Reading Response #6
1. YouTube is a digital writing environment
in terms that users can upload videos where they can carry valuable information
for any audience. It is a perfect medium for spreadable media, which is a
necessary factor in a digital writing environment. The author shares that
YouTube has been beneficial as an educational tool. Many users upload videos
that teach people around the world about anything that people can think about.
YouTube is similar to Snap Chat, a digital writing environment, because people
are connected globally and become aware of the different cultures from a visual
medium. YouTube also uses visual representation such as videos and has a
participatory culture. This participation includes posting comments on how the
people felt about the video and can share their likings. The people can report
videos that they feel are morally incorrect. An activity similarly seen in
Wikipedia and there is a check and balance so the Tragedy of the commons can be
controlled. The social media, YouTube, can be understood because it contains a
search engine where users can find something specific or want a general list of
a certain topic. Depending on what the users search there are videos posted
that may interest them like how Netflix tries to give users recommendations of
what movies they want to see from how they rate certain movies or like Pandora
where it contains a history of music they like.
2. Engaging with television texts in a
social context constitute skilled labor because we are actively watching and we
absorb content from commercials. There is a connection between work and
commodity. Work is seen in doing something that is displeasing to a person, but
work can be a commodity and enjoyable. According to the author, work is done
even when watching the television. Between each show there are commercials that
target a specific audience such as the History Channel where the advertisers
target men who do not watch sports channels or those who are not on public
television as much. We become the workers and advertise their product because
specifically commercial are replayed so much that we have them memorized. One
constraint is maintaining the “workers” engagement or attention span, but to be
a skilled labor there needs to be some participation in social context. For
instance, shows such as Dancing with the
Stars and the Voice people need
to vote for their favorite competitors. There is a skilled labor because there
is an engagement through voting and in the show Voice people can tweet their comments on the television. An example
of taking time to share our own perspective of each singer and give our own
opinions.
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