Social Media for Social Change

Using YouTube Videos

Posted on Monday, February 16th, 2009 at 9:31 am by Jethro in research | 1 Comment

So it turns out that using YouTube videos is very easy if you have a built in camera on the Mac. Although it took some time the first couple times, the ones I did this morning were available within minutes. I have included the two links below, one is a reading of some comments on philly.com form this morning (it is about 3 and a half minutes) and the other is a half minute. Both star me and in watching it reminded me that I need a haircut.

philly.com Clarke on Casino thread

limited vocabulary, monologue

One Response to “Using YouTube Videos”

1. # On February 16th, 2009 at 10:43 am Jeremy wrote:

   (Jethro, I took the liberty of embedding the videos within your post in addition to the link you provided.)

   I dig the limited vocabulary monologue and would like to start experimenting with this as a dialogue. (iChat can record video chats, so this would be an easy thing to begin and document.) The challenge with limiting vocabulary like this is too maintain meaningful communication that does not merely become a formal play with words. What is the nature of that communication — exchange of idea(s) — with each other and can it be a discussion or a debate?

   Alie’s previous post on limited vocabulary is instructive: this — ; ) — is understood to convey a smile and a wink and, therefore, a knowing look that communicates a subtlety that language alone may not be able to. For our purposes, perhaps the most effective limited vocabulary would be a combination of words and symbols and gestures. We should be able to easily run through several iterations of limited vocabularies easily enough.