This is a requirement of our Anth-104 class @ Humboldt State University. I came into this video expecting an hour of misery. I am pleased to admit I thoroughly enjoyed this presentation! The reflections and connections shared are touching. I recommend this to anyone who has an appreciation for the evolution of our world-wide community.
It's been 10 years since I first seen this video and I try and watch it annually. I'd love to see an updated version get made at some point because this video has honestly offered me so much in life. It's an hour of pure optimism and appreciation for the online community which has shaped my life more than any book, class, teacher, or platform to this day. This video, for me, serves as a gentle reminder of my connectedness to the world around me.
This video is more than the history of RUclips, it shows the power of this community. Platform is just an empty name to describe it. Before we watched this video, even better before we started studying eLearning and social media, if someone asked us what comes to your mind when you think of RUclips, we would obviously answer videos, music, youngsters, Brazil (Yes, we're Portuguese and our daughters love watching Brazilian RUclipsrs) and addiction. But, something changed… you have strongly changed the way we see and experience RUclips. There are three aspects we’d like to point out: The community sense, the user generated content and authenticity. The community sense really impressed us. We had never thought about the decline and loss of community in that way. Now we see that people have gone through a period of loneliness. We are always hearing people saying: “the Internet, mobile phones, gaming and social networks are driving people apart. Soon our youngsters won’t have the necessary skills to communicate face-to-face.” But after watching this video, we thought, what about TV and Radio and huge supermarkets, etc? These are really isolating. We are not being fair. Through RUclips you communicate, you share, you cooperate, although in an individualised way, but not definitely alone. Nowadays, people are eager to BELONG. RUclips gives you the chance to feel free, to communicate without the face-to-face constraints. Although the audience is invisible, it’s is very “present”, paying attention, reacting and keeping you company. This community connects people in unexpected and unimaginable ways. The part YOU of the name RUclips, refers to the user generated content. It is YOU who make, edit and share the videos. It’s you who comment, who answer, who like them or not. It’s all about You, US, People. We use that little glass dot to show anyone and everyone our stories, our opinions, our information, our sadness, our happiness, and we could continue, but we’ll finish with our values. Is it authentic? Critics spend so much time discussing authenticity while they should focus on more important issues. “Real” people have different “faces” for different situations in their lives. We are not the same people with our family, with our students, with our workmates, with our bosses, at the gym or at the club. Why can’t people have different “faces” in a virtual world, on RUclips? In our humble opinion, the most important is that this “role playing” isn’t used to fool, to insult, to harm, to undermine, but to smile, to laugh with people, to make people happy, to live, to escape sometimes difficult realities and especially to communicate. As long as YOU are YOU and not what the others want you to be. Keep real, even if that means playing many roles, many faces, many “YOUs”. Team Lambda Educação e Sociedade em Rede MPeL UAB
A video that pictures all the YOUs out there. Us. And we are not always all that serious, are we? We do have different personas to handle the world. :) Good post!
watching this in 2020 for my #mco335 social media class during the era of COVID-19 and wow something like a free hugs sign would definitely stir up trouble :( kinda sad but eye-opening too
its really weird and cool to watch this in 2015 as someone who was barely on RUclips in 2008 and was steeped in the RUclips community through 2011-12. my beginning was nowhere near this beginning, in the scope of the internet
I watched this for an anthropology class a couple years back. Every once in awhile, I come and revisit it. I really think is a wonderful video that always make me think. Thank you for sharing!
Whenever I am ready to give up on the human race I just rewatch the Numa Numa part of the "Anthropological Introduction to RUclips" video and then everything is okay again.
Watching this video has been an amazing journey. I've not really gotten into RUclips much at all and that's solely based on the fact that I cannot stand to see myself in photos or video - so I've felt as if I've missed so much - as I have, yet, that's a part of life as well, can't be everywhere all at once. Thank you for putting this out into the RUclipsiverse... Very intriguing, thought provoking and WOW!
This video demonstrates the complexity of human nature mediated by technology and also that real life problems are transposed to these new media that more easily guarantee the emergence of false behaviors, but also authentic behaviors. We can go further by stating that human nature is exposed through the network, in this case from RUclips, showing the best and the worst that the human being has. Technology came to fill pre-existing needs, to resume the concept of community, including learning communities in which we all learn from each other. As you say, the webcam has become a more public place in the world. It can be compared to the world’s eyes in the face of the multiplicity of contents from different areas and the needs, dimensions and masks / identities of each one, of each youtuber.
