From minx at bway.net  Wed Mar  3 11:48:45 2010
From: minx at bway.net (Perry Bard)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 05:48:45 -0500
Subject: <videovortex> Applicants to Tufts University Turn to YouTube -
	NYTimes.com
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/education/23tufts.html

http://www.perrybard.net

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From sabine at networkcultures.org  Wed Mar  3 13:55:55 2010
From: sabine at networkcultures.org (Sabine Niederer)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 13:55:55 +0100
Subject: <videovortex> Impakt Online 2010_ Call for online art projects 2010
Message-ID: <34945CEF-F4DA-452E-BAF4-65C123641A46@networkcultures.org>

Call for Contributions

The City as Interface @ Impakt Online
This is a call for art projects that fit the topic of ?the City as Interface?. Impakt Online invites artists, filmmakers, architects, urban planners, researchers, programmers and the like to submit their proposals for online projects that consider the city as interface, buildings as responsive surfaces, mobile phones as tools for playing and mapping, and technological traces as data for art and research. With the Impakt festival focusing on The Matrix City this year, Impakt Online 2010 offers a space to explore the City as Interface.
 
About the topic
In December 2009, the Institute of Network Cultures (INC) organized an event on Urban Screens in which artists, architects and theorists presented their research and design projects that regarded the city as a space of informatics, buildings as interactive surfaces, and mobile phones as pocketsize urban screens. With this call, Impakt Online wishes to build on this research and design practice, and collaborate with the INC, the International Urban Screens Association, and other parties such as Vurb.eu and De Verdieping on commissioning new works within this field of interest. Engaging with changing conceptions, structures and practices of urban landscapes, the Impakt Online topic of ?The City as Interface? works meaningfully with the Impakt festival?s overall theme of ?Matrix City?. ?Matrix City? maps out the recent developments in this new urban landscape along two regularly intertwining lines. In ?Universe in Universe? the city is viewed as a gathering place of subcultures and communities, and ?Media In Situ? reflects on the city as an immersive audiovisual environment, as a modal structure in which virtual and real systems merge.

About this call
Impakt online will select and support a max. total of three online projects to be presented at Impakt.nl/online. In addition, applicants may also submit a proposal for a residency at Impakt headquarters in Utrecht, which includes a workspace and housing facilities for a period of two months.
 
Deadline for project proposals: April 31, 2010
Please submit your proposal (max 1000 words) and a short bio (max 500 words) to online at impakt.nl <mailto:online at impakt.nl>, by April 31, 2010.
N.B. Impakt online projects are indeed presented online, so please do not submit ideas for art installations for Impakt Festival. 
Deadline for residency proposals: March 31, 2010
Please submit your proposal for an Impakt residency (max 1000 words) and a short bio (max 500 words) to online at impakt.nl <mailto:online at impakt.nl>, by March 31, 2010.
 
About Impakt Online
Impakt Online is a platform for Internet art, powered by Impakt and curated by Sabine Niederer. Impakt is an organization for innovative and interdisciplinary audio-visual arts, both nationally and internationally, that resides in the Dutch city of Utrecht.
 
Past Impakt online participants (in order of appearance):  Igor Stromajer, Tamar Schori, Ramesh Srinivasan, Michelle Teran, Marc Tuters, Angie Waller, Marika Dermineur, Joanna Griffin, Depart, Franz Alken, Natalie Jeremijenko, JODI and Cori Arcangel, Virtual Marathon Team, Jaromil, Teun Karelse, Govcom.org, Koert van Mensvoort, Dominik Bartkowski, Gazira Babeli, Linda Hilfling, George Holsheimer & Mirjam ter Linden & Daan Odijk & Putri Sadiqah & Raoul Siepers, Theo Deutinger, Constant Dullaart.
 
Contact Info
Website: www.impakt.nl/online
Producer: Pim Verlaek, Curator: Sabine Niederer
Mail: online(at)impakt(dot)nl, Impakt Headquarters: +31 30 2944493.
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From danoki at xs4all.nl  Wed Mar  3 16:25:26 2010
From: danoki at xs4all.nl (Dan Oki)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:25:26 +0100
Subject: <videovortex> Meeting on Pierre Schaeffer in Rijeka october 2010
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Hi, dear everybody on the VV list,

Event bellow is interesting if someone wants to send an entry?
Besides paper it can also be a piece of music or mm presentation.
Deadline is 30th april for proposals and summary receipt may 30th.

