If you want to understand... who digital natives are and what they're doing online how community is experiencing a rebirth online how identity-exploration can be a collective experience and how that can be therapeutic and maybe even why YouTube is the No. 1 site among 2-to-11-year-olds for video viewing (see this)...pour yourself a tall glass of iced tea or something and watch "An Anthropological … [Read more...] about Watch this video, parents
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For youngest Web users, YouTube beats Disney
We're talking about the Disney Channel Web site, here, not the Disney Channel on TV, but this is still interesting: Among 2-to-11-year-olds, YouTube was No. 1 for online video viewing and Disneychannel.com a distant second, reports CNET, citing Nielsen figures. For YouTube, the number of 2-to-11-year-old visitors in April was 4.1 million; for Disneychannel.com, it was 1.3 million. NickJr was also … [Read more...] about For youngest Web users, YouTube beats Disney
Participatory justice
NPR aired a story about a shop owner whose security cam recorded a thief scooping up and making off with a couple of watches. "After filing a police report, [the retailer] handed out fliers with the suspects' pictures and posted the surveillance tape on YouTube." Whether the motive is public humiliation or catching the thief, the Internet is increasingly being used to "right" wrongs. To law … [Read more...] about Participatory justice
Analog adults, digital kids clash
One night recently there was a light snowfall in the Washington, D.C., area and some high school students apparently felt they should have a snow day. When it didn't happen, one high school senior reportedly took it upon himself to get on the phone and call his school system's chief operating officer to find out why school wasn't shut down for the day. The COO's wife picked up the phone. She was … [Read more...] about Analog adults, digital kids clash
How YouTube stardom works
Of course "stardom" on the social Web is different from mass-media stardom. Take bands in MySpace, for example - fame is more dispersed but intimate. Artists are closer to their fans, who do the real marketing (in a "viral," word-of-mouth way that has a lot more influence than the polished but less personal marketing of a record label). Income is different too - coming in more in piecemeal fashion … [Read more...] about How YouTube stardom works