I was lucky enough to take Wesch's Intro to Cultural Anthropology class at K-State. I'm not an anthropology major, but his class (almost) single-handedly convinced me to switch.
“An Anthropological Introduction to RUclips” consists of a presentation given by Michael Wesch at the Library Congress, on June 23rd, in the year of 2008. He addresses the video-sharing platform RUclips and its community, based on anthropological studies of participant observation performed by him and his students from Kansas State University. The lecture was focused on the birth of this social network and its development over the first few years, after being launched in 2005. During the video, the author discusses the role of webcams and what it means to belong to this “RUclips community”, which seems to communicate through Vlogs, analyzing the risks of loss of authenticity associated with this type of platforms. The author asserts that the isolation triggers the use of social media. RUclips is not limited to research or sharing knowledge. More than that: it is a way of communication, offering a possibility to create relationships with people from all over the world, through videos recorded with webcams in our own bedrooms. Michael Wesch aims to reflect about these human relations and their interaction on the RUclips network. The evolution of the RUclips platform is closely related to the quest for more knowledge. And how the content reaches the receiver is crucial. Combining content with image and sound on a single screen shows that we know that by combining senses - vision and hearing - we can obtain better results regarding the assimilation of information. Michael Wesch reflects deeply on the consequences resulting from communication through this type of platforms (distance communication), mentioning our tendency to express individualism, dependence and commercialization when, as a matter of fact, we desire to belong to a community, establish relationships and aim for authenticity. With the possibility of sharing a video and being seen anywhere in the world and by a large number of people, the question of lack of authenticity is evident. Some create characters that have nothing to do with themselves for the sole purpose of having more views. RUclips users are what they choose to show during the videos. Throughout the lecture, some considerations are made about the limitations of distance relationships, as opposed to face-to-face relationships, with reference to an interesting statement by Robert Putnam: “My hunch is that meeting in an electronic forum is not the equivalent of meeting in a bowling alley”, which can be read in his book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. Team Omega, Educação e Sociedade em Rede (MPeL, UAb)
I never realized until i saw this video of human relationships with media. This is so fascinating that through webcam we can be anywhere or nowhere at any time. You tube is an amazing media source to connect with people all over the world. It's so amazing how people from anywhere in the world are able to share their feelings, thoughts, even themselves and connect with others through time-space compression..
Watching this in 2021 for my online anthropology class. Thanks for making me laugh, cry, and feel connected again during such wild times, to this great big human family of ours. Anyone would be lucky to have such a goofy and poetic person such as yourself as their teacher! Beautifully done. Still crying, thanks
Watched this video for Anthropology of Media, was surprised to find that it is a very interesting look at RUclips back when it wasn't as developed as it is now. Have to wonder if some of the sites he mentions are even still around? haha :) Overall it's a very interesting video!
This was shown in my Anthropology class on the last day of school and we didn't get to finish watching it so I came to watch it because it was so interesting. The best anthropology report since i can actually connect with it. I love this.
Coming to video 3 out of 3 must-see Michael Wesch videos. In this one, professor Wesch foregoes the usual PowerPoint creates a video, once again involving his students, with excerpts from RUclips videos to give an anthropological view of this phenomenon of popularity. RUclips was, at the time, roughly 3 years old. Video uploading fever, as shown in An Anthropological Introduction to RUclips, was affecting everyone. Thirty-something and older uploaded, shared and commented as much as did teens. More than 50% of RUclipsrs at that time were people aged 18 to 24, people born between 1984 and 1990. Generation Y or Millenials. The same people who get bored to death in class, as illustrated in Wesch’s A Vision of Students Today. The focus here is basically how people expose themselves online, dig deep into their souls and, purposely or not, eventually build an audience and even virtual relationships. This portrait of the RUclips phenomenon is also the portrait of their users, in their candour and in their deceitfulness. The virtualization of the self by RUclips upload is what keeps some people going. It is also what leads others to storytelling experimenting. Owned by Google, RUclips is the world's largest video hosting website. Its impact is massive for internet users, for companies, NGOs, politicians, governments and more or less spontaneous groups inspired by socially driven movements. RUclips permeates a range of topics that go beyond the Numa Numa song or any given viral dance or trend: news, social issues awareness, world events, effects on and reactions to the previously mentioned areas. Teaching and education would be much poorer without TedTalks, Tedx and other educational contents. RUclips has also become quite big for people and institution engagement, for branding and marketing, for audience reaching. RUclips is a personal expression platform, for individuals as well as for minorities and their viewpoints. All this raises issues. And it leads to participating, being part of a community, commenting, liking, sharing. Or opting out of some or all of those things. Then again, being alive and active in the world raises issues. And doing or not doing all of those things. Then as today, RUclips mirrors the good, the bad, the beauty and the ugly of its users. And, like Michael Wesch and his students, we are not just observing and studying. Somehow, we are also participating. [Ana Margarida Fonseca - pedagogiadoelearning.com/ & 2019-2020 Elearning Pedagogy Master's @ UAb - Team Sigma @ Ed. e Soc. em Rede]
is a really touching introduction to RUclips: i've signed in after watching the whole video. I've been watching videos on RUclips since ever but never looked at the website from this angle. IT'S REALLY GREAT!