Best,

Dan Oki



MUZEJ MODERNE I SUVREMENE UMJETNOSTI
MUSEUM OF MODERN AND CONTEPORARY ART
Dolac 1/II, 51000 Rijeka, Hrvatska/Croatia
tel +385 51 492 611, 492610; fax + 385 51 330 982, 492 623
e-mail: mmsu-rijeka at ri.t-com.hr, wwww: mmsu.hr

Rijeka,  January 20, 2010


Dear Madam / Sir,

Pierre Schaeffer's work, among the ones most often mentioned when we speak
of art and ?new media? in the 20th century, is actually only partially
known. Reduced to one single concept, musique concr?te, it has become only
famous pre-history of something as widespread as the sampling technique.
It therefore seems that today it poses no challenge before us. But is that
really so? What would Schaeffer tell us if he were here today with us,
celebrating his hundredth birthday? And who is he actually: a media
researcher or an artist?

In this context, Rijeka offers itself as a surprisingly adequate location:
although Schaeffer has not visited this city during his life, at a certain
point of time it has been a scene of another episode, whose interplay of
?new media?, wartime, and art, maybe in a different way and in a different
sense, seems to be resounding from Schaeffer?s work as well: Are media and
art allies at all, or do they have opposite interests?

At the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of Pierre Schaeffer?s birth,
the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka organizes an
international meeting at which we would very much appreciate your
participation. The basic information about this event please find enclosed
and a detailed elaboration of the program will follow after your
application. Hoping that our collaboration on this project will be
successful,

Yours sincerely

    Jerica  Ziherl
director of the MMSU





International Conference
International Conference
pierre schaeffer: mediArt
Rijeka,  October 6th- 7th, 2010


Conference Board
Dalibor Davidovi&#263; (University of Zagreb, Academy of Music, Croatia)
Nik?a Gligo (University of Zagreb, Academy of Music, Croatia)
Seadeta Mid?i&#263; (musicologist, Zagreb, Croatia)
Daniel Teruggi (Groupe de Recherches Musicales / Institut National de
l'Audiovisuel, Paris, France)
Jerica Ziherl (MMSU, Rijeka, Croatia)


Honored guests

Jacqueline Schaeffer
Fran?ois Bayle
Ivan Picelj

Dates and venue: October 6the- 7th, 2010
Astronomski Centar Rijeka / Rijeka Astronomical Center, Croatia
Art Kino Croatia, Rijeka
Organization:
Muzej moderne i suvremene umjetnosti / Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Dolac 1 / 2, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia


In collaboration with:
Mediainmotion Berlin, University of Zagreb: Academy of Music, Academy of
Dramatic Arts, Fine Arts Academy , HDLU (Croatian Association of Visual
Artists) Zagreb
Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, City of Rijeka, Ministry of Culture of
the Reppublic of Croatia
Conference Topics:
1.  Media OR art?
* Machines ? communiquer: Schaeffer?s experience and media theory
* Acousmonium
* Beyond language
* Art from the spirit of science?
* Planetary culture ? planetary power?
* Production, distribution, creation ? fundamental research and its
application
* Entering the substance of sound ? new foundation of art?

2. Media AND art?
* Pedagogy of the sound object
* Solfeggio of the sound object
* Analysis of electro-acoustic music
* Radio and art
* Performance, presentation, technologies
* Music/art as a research result?

None of these subjects are ment to be exclusive; any may be combined,
others added. Criticism of the terminology, categories and assumptions
made in this list will be perfectly acceptable. We also encourage papers
on the margins of electroacoustic music and papers which discuss works in
the fields of intermedia, installations, radio art, video music,
multimedia, sound art etc.
Call for submissions
The official language of the conference is English. For the participants
who will hold a lecture / read their paper, travel and accomodation
expenses will be covered by the organizer. Deadline for presentation
proposals receipt: April 30, 2010. Submissions including a summary of
maximum 900 characters with spaces are to be made electronically to
e-mail: jerica.ziherl at mmsu.hr. Deadline for summary receipt:  May 30, 2010

Paper acceptance decisions will be emailed to applicants by the beginning
of June.
Following the event, accepted papers will be published by the MMSU.






