website but it cover the topic somewhat well):
http://www.theology.edu/egypt3.htm
See the Egyptian view of the Judgment, the idea of weighing of good and bad, The text "The Forty confessions of Matt", also might apply.
Jewish View of Demonology:
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=245&letter=D
Zoroastrianism beliefs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism#Basic_beliefs
The literature of Zoroastrianism:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/zor/index.htm
Ideas of Paradise as Gardens ect. see Epic of Gilgamesh when he visits Utanapishtim.
http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/
Duración:57:03 Vistos:1856 veces
Descripción:"Thinking About Religion, Secularism and Politics"
Talal Asad, Professor of Anthropology, Graduate Center of
the City University of New York
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Professor Talal
Asad who reflects on his life and work as an anthropologist
focusing on religion, modernity, and the complex
relationships between Islam and the West.
Recorded October 2, 2008
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/iis/Kreisler.html
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/
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Descripción:Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars, discusses the effect of music therapy on Parkinson's disease patients. The story related in the video comes from Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Alfred A, Knopf, 2007), Dr. Sacks's latest book. For more information, visit http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/sacks or http://www.oliversacks.com
Duración:01:31 Vistos:65983 veces
Descripción:The Last Movie is a 1971 drama film from Universal Pictures. It was written and directed by Dennis Hopper, who also played a horse wrangler named after the state of Kansas. It also starred Peter Fonda, Henry Jaglom and Michelle Phillips. Production of the movie, which cost $1 million, took place in the film's major setting, Peru.
The movie won the Critics Prize at the Venice Film Festival; despite this, it failed financially and critically after a two-week run at New York City's Cinema 1.[1] Because of its resulting demise, Hopper did not direct again until 1980's TV movie Out of the Blue, and the theatrically-released 1988 drama Colors.
The book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time recounts the film's production in some detail, claiming that the studio was so eager to cash in on the youth market following the success of Easy Rider that they gave Hopper carte blanche, and they were horrified with the results. While the film was a notorious bomb in its day, today it enjoys something of a cult following.
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The film was mostly shot in Cusco and Chinchero in the highlands of Peru. I spent a fair bit of time there in 1990 and I do not think that these places had changed too much since 1971.
I think that a lot of the film budget was probably spent on cocaine and booze. I think this explains the rather odd ending. Anyway, it is a hell of a film from an anthropological perspective.
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Descripción:How far should an anthropologist go in participating with the other culture? When does an anthropologist go too far?
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Descripción:Teaser Trailer for Independent Feature Film "A Genesis Found".
In 1938, while working at an excavation at Moundville Archaeological park, Civilian Conservation Corp cadet John Patton Jr. found the key to our darkest secret-- an anomalous skeleton that's neither animal nor man. Uncertain of it's implications, Patton concealed the secret for forty years-- until finally revealing it to the world in a sensational novel that would make him notorious world wide. Claiming the skeleton
was proof of not only the existence of extraterrestrials, but also of their involvement in the evolution of the human race, the novel ruined not only his accomplished career as an anthropologist, but also the respect and support of his family.
Nearly thirty years later, his grandson Gardner, an anthropology student at the University of Alabama, finds himself forced to come to terms with his grandfather's past, a man he never knew but in who's footsteps he inevitably follows. When his cousin, controversial documentary filmmaker Bart Thompson, arrives at Moundville for a seemingly routine shoot, Gardner is eager to help him and his ragtag crew. He soon learns, however, that Bart isn't there just to shoot a movie-- he wants to find the skeleton their grandfather buried nearly seventy years before, and prove once and for all what he claimed was true.
A Genesis Found is an adventure to the heart of one man's quest to understand his beliefs, his purpose, and his heritage. Intriguing, exciting and original, A Genesis Found is a fast-paced, complex mystery, and a probing study of man's connection to nature, to one another, and to God.
Visit our production blog at:http://agenesisfound.blogspot.com/
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Descripción:Learn more at http://www.collectiveeye.org. A tutorial on how to understand gang graffiti symbols, handshakes, and codes, using as an example the distinction between People versus Folks in the Chicago-area gang lexicon. Excerpted from The Heart Broken in Half, an anthropological documentary about a Chicago street gang, the Latin Kings.