What is RUclips anthropology after all? Bring people together in a network? Satisfy the thirst for community so threatened by the impersonalization of relationships? Yes! But much more. RUclips is part of our culture, from the tender age. In Portugal, our young people have also become youtubers. Many children no longer want to be firefighters or astronauts in adults. They want to be youtubers. They want to imitate their new idols, they want to show off in the big showcase of the network RUclips is part of your digital culture. They consume it like our generation, the analog, watched TV programs, or the previous one listened to radios.
I had to watch this for my Cultural Anthropology class, and I am so glad that I did. You have a very unique way of seeing how others participate and view each other in our daily lives. Thank you! :)
Listen man I'm a fan. The videos you produce are out of this world and your soul shines through - and what a soul that is... Please make more videos your voice is one that the world needs to hear.
I should have worked on my Anthropology paper instead of watching this video. Now I have so many thoughts swarming in my brain that it will be difficult to write about language. I want to congratulate you and your team for putting this together. At first, I had trouble imagining how it would take fifty-five minutes to present this topic. By the end, I don't know how you squeezed everything into that time span. Excellent work.
We are watching the evolution of a new cultural paradigm where anyone can be a producer or consumer of content and customize it according to their own personal understanding. It allows us to blend two concepts without becoming antagonistic, personalization and globalization. Thanks to RUclips and other networks, people have their own voice and their own presence.
It's a really touching introduction to RUclips: i've signed in after watching the whole video. I've been watching videos on RUclips since ever but never looked at the website from this angle. IT'S REALLY GREAT!
I loved the part about noticing beauty in youtubers because you can stare at them as long as you want without it being socially awkward. It is so true! Great lecture, I wish I could be one of those students taking part in this study!
An hour of pure awesome. I learned so much and it became very clear to me that many people on RUclips strive for fame, but some strive to have a sense of acceptance within a new community. RUclips has been a platform for so many people to grow and connect, and Michael Wesch this experiment with your students was so different. I enjoyed every minute of this presentation and it was a true pleasure to watch.
I just want to say I am really inspired by this talk! I was also so impressed by how you were able to keep the audience engaged for 55 minutes. Its hard for most teachers to keep the attention of students for 5 minutes! I also thought you demonstrated a great example of how the learning process can be fun and that it truly is a relationship between teachers and students. I am in a similar program where we are making visual essays, so I look forward to citing this video. Thanks!
This is by far the best video I've seen on RUclips(my only complaint is about the singing, but nevermind that; the content more than makes up for the time spent loading the video). Can't wait to see what novel forms the rapidly-evolving Internet will take in the near future, and the new ways through which it will influence human social interaction and vice versa. This video makes me feel really lucky to have been born in this wonderful day and age.
Interesting how what he talks about at ~17:00 has now happened to the internet, with even "social" media being more and more disconnected, with a focus on a few giant websites and apps.
I was kind of busy and I just watched the whole video and let me tell you - it was worth it. Informative, educational, even entertaining at times and leaves you speechless. What else can I say? It's simply amazing. Even though I'm not the type of guy who'd listen to a teacher for an hour. No, sir! Anyway, cheers.
had to watch this for a class in preparation for a test....i thoroughly enjoyed it & now actually look forward to studying this superbowl weekend. thanks to everyone who contributed to the video!
i am an Anthropology major and brand spankin new to RUclips. Ironically, and yet appropriately this is the first video that I chose to watch. :) very informative, entertaining, and inspirational. Now i am super excited to figure out how to use this website (and continue my education with a little more emphasis on exploring modern technology and social anthropology!!!) thank you for your wonderful presentation.
I love the fact that wether we like it or not, or better put 'wether we know it or not', we are a part of and international, interemotional and intergrating system. But who is studying everyone? That's the beauty. We are not being studied by anyone, but we are studying ourselves. It is an amazing system of theories and use.