From rachel at networkcultures.org  Fri Mar  5 15:18:22 2010
From: rachel at networkcultures.org (Rachel Somers Miles)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 15:18:22 +0100
Subject: <videovortex> Call for Contributions: Video Vortex Reader II
Message-ID: <11ADE708-6905-4349-8930-CC3E5C50F1A8@networkcultures.org>

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Video Vortex Reader II

In response to the increasing potential for video as a significant  
form of personal media on the Internet, the Video Vortex program  
examines key issues that are emerging around the independent  
production and distribution of online video content. With the rise of  
YouTube and alternative platforms, the moving image on the Internet  
has become expansively more prominent and popular.  As a wide range of  
technologies is now broadly available, the potential of video as a  
personal means of expression has reached a totally new dimension.

Following the success of the first Video Vortex reader (published late  
2008, second edition, 4000 copies in total), recent Video Vortex  
conferences in Ankara (Oct. 2008), Split (May 2009) and Brussels (Nov.  
2009) have sparked a number of new insights, debates and conversations  
regarding the politics, aesthetics, and artistic possibilities of  
online video. Since these issues develop with the rapidly changing  
landscape of online video and its use, we want to open up a space once  
again for interested people to contribute to this critical  
conversation in a second issue of the Video Vortex reader.

POSSIBLE TOPICS

Taking its lead from the first reader, and based on the issues raised  
at the latest three Video Vortex conferences, as well as recent  
developments, possible topics include:

Theories of online video and Web cinema // Politics of online video //  
YouTube and the state of contemporary visual culture // Database  
aesthetics // Video art meets web aesthetics // Autonomous  
participatory culture for art and activism // Artist engagement with  
?user-generated-content? sites: content and architecture //  
Changing modes of video distribution and what this means for artists  
and activists // Open-source and open-content initiatives //  
Alternatives to proprietary standards // Censorship and YouTube // The  
ethics and politics of indigenous knowledge and online video // The  
use of online video within government practices (election campaigning,  
censorship etc.) // Democracy, citizen journalism and online video //  
Social Cinema // Educational practices and online video in the  
classroom // New and changing economic models // Google, YouTube and  
the economics of online video // Commercial objectives imposed by mass  
media on user-generated and video-sharing databases // Effect of  
ubiquitous online video practice on cinema, television and video art.

WE INVITE

Internet, visual culture and media scholars, researchers, artists,  
curators, producers, lawyers, engineers, open-source and open-content  
advocates, activists, Video Vortex conference participants, and others  
to submit materials and proposals.

FORMATS


We welcome interviews, dialogues, essays and articles, images (b/w),  
email exchanges, manifestos, with a max of 8,000 words. For scope and  
style, take a look at the previous INC readers (Video Vortex Reader,  
Urban Screens, Incommunicado Reader, MyCreativity Reader) and the  
style guide at: http://www.networkcultures.org/_uploads/videovortex_styleguide.pdf

This publication is produced by the Institute of Network Cultures in  
Amsterdam and will be launched early 2011.

DEADLINE: May 10, 2010

SEND CONTRIBUTIONS TO: rachel(at)networkcultures(dot)org

____________

MORE INFORMATION

Video Vortex:
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/

INC readers: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/publications/inc-readers/

Or email: rachel(at)networkcultures(dot)org



ABOUT THE READER SERIES

The INC reader series are derived from conference contributions and  
produced by the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam. They are  
available (for free) in print and pdf form on http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/publications/inc-readers/

Previously published in this series:


INC Reader #5: Scott McQuire, Meredith Martin, and Sabine Niederer  
(eds.), Urban Screens Reader, Amsterdam: Institute of Network  
Cultures, 2009. The Urban Screens Reader is the first book to focus  
entirely on the topic of urban screens. A collection of texts from  
leading theorists, and a series of case studies that deal with  
artists? projects, and screen operators? and curators?  
experiences, offering a rich resource at the intersections between  
digital media, cultural practices and urban space.

INC Reader #4: Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer (eds.), Video Vortex  
Reader: Responses to YouTube, Amsterdam: Institute of Network  
Cultures, 2008.
The Video Vortex Reader is the first collection of critical texts to  
deal with the rapidly emerging world of online video ? from its  
explosive rise in 2005 with YouTube, to its future as a significant  
form of personal media.