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Descripción:Learn more at http://www.collectiveeye.org. This clip has renowned anthropologist Dwight Conquergood being given a healing ceremony by a husband and wife shaman team in Milwaukee; he speaks to his wife and realizes they are both blind in their left eyes. Excerpted from Between Two Worlds, an anthropological documentary about a Hmong Shaman in America.
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Descripción:I did this video for my anthropology class long time ago. I was short on time so I couldn't fix the small things that could have made this video much better. My mentor, an anthropologist narrates the story with me.
Duración:08:44 Vistos:120 veces
Descripción:Bonnie Glass-Coffin, Ph.D.
Bonnie Glass-Coffin first became widely-known beyond the academic world of anthropology with the publication of The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru, exploring the role of curanderas in their communities. She knew from the ancient Moche and Chimu sculptures of women as healers and shamans, that women have historically played a large role in the healing arts of the region. In writing and research, she explores the concepts of healing, shamanism, sorcery, plant medicines, and gender in Peru and Ecuador. She has published numerous anthropological articles and teaches at Utah State University, where she organized a major conference in 2000, "Body, Mind, and Spirit: Culture and Health in America." She founded and directs an ethnographic field school that meets in Huanchaco, Peru each summer. She has received numerous awards for her research and for her teaching, including the prestigious CASE/Carnegie Foundation award as Teacher of the Year -- and brings an infectious excitement to her ground-breaking work.
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Descripción:I am in the vlogosphere!
Isn't that a brilliant word?
Anyway, so yeah! Awkward introductions: now in written format! I was inspired to make this by the film An Anthropological introduction to YouTube, which is awesome. I'm really fascinated by internet anthropology - it's this wealth of new, interesting cultures just waiting to be explored!
Wow, from zero to nerd in five lines. Impressive!
I'm just going to go now. Bye!
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Descripción:Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars, discusses the story of Tony Cicoria, an American surgeon. After being struck by lightning, and suffering cardiac arrest, Dr. Cicoria recovered completely. He later found, however, that he had "insatiable passion to hear piano music" and later began creating and performing his own compositions. The story related in the video comes from Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Alfred A, Knopf, 2007), Dr. Sacks's latest book. For more information, visit http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/sacks or http://www.oliversacks.com
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Descripción:HEY TROLLS,
Before you do what the rest of you guys are doing and one star this video, you really should know that Inmendham is angry about this for arguments I'm not making in this video. I'm using the word 'naturalism' in this video as Paul Draper uses it in this video:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4u-fLlnn7lE
If you still decide to one star it after understanding that, that's fine. Happy trolling!
Here is EXACTLY what Einstein said when he used that taboo word 'God':
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able to imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem—the most important of all human problems.
The World Pantheist Movement (WPM) is a naturalist organization. They do not believe in God or in anything else phantasmagorical. Check them out for yourself:
http://www.pantheism.net/
For more on Stan Wagon's puzzles:
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:BxkDHXk0fPsJ:discovermagazine.com/2001/dec/bogglers+stan+wagon+bicycle+discover&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=uk&client=firefox-a
CousinoMacul pointed me to this interesting short video of the square wheeled bike in action:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LgbWu8zJubo
The bit of the second part of Inmendham's last three part ad hominem tirade against me contained a pretty ridiculous misconception about what naturalism is. If he'd taken just a minute to do a wiki search for the term naturalism, this is what he would have found:
"'nature is all there is and all basic truths are truths of nature.'" (...)Another basic form, called methodological naturalism, is the epistemology and methodological principle which forms the foundation for the scientific method. It requires that scientific hypotheses are explained and tested by reference to natural causes and events. Yet another form of naturalism is the idea that the methods of science should be used in philosophy. Science and philosophy, according to this view, are said to form a continuum and, hence, the same methods apply to both. W.V. Quine, George Santayana, and others have advocated this view. Any method of inquiry or investigation or any procedure for gaining knowledge that limits itself to natural, physical, and material approaches and explanations can be described as naturalistic."
If he'd done that he wouldn't sound so absurd and abusive. But that doesn't seem to bother him too much!
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