Heres some literature that Ive found, I still need to edit some of the references, so they are in a more professional format.
1. Man-Computer Symbiosis J. C. R. Licklider IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics, volume HFE-1, pages 4-11, March 1960
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html
2. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush "As We May Think" Vannevar Bush
3. http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html Douglas Engelbart Mother of All Demos
4. AUGMENTING HUMAN INTELLECT: A Conceptual Framework
By Douglas C. Engelbart
October 1962
http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html
5. Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Virtual Frontier
http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/
6. Tools For Thought, Howard Rheingold
http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/
7. The Secret Strategies Behind Many "Viral" Videos
http://techcrunch.com/2007/11/22/the-secret-strategies-behind-many-viral-videos/
8. Viral videos publicize- but infringe
Scott D. Marrs and John W. Lynd/Special to The National Law Journal
May 8, 2006
http://www.bmpllp.com/files/1155314768.pdf
9. Fogg, B.J. (2008). “Mass interpersonal persuasion: An early view of a new phenomenon”. In: Proc. Third International
Conference on Persuasive Technology, Persuasive 2008. Berlin: Springer.
http://www.bjfogg.com/mip.pdf
10. How to Get Popular on Youtube (Without Any Talent)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/965581/How-to-Get-Popular-on-YouTube-Without-Any-Talent-old-version
11. video interview of Sam Tsui, maker of popular viral video
http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,50007231001_1939310,00.html
12."Yes We Can": How Online Viewership, Blog Discussion and Mainstream Media Coverage Produced a Viral Video Phenomenon by Kevin Wallsten
http://74.125.155.132/scholar?q=cache:hElxYFRo8a0J:scholar.google.com/+viral+video&hl=en&as_sdt=2000
13. Lucas Hilderbrand, Youtube: Where Cultural Memory and Copyright Converge, Film Quarterly Fall 2007, Vol. 61, No. 1, Pages 48–57 , DOI 10.1525/fq.2007.61.1.48
14. McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.
other good reads by McLuhan
-The Gutenberg galaxy
-The medium is the massage
15. Postman, Neil. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.
16. J. C. R. Licklider and Robert Taylor, E. Herbert,"The Computer as a Communication Device"
17.CyberSociety 2.0: revisiting computer-mediated communication and community, Steve Jones
18. Digital anonymity and the law: tensions and dimesions, by C. Nicoll, Corien Prins, J. E. J. Prins, M. J. M. Dellen
19. Assessing Anonymous Communication on the Internet: Policy Deliberations, Kling R., Lee Y-C, Teich A, Frankel M. S., The Information Socity, Volume 15, Number 2, April 1999, pp79-90(12)
20. "Virtual-Communities, Virtual Settlements and Cyber-Archaeology: A Theoretical Outline., Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 3, 1997 New York: Viking Press
21. Aycock, Alan. "Technologies of the Self: Foucault and Internet Discourse." Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 1, no. 2 (1995)
22. Meyrowitz, J. No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
23. Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
24. Douglas C Engelbart, "Intellectual Implications of Multi-Access Computing" Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Conference on Multi-Access Computer Networks, April 1970.
25. Berners-Lee, Tim. Weaving the Web, San Francisco: HarperCollins (1999)
Monday, February 22, 2010
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Going viral!?!
Viral video? A video that becomes popular due to sharing of that video amongst individuals through various online methods. Viral videos are a relatively new, well as new as the internet has gone 'public.' Most viral videos are comical clips that people post online. People then watch this clip and decide to share. Most videos that go viral are created to be viewed by a very small group of close friends and family. Yet, even with this small audience in mind these videos blow up without the creator meaning for this to happen. Take the Star Wars Kid
, do you think that he wanted to be a viral video celebrity when he posted a clip of him acting as if he is fighting a hundred foe. But his video is fun. When you watch it you get the feeling that in that kids head he is fighting a hundred foe and having an epic battle that only he can 'see'.
A great aspect of video in the ever growing digital environment that we exist, is that, what you create can easily be changed or shared by anyone that is connected. Thats why many videos go viral, due to the ease of remixes such as these clips of Star Wars Kid:
heres one that someone did with clay figures:
Viral video's and their remixes showcase the new interaction that people can have with the media generated on the medium.