INC Reader #3: Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter (eds.), MyCreativity  
Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries, Amsterdam: Institute of  
Network Cultures, 2007.
The MyCreativity Reader is a collection of critical research into the  
creative industries. The material develops out of the MyCreativity  
Convention on International Creative Industries Research held in  
Amsterdam, November 2006 (no longer available in print; pdf online).

INC Reader #2: Katrien Jacobs, Marije Janssen and Matteo Pasquinelli  
(eds.), C?Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader, Amsterdam: Institute of  
Network Cultures, 2007.
C?lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader is an anthology that collects the  
best material from two years of debate from The Art and Politics of  
Netporn 2005 conference to the 2007 C?Lick Me festival (no longer  
available in print; pdf online).

INC Reader #1: Geert Lovink and Soenke Zehle (eds.), Incommunicado  
Reader, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2005.
The Incommunicado Reader brings together papers written for the June  
2005 event, and includes a CD-ROM of interviews with speakers (no  
longer available in print; pdf online).



ABOUT VIDEO VORTEX EVENTS

Video Vortex V: Brussels, Belgium (November 20-21, 2009) was organized  
by Cimatics festival 2009 in cooperation with the Institute of Network  
Cultures in Amsterdam and supported by KASK (Faculty of Fine Arts,  
University College Ghent) and the Center Leo Apostel (CLEA).

Video Vortex IV: Split, Croatia (May 22-23, 2009) was organized by The  
Department of Film and Video at the Academy of Arts University of  
Split and Platforma 9.81, in collaboration with the Institute of  
Network Cultures in Amsterdam.

Video Vortex III: Ankara, Turkey (October 10-11, 2008) was organized  
by Bilkent University Department of Communication and Design, in  
cooperation with the Institute of Network Cultures.

Planned Events: Video Vortex Budapest (Oct. 2010), Leicester,  
Amsterdam (March 2011), Croatia (September 2011).

______

Rachel Somers Miles
Publications + Projects
Institute of Network Cultures

t: +31 (0)20 595 1865
f: +31 (0)20 595 1840

Office Hours: Tues, Weds, Thurs 9:30-17:30

rachel at networkcultures.org
www.networkcultures.org







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From geert at xs4all.nl  Tue Mar  9 16:18:17 2010
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 16:18:17 +0100
Subject: <videovortex> Research on YouTube Comments (fwd.)
References: <mailman.1.1268002825.29212.air-l-aoir.org@listserv.aoir.org>
Message-ID: <4054538F-C0F6-4757-9AA4-12835DA7240E@xs4all.nl>

