Comments on: Bad Video: From meaning to feeling, YouTube Tour #4 http://aljean.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/bad-video-from-meaning-to-feeling-youtube-tour-4/ Integrating Media Theory, Practice and Politics Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:55:59 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Everything on YouTube is Video Art…Nah « MEDIA PRAXIS http://aljean.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/bad-video-from-meaning-to-feeling-youtube-tour-4/#comment-3086 Everything on YouTube is Video Art…Nah « MEDIA PRAXIS Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:02:35 +0000 http://aljean.wordpress.com/?p=40#comment-3086 [...] videos on YouTube are neither surprising nor poetic, falling as they so easily do into the quickly consolidating vernaculars of either “good” corporate production or “bad” people-made videos (a case I made earlier in [...] [...] videos on YouTube are neither surprising nor poetic, falling as they so easily do into the quickly consolidating vernaculars of either “good” corporate production or “bad” people-made videos (a case I made earlier in [...]

]]> By: Dueling Banjos « MEDIA PRAXIS http://aljean.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/bad-video-from-meaning-to-feeling-youtube-tour-4/#comment-3001 Dueling Banjos « MEDIA PRAXIS Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:53:01 +0000 http://aljean.wordpress.com/?p=40#comment-3001 [...] Snarks like me see thorns: [...] [...] Snarks like me see thorns: [...]

]]> By: MP:me http://aljean.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/bad-video-from-meaning-to-feeling-youtube-tour-4/#comment-2819 MP:me Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:14:23 +0000 http://aljean.wordpress.com/?p=40#comment-2819 The home-video style of production (word-reliant, image-compromised) affirms a real person and place. The hand of an amateur compelled to communicate. While I agree that we all believe this is more "real" than TV, I am currently trying to figure out how doubt and skepticism also color that reality effect. The home-video style of production (word-reliant, image-compromised) affirms a real person and place. The hand of an amateur compelled to communicate. While I agree that we all believe this is more “real” than TV, I am currently trying to figure out how doubt and skepticism also color that reality effect.

]]> By: Dr. Strangelove http://aljean.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/bad-video-from-meaning-to-feeling-youtube-tour-4/#comment-2817 Dr. Strangelove Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:44:13 +0000 http://aljean.wordpress.com/?p=40#comment-2817 Nice commentary. I am trying to explain the way the YouTube audience FEELS that amateur online video provides a more real, a more authentic, experience. Without worrying over the epistemological difficulties of such claims, any thoughts on the 'more real than tv' side of YouTube? Dr. Strangelove www.strangelove.com Nice commentary. I am trying to explain the way the YouTube audience FEELS that amateur online video provides a more real, a more authentic, experience. Without worrying over the epistemological difficulties of such claims, any thoughts on the ‘more real than tv’ side of YouTube?

Dr. Strangelove
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]]> By: We’re Not in Kansas Anymore « MEDIA PRAXIS http://aljean.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/bad-video-from-meaning-to-feeling-youtube-tour-4/#comment-2711 We’re Not in Kansas Anymore « MEDIA PRAXIS Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:25:40 +0000 http://aljean.wordpress.com/?p=40#comment-2711 [...] of the human in front of them,” I find a set of quickly calsifying media conventions that reduce the individual’s empowerment to the realm of authentic, mundane feeling. Where Michael might see the FREE HUGS campaign as an [...] [...] of the human in front of them,” I find a set of quickly calsifying media conventions that reduce the individual’s empowerment to the realm of authentic, mundane feeling. Where Michael might see the FREE HUGS campaign as an [...]

]]> By: Alexandra Juhasz, “Bad Video: From meaning to Feeling” (2008) http://aljean.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/bad-video-from-meaning-to-feeling-youtube-tour-4/#comment-2709 Alexandra Juhasz, “Bad Video: From meaning to Feeling” (2008) Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:38:59 +0000 http://aljean.wordpress.com/?p=40#comment-2709 [...] “Bad Video: From Meaning to Feeling,” Media Praxis [...] [...] “Bad Video: From Meaning to Feeling,” Media Praxis [...]

]]> By: Sarah http://aljean.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/bad-video-from-meaning-to-feeling-youtube-tour-4/#comment-2622 Sarah Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:55:44 +0000 http://aljean.wordpress.com/?p=40#comment-2622 "so here we’d include dumb inside jokes and also badly-shot event-footage: birthdays, parades, baby’s first step" i would see this as corporate as well- it is parents viewing children as possessions, filming them, being "proud" of their appearance, and i doubt they are interested in the children beyond making them smile for the camera, and i doubt they perceive or display the children's real feelings. family videos are formalities we use to promote our own family unit. birthdays and first steps are not interesting or original, they are socially ordained mind control. they brainwash the masses to believe that children are more innocent and precious than grown ups, when really, they are no better, and i do not care about them anymore than myself. "Corporate” videos look good, like TV, because they are made by professionals, are stolen from TV, or are re-cut TV." i like vlogging and youth media, because they are focused on real people, and real feelings. "Meaning is lost to feeling." meaning is lost to sensation. meaning arises from feeling and emotion, and meaning is lost when we depend upon sensation, spectacle and intellect. “so here we’d include dumb inside jokes and also badly-shot event-footage: birthdays, parades, baby’s first step”

i would see this as corporate as well- it is parents viewing children as possessions, filming them, being “proud” of their appearance, and i doubt they are interested in the children beyond making them smile for the camera, and i doubt they perceive or display the children’s real feelings. family videos are formalities we use to promote our own family unit. birthdays and first steps are not interesting or original, they are socially ordained mind control. they brainwash the masses to believe that children are more innocent and precious than grown ups, when really, they are no better, and i do not care about them anymore than myself.

“Corporate” videos look good, like TV, because they are made by professionals, are stolen from TV, or are re-cut TV.”

i like vlogging and youth media, because they are focused on real people, and real feelings.

“Meaning is lost to feeling.”

meaning is lost to sensation. meaning arises from feeling and emotion, and meaning is lost when we depend upon sensation, spectacle and intellect.

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