1. Sharing Parenthood:
Images of Children on
Katie Elson Anderson
Rutgers University
PCA/ACA, April 13, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/AndersonPCA20
12
2. ๏ง Founded in 2005
๏ง Purchased by Google in 2006
๏ง Over 4 billion videos viewed per day
๏ง 800M unique visitors monthly
๏ง More than 1 trillion views in 2011.
๏ง 60 hours of video uploaded every minute
๏ง โBroadcast Yourselfโ
YouTube Statistics
3. Home Video
๏ง Shared with family and friends
๏ง Amateur
๏ง Babies (capture changes)
๏ง Special occasions to mundane,
everyday events
๏ง Previously contained within private
circles
4. Technology
๏ง Film (8mm, 16mm)
๏ง Video
๏ง Digital
๏ง Web Cams/PCโs
๏ง Phones
๏ง Tablets
5. Sharing
๏ง Single instance showing- people
came to you.
๏ง VHS- Duplicate and share- Americaโs
Funniest Home Video
๏ง Digital- email/upload
7. Viral Video
The term "viral video" refers to video clip
content which gains widespread popularity
through the process of Internet sharing,
typically through email or instant
messages, blogs, and other media-sharing
websites, such as YouTube.
(urbandictionary.com)
11. โSome of the comments on YouTube make you weep
for the future of humanity just for the spelling
alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked
hatredโ
-Lev Grossman, Time, 2006
16. โPerforming Childhood on the Webโ
Fleeting Images: Portrayals of Children
in Popular Culture, edited by Vibiana
Bowman Cvetkovic and Debbie Olsen.
Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books
(forthcoming 2012).
Slide background Image adapted from Phillip Braggโs May 2009
photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/synx508/3503645137/