> From: air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org
> Date: 8 March 2010 12:00:25 AM
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 68, Issue 7
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>   1. Previous Research on YouTube Comments? (Alex Leavitt)
>   2. Re: Previous Research on YouTube Comments? (Lotte Belice)
>   3. Re: Previous Research on YouTube Comments? (Stuart Shulman)
>   4. Re: Previous Research on YouTube Comments?
>      (Caroline Haythornthwaite)
>   5. Re: Previous Research on YouTube Comments? (Patricia Lange)
>
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> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 20:26:44 -0500
> From: Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt at gmail.com>
> To: aoir list <air-l at aoir.org>
> Subject: [Air-L] Previous Research on YouTube Comments?
> Message-ID:
> 	<767eb04e1003061726m75e53584tcaf936da05223952 at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> To anyone that can provide sources,
>
> I am looking for any previous work analyzing the YouTube commenting  
> system,
> or research on comments in a similar online space where the commenting
> system is not the primary function of the space (eg., how YouTube is  
> videos
>> comments). Any help is appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> ---
>
> Alexander Leavitt
> Research Specialist, Convergence Culture Consortium
> Comparative Media Studies, MIT
> http://doalchemy.org
> Twitter: @alexleavitt
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 23:52:55 -0800 (PST)
> From: Lotte Belice <lottebelice at yahoo.com>
> To: Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt at gmail.com>, air-l at aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Previous Research on YouTube Comments?
> Message-ID: <641148.67678.qm at web51306.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>
> Dear Alex,
>
> I know of a couple:
> - Tubers Talk: Examining the Comments on Presidential YouTube Videos  
> Using Dialogic Theory by Kristin Nicole English.
> - Exploring the Gender Divide on YouTube: An Analysis of the  
> Creation and Reception of Vlogs by Heather Molyneaux, Susan O? 
> Donnell, Kerri Gibson and Janice Singer
> - And of course xkcd has made brilliant comics about YouTube  
> commenters. Here are two examples: 1, 2.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Best,
>
> Lotte Belice Baltussen
>
> --- On Sun, 3/7/10, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Alex Leavitt
> <alexleavitt at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Air-L] Previous Research on YouTube Comments?
> To: "aoir list" <air-l at aoir.org>
> Date: Sunday, March 7, 2010, 2:26 AM
>
> To anyone that can provide sources,
>
> I am looking for any previous work analyzing the YouTube commenting  
> system,
> or research on comments in a similar online space where the commenting
> system is not the primary function of the space (eg., how YouTube is  
> videos
>> comments). Any help is appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> ---
>
> Alexander Leavitt
> Research Specialist, Convergence Culture Consortium
> Comparative Media Studies, MIT
> http://doalchemy.org
> Twitter: @alexleavitt
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>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 06:26:03 -0500
> From: Stuart Shulman <stuart.shulman at gmail.com>
> To: Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt at gmail.com>
> Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Previous Research on YouTube Comments?
> Message-ID:
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> At QDAP, in collaboration with personnel at the Smithsonian, we are  
> using
> Context Miner (http://contextminer.com/index.php) to harvest  
> comments about
> climate change videos on YouTube for classification classification  
> using the
> Public Comment Analysis Toolkit (PCAT - http://pcat.qdap.net/).
>
> It turns out these two free software pieces work well together, but,  
> we are
> having to make adaptations to better leverage the meta data in the  
> manual
> annotation process. Decontextualized comments from YouTube are very  
> tough to
> code without following a complete thread though start to finish.
>
> It seems, in this early stage of the research, that one must be fully
> immersed in the cross-references between commenters to make any  
> sense of it
> at all.
>
> Do list members have thoughts on this? Our friends at the  
> Smithsonian are
> interested in finding out what, if anything, contributes to a  
> 'better' or
> 'worse' online discussion about the future of the earth. Should we  
> ever
> expect serious deliberation in such a space?
>
> ~Stu
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> To anyone that can provide sources,
>>
>> I am looking for any previous work analyzing the YouTube commenting  
>> system,
>> or research on comments in a similar online space where the  
>> commenting
>> system is not the primary function of the space (eg., how YouTube  
>> is videos
>>> comments). Any help is appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Alexander Leavitt
>> Research Specialist, Convergence Culture Consortium
>> Comparative Media Studies, MIT
>> http://doalchemy.org
>> Twitter: @alexleavitt
>> _______________________________________________
>> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http:// 
>> aoir.org
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>> http://www.aoir.org/
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>
>
>
> -- 
> Dr. Stuart W. Shulman
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Political Science
> University of Massachusetts Amherst
> 200 Hicks Way
> Amherst, MA 01003
>
> http://people.umass.edu/stu/
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>
> Director, QDAP-UMass
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>
> Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government
> http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Sun,  7 Mar 2010 09:03:42 -0600 (CST)
> From: Caroline Haythornthwaite <haythorn at illinois.edu>
> To: stuart.shulman at gmail.com, "Alex Leavitt" <alexleavitt at gmail.com>
> Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Previous Research on YouTube Comments?
> Message-ID: <20100307090342.CCY06742 at expms1.cites.uiuc.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> To find out who is talking to whom in these comments, you might look  
> at the work by Anatoliy Gruzd that derives the social networks from  
> threaded conversations. His technique uses references within the  
> text to do more than just follow sequences of posts. See,
>
> http://anatoliygruzd.com/home/?page_id=27
>
> and/or
>
> http://textanalytics.net/
>
> He recently presented at IR 10 on analyzing blog comments.
>
>
> /Caroline
>
> ---- Original message ----
>> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 06:26:03 -0500
>> From: Stuart Shulman <stuart.shulman at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Previous Research on YouTube Comments?
>> To: Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt at gmail.com>
>> Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>>
>> At QDAP, in collaboration with personnel at the Smithsonian, we are  
>> using
>> Context Miner (http://contextminer.com/index.php) to harvest  
>> comments about
>> climate change videos on YouTube for classification classification  
>> using the
>> Public Comment Analysis Toolkit (PCAT - http://pcat.qdap.net/).
>>
>> It turns out these two free software pieces work well together,  
>> but, we are
>> having to make adaptations to better leverage the meta data in the  
>> manual
>> annotation process. Decontextualized comments from YouTube are very  
>> tough to
>> code without following a complete thread though start to finish.
>>
>> It seems, in this early stage of the research, that one must be fully
>> immersed in the cross-references between commenters to make any  
>> sense of it
>> at all.
>>
>> Do list members have thoughts on this? Our friends at the  
>> Smithsonian are
>> interested in finding out what, if anything, contributes to a  
>> 'better' or
>> 'worse' online discussion about the future of the earth. Should we  
>> ever
>> expect serious deliberation in such a space?
>>
>> ~Stu
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Alex Leavitt  
>> <alexleavitt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> To anyone that can provide sources,
>>>
>>> I am looking for any previous work analyzing the YouTube  
>>> commenting system,
>>> or research on comments in a similar online space where the  
>>> commenting
>>> system is not the primary function of the space (eg., how YouTube  
>>> is videos
>>>> comments). Any help is appreciated!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alex
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Alexander Leavitt
>>> Research Specialist, Convergence Culture Consortium
>>> Comparative Media Studies, MIT
>>> http://doalchemy.org
>>> Twitter: @alexleavitt
>>> _______________________________________________
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> Caroline Haythornthwaite
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> Hello,
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> I have a qualitative piece on people's perceptions of different  
> kinds of comments on YouTube. It is called "Commenting on Comments:  
> Investigating Responses to Antagonism on YouTube" and can be found  
> here:
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> http://sfaapodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/update-apr-17-lange-sfaa-paper-2007.pdf
>
> There is also a piece in JCMC: Talking Text and Talking Back: "My  
> BFF Jill" from Boob Tube to YouTube (p 1050-1079)
>
> Let us know what you find out!
>
> Patricia G. Lange
> Anthropologist
> Institute for Multimedia Literacy
> University of Southern California
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> My website: patriciaglange.org
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From geert at xs4all.nl  Tue Mar 23 09:23:35 2010
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:23:35 +0100
Subject: <videovortex> YouTube Axes Its RealTime Toolbar Experiment (from
	Techcrunch)
Message-ID: <31B3303C-6810-4BC2-9FDA-A2460D7690AD@xs4all.nl>