As the multi-million dollar entertainment industry tries to fight this new 'sharing' culture of the younger generations with the use of their money to fight the change rather than to adapt to it. A better strategy would seem to use the millions they are spending in court on reinvesting their money back into their business because the internet was made to share information to advance research for the DARPA program in the 60's. The way they shared data was similar to torrent's, the difference was that there weren't thousands of computers to utilize in order to speed the process of sharing packets of information up. Copyright infringement is a big deal, most people want credit for their creativity and want to keep it theirs, but most of the cases that are being brought to court are against average people who generally have no motive other than to share what they view as quality material.
Many have thought about the future of this medium, they are realizing that it no longer takes millions to produce an advertising campaign, promote an artist, a movie, or any type of product. Instead it takes a camcorder, a computer, connection to the net and some editing software to create something that can be distributed amongst millions of people. Many large companies have started to realize this and are now doing viral video advertising. The process is different than advertising in more traditional mediums. These ad campaigns are a crap shoot, in most cases.
So as we slowly adapt to these changes they are trying to figure out the 'formula' to exploit the medium in their favor. For my research I want to produce a video and try to make it go viral by utilizing all the various methods that are out there to do so. Such as hiring business that will get you thousands of views I want to document the process and see what happens if I can make a viral video and become part of 'popular' culture. There are many sides to what happens when you go viral and I want to explore the viral craze by actually making Livin in Dubtown's video go viral.
Along with making this video I want to capture what life is like in a small town, since many people describe it as mundane. I lived in Wamego and I use to feel the same, but as I recollect with friends about our time growing up I realize that our life was far from mundane. Many videos online contrast what people actually say about living in a small town small town. As Ive watched many videos I notice the varying perceptions of people from a small town especially the whole small town v. city life.
Heres some vlogs of people from small towns, talking about a small town, or taping their activities in a small town:
, do you think that he wanted to be a viral video celebrity when he posted a clip of him acting as if he is fighting a hundred foe. But his video is fun. When you watch it you get the feeling that in that kids head he is fighting a hundred foe and having an epic battle that only he can 'see'.
A great aspect of video in the ever growing digital environment that we exist, is that, what you create can easily be changed or shared by anyone that is connected. Thats why many videos go viral, due to the ease of remixes such as these clips of Star Wars Kid:
heres one that someone did with clay figures:
Viral video's and their remixes showcase the new interaction that people can have with the media generated on the medium.
As the multi-million dollar entertainment industry tries to fight this new 'sharing' culture of the younger generations with the use of their money to fight the change rather than to adapt to it. A better strategy would seem to use the millions they are spending in court on reinvesting their money back into their business because the internet was made to share information to advance research for the DARPA program in the 60's. The way they shared data was similar to torrent's, the difference was that there weren't thousands of computers to utilize in order to speed the process of sharing packets of information up. Copyright infringement is a big deal, most people want credit for their creativity and want to keep it theirs, but most of the cases that are being brought to court are against average people who generally have no motive other than to share what they view as quality material.
Many have thought about the future of this medium, they are realizing that it no longer takes millions to produce an advertising campaign, promote an artist, a movie, or any type of product. Instead it takes a camcorder, a computer, connection to the net and some editing software to create something that can be distributed amongst millions of people. Many large companies have started to realize this and are now doing viral video advertising. The process is different than advertising in more traditional mediums. These ad campaigns are a crap shoot, in most cases.
So as we slowly adapt to these changes they are trying to figure out the 'formula' to exploit the medium in their favor. For my research I want to produce a video and try to make it go viral by utilizing all the various methods that are out there to do so. Such as hiring business that will get you thousands of views I want to document the process and see what happens if I can make a viral video and become part of 'popular' culture. There are many sides to what happens when you go viral and I want to explore the viral craze by actually making Livin in Dubtown's video go viral.
Along with making this video I want to capture what life is like in a small town, since many people describe it as mundane. I lived in Wamego and I use to feel the same, but as I recollect with friends about our time growing up I realize that our life was far from mundane. Many videos online contrast what people actually say about living in a small town small town. As Ive watched many videos I notice the varying perceptions of people from a small town especially the whole small town v. city life.
Heres some vlogs of people from small towns, talking about a small town, or taping their activities in a small town:
Thursday, February 4, 2010
link
As we talked about in class Im going to produce a rap video to the song Livin in Dub Town by the Infant Stompers and try to make it go viral. So heres the link to The Infant Stompers myspace page for those interested.
http://www.myspace.com/theinfantstompersmusic
http://www.myspace.com/theinfantstompersmusic
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