20. Digital Ethnography of YouTube Project Blog http://mediatedcultures.net/youtube.htm YouTube http://uk.youtube.com/results?search_query=ksudigg&search =
44. publicATION ‘ On the Web, the personal function of ‘discovering’ (or at least clarifying) one’s thoughts, feelings and identity is fused with the public function of publishing these to a larger audience than traditional media have ever offered’ (Chandler, 1998).
45. TECHNOLOGIES OF THE SELF Homepages can be seen as what Michel Foucault describes as ‘technologies of the self’ ‘ which allow us to transform the very way we think of ourselves and to change ourselves to who we really want to be’ (Chandler, 1998).
47. communication media sharing play connectivity feeds and metadata global participation user-generated content
48. what is new? availability and access, opening up of many-to-many communication, using a dynamic form of publishing that can constantly be ‘under construction’, not fixed in print on a shelf.
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51. Problems that can occur when people make their provate lives public? http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0521081myspace3.html
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