http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/22/youtube-realtime/

YouTube Axes Its RealTime Toolbar Experiment
by Jason Kincaid on Mar 22, 2010
Last year, we reported on an experimental new YouTube project called  
RealTime.  The feature let you interact with your friends on YouTube,  
sharing videos and seeing what else they were watching using a slick  
toolbar that was integrated at the bottom of the screen. Alas, it  
looks like YouTube wasn?t satisfied with its performance: less than a  
year later, YouTube has removed the RealTime feature entirely. The  
following message was posted this morning to YouTube?s bug report forum:

"We?ve seen some of you wondering what occurred to the Realtime  
Toolbar. The Realtime Toolbar was recently retired and is no longer an  
available feature on YouTube.

We were excited to release and experiment with Realtime and it has  
inspired us for new features on YouTube in the future. We look forward  
to introducing many new features in the coming months and are sharing  
them with you all. Many thanks to those of you who used Realtime and  
for your feedback to us on this feature- your suggestions and input  
help the Team shape the site and determine what should be developed to  
further improve the YouTube community.

~ Liz (on behalf of the YouTube Team)."

RealTime looked and behaved a bit like Facebook?s notification system  
and the Meebo Bar. You could click on a menu item in the bottom right  
hand side of your screen to see what your friends were currently  
watching. If a friend invited you to watch a video, a small  
notification window would pop up immediately. This could have been a  
boon to discovery, as it made it very easy for friends to swap the  
cool videos they found on the site.  But YouTube never rolled it out  
widely ? you could only access it if you had an invitation.

So why did YouTube get rid of the feature?  As it turns out, RealTime  
didn?t increase engagement and discovery as much as the other features  
that the site has been rolling out, like auto-sharing videos to  
Facebook and Twitter, and the improved YouTube friend finder.

Thanks to Michel Wester for the tip

From bojana_romic at yahoo.com  Wed Mar 31 15:08:13 2010
From: bojana_romic at yahoo.com (Bojana Romic)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:08:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: <videovortex> An article about YouTube in Slate magazine
Message-ID: <74369.59483.qm@web33103.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hello,an interesting article entitled "You Tube's original sin" has been published in Slate magazine two days ago. You can find it here:
http://www.slate.com/id/2249124/
Greetings,Bojana


      
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