Video Sharing

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Video Sharing

• YouTube

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YouTube

• What is YouTube?
• A popular free online video streaming service
  that allows anyone to view and share videos
  uploaded by its members.
• What will I find on YouTube?
• Almost anything
• Community guidelines, Self censoring

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YouTube

• Why do YouTube?
• Digital Ethnography (K-State)
• http//mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p82
• 61 said they tube to connect with others or to
  be social
• 43 said they tube for fun or entertainment
• 41 said they simply like watching YouTube
• 33 said they tube to express their opinions
• 25 said they tube to be creative
• 19 said they tube because they are bored
  (nothing better to do)
• 17 said they tube because it is more real or
  authentic than commercial productions
• 16 said they tube hoping they might become
  famous
• 15 said they tube to see what other people think
  of them
• 12 said they tube because they are addicted

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YouTube

• A Vision of Students Today
• http//youtube.com/watch?vdGCJ46vyR9o

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YouTube

• Before you sign up
• Read the community guidelines.
• Look at the help resources, especially the
  glossary
• Understand privacy controls. (public, friends,
  family, groups, communities, etc.
• Search for your interests or examples say 4-H

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Photo Sharing

• Flickr

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Flickr

• What is it?
• Flickr is a photo sharing Web site and an online
  community where users can share personal photos
  and add metadata (tags and comments) to photos.

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Flickr

• What else can it do?
• Store photos
• Share photos
• Organize photos
• Create groups
• See what others are doing
• Map and comment

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Flickr

• Before you sign up
• Read the community guidelines.
• Look at the help resources, especially the
  glossary
• Understand privacy controls. (public, friends,
  family, groups, communities, etc.
• Determine what you want to do.

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Social Bookmarking

• del.icio.us

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Social Bookmarking

• What is it?
• Social bookmarking is a popular way to store,
  classify, share and search links online.
• Access your favorite Web links from any computer.
• Share your links with family, friends and
  colleagues or larger Web communities.
• Find out what others are interested in.

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Social Bookmarking

• Advantages
• Access get to your bookmarks from anywhere.
• Semantic tagging or developing taxonomies
  (folksonomies). What makes sense to others.
• Rankings available, popularity
• Share bookmarks publicly
• Disadvantages
• Folksonomy tagging has no standard
• Can be abused.

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del.icio.us examples

• Research collect and store online references.
• Categorize tag your collections (recipes,
  cookbooks etc).
• Share your collections with others.
• Form groups (networks) to collaborate.
• Wishlist, podcast, vacation planning,

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del.icio.us tagging

• Tags are one-word descriptors that you can assign
  to your bookmarks to help you organize and
  remember them.
• No Hiearchy, no preconceived lists or standards.
  Chosen by what make sense to you or others. Both
  an advantage and disadvantage.