Yet again I watched this excellent video, and recommended it to a student of anthropology. Thanks for creating it, 'a fabulous video of learning and love and the ongoing mystery.
I'm watching this for a class, but this deserves all the views and all the likes. It is insane to watch this nine years later and see how much has changed but also how much has changed.
As an anthropology student at University of Queensland studying globalisation I have found your you tube video a compelling argument that glocalisation reigns well and truly after technological globalisation and local culture will continue well into the future in curiously different ways. my whole anth1008 class and I support your project and I personally cannot wait for the next installment in your research. Kudos!
This...is amazing. Most videos are boring after the first ten seconds, and yet this one lasted almost an hour while still making me want more. It also made me cry because it expressed so eloquently the thoughts I have had about RUclips this past year since being introduced to the community. This is amazing, and I can't wait to share it.
Wesch is amazing.... I am currently enrolled in his 8:30am cultural anthropology class here at K-state, and I honestly look forward to it! I feel like my eyes have been opened so much... and I hope I can eventually contribute to this amazing phenomenon! GREAT WORK!
Amazingly well done. As a cultural anthropologist operating in the business realm, it is GREAT to see my cohorts thinking outside of the academic realm. Truly delving into society is what anthro is all about and this video does an excellent job of explaining phenomena everyone else is trying to understand. Bravo!
Just incredible- my friend sent me a link via Facebook, and here i am ... just in awe of the internet... it really is an amazing tool we go to for information and entertainment. I just cannot get over the fact that ONE site can be this influential. then again, maybe one person can change the world. This is a great example of what the internet, and youtube has become with the help of all the world. It is an automated system that feeds everyone data that we all create. WE are our own entertainment
This kinda changed my view on You Tube of what it really is.. and everything else as a whole. This is incredible... what a legacy connectivity has become.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I have been enjoying RUclips for a while. I may not upload or produce any videos, I am only a "viewer/commenter" but I feel a strong connection to the "community". Throughout this captivating video I recognized most of the bits and pieces of RUclips vids and personalities which were part of your collaboration/documentary.Through RUclips I have been exposed to a wealth of info and entertainment, an opportunity for which I am very grateful.
Hi Michael I'm Lucas from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I was studying anthropology but right here is very difficult to study cause of economical issues we've to work and study and it's (again) very difficult. So right now i'm planning to travel all around Argentina and then, go to Europe, Asia... May be i'll be lucky. I hope. Well, that's me, I 've to tell you that your video is excellent, your presentation tells us that we are not alone at all, and there are people just like us somewhere. Congrats!
I had no intention of watching this whole thing, but I kept getting drawn it.. As a RUclipsr myself, this really spoke to me. Thanks for posting this great video.
Amazing Video Dr. Michael Wesh, really amazing, I am really imperssed by this video, now i have a completly new way of looking at videos on youtube, a much diffrent perspective knowing better whats behind every video. Thank you for taking the time to make this presentation and sharing it with all youtube viewers. Congratulations, your video deserves a 6 star rating. + I added it to my favorites. Thank you. You're great man. Congratulations once again!
I am an Communications major with an emphasis in Electronic Media and in my video production class our first assignment was to watch this video and write a paper about it. I just wanted to comment and say that this was a very interesting and entertaining video! Thank you for making my homework assignment fun
Thank you so much for putting this together. I'm trying to write a paper introducing people into a subculture I identify with. I immediately thought about the RUclips community but couldn't put into words what I felt about it. Thank you for helping me rediscover the love I felt when I first joined this truly amazing community.
Thank you so much for this video!! Mind blowing! I also want to thank whoever put closed-captioning on this RUclips video of the "Anthroplogical Intro to RUclips." I do not understand many videos online as I'm deaf. This is the one of the very first few times I've seen it closed-captioned on any online media videos. Please make more online media videos accessible to the deaf community. If you have the technology to do closed-captioning on this video, why not others? Don't leave us out, please!
Well I was about 3 minutes into this when I looked at video's total length and thought "eff that, I'm only going to watch like 7 minutes of this." I didn't even think RUclips supported 55 minute uploads or that I would go against my better judgement and watch this entire presentation. But this was great! If my roommate wasn't asleep on the other side of the room I would take your challenge and try my own video blog. Maybe I still will tomorrow.
Hi! Im an anthropology student in the far land of Chile. I have to say that this video has truly inspired me! I cant tell you how excited I am for this field of knowledge!! Thanks a lot :)
You have beautifully and completely described RUclips in a way I admittedly have never viewed this medium before. And for that I thank you. Makes me want to study anthropology.
My Anthropology teacher had us watch this video in class, and i'm very glad he did. It really hit home to me becuase i just recently joined RUclips and already made some really great friends and had the opportunity to speak my voice. I LOVED the poem at the end of the video
However, I think time changed! Nowadays youtube is a TV alternative, webcams are not driving anymore ( selfi videos moved to FB live and Instagram stories), and youtube content is more and more professional and looks like a high level TV show, rather then home video sharing.
Michael Wesch, I really want to thank you for putting up a video like this. It continue to allows me to realize how big the web, the internet is. I'm a high school dropout, whom my parents and everyone said that I have no future, but because of the web and internet I was able to make a honest living. I'm really thankful that you created this video and I am glad that the internet existed. Thank you Michael Wesch
That was amazing! The best RUclips documentary I've ever seen - even if it was only a lecture that was filmed.
4 года назад
After watching "An anthropological introduction to RUclips" we must ask for a specific definition of “context collapse.” (25:00) . Michael Wesch's answer is big a question: What does one say to the world and the future? Faced with such question, it is not surprising to find many would-be first-time vloggers perplexed by the webcam, often reporting that they spent several hours transfixed in front of the lens, trying to decide what to say. Wesch described the experience in suitably melodramatic terms in an influential 2009 article about the pioneering vloggers on RUclips: "The problem is not lack of context. It is context collapse: an infinite number of contexts collapsing upon one another into that single moment of recording. The images, actions, and words captured by the lens at any moment can be transported to anywhere on the planet and preserved (the performer must assume) for all time. The little glass lens becomes the gateway to a blackhole sucking all of time and space - virtually all possible contexts - in upon itself". Two last question: How does context collapse affect our view of ourselves or maybe the way we present ourselves? Would someone become more like themselves because of lack of context or become more like how they perceive the entire collective of humanity would like to perceive them? It’s interesting to think about someone being shaped more by their youtube comments than by physical interaction.
4 года назад
Jami Goetz wrote: "This definitely makes me nostalgic for the early days of RUclips - just people and their cameras instead of corporations controlling everything". Well. #MeToo ;) >>> and i read: "An anthropological introduction to RUclips" is based on the famous words of Carl Sagan reflecting on an image of earth taken from a distance by Voyager 1 in 1990. In that image the earth is so far away that it appears as no more than a “pale blue dot.” Sagan writes: … consider again that dot … // That’s here. // That’s home. // That’s us. // On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you have ever heard of, everyone who has lived out their lives … everybod … // The pale blue dot … the only home, we’ve ever known. // The pale blue dot is the true significance of the webcam. It sat so humbly on top of ours computer screen.
It's insane, thinking about that Charlie home-made video. That video has recently sold for $760 000 in an auction to own it. It's so strange how times have changed
This video was absolutely beautiful. It gives people a lot to chew on as far as society today and exactly how much media and the internet are connecting us even though we're isolated within our own little home, car, or where ever someone is taping.
Brilliant video. The submersion you used to learn of the community gives your lecture much more authenticity. It seems you sort of "went native." Congratulations on creating the most comprehensive anthropological study on RUclips I've seen.
u guys r extraordinary...now i only started 2 c it this way,though it was right in front of me.never thought that youtube or internet have such an influence!!i knew it was big but not that big!!i was hooked 4 the whole 50 minutes,endured the slow speed!!and normally i don't watch long vids!!.. keep it up,and greetings from Egypt.
Damn crazy watching this in 2021 during covid for history of media arts class, where more than ever, we look to RUclips and social media to connect with people
This was really interesting and fun. I've been apart of the RUclips community for years and recognize allot of this and it makes me happy to see it being talked about and studied and seen as something real and important. It is a big part of thousands of peoples life's and that should be recognized!
Professor Wesch, Thanks for your video “An anthropological introduction to RUclips”. In our point of view, your appreciation remains relevant and up-to-date, even though the Video was created in 2008, if we just look at the way people interact today. RUclips, 15 years later, continues to grow. It is part of our culture, from an early young age, young people became youtubers, content creators. In addition to its use on social networks, the video format, especially short version, is one of the most recommended to capture people's attention online, both for commercial and educational purposes. The percentage of people who learn something of interest on RUclips increases every day. The education is at school, however most of the learning takes place in informal contexts, through collaborative or self-taught work. Students produce, comment and share information on the most varied topics and become selective in what really meets their needs. Therefore, there is a whole wealth of interest, energy and interactions that are channelled to a virtual platform and that escape formal classroom teaching. As we have seen, young people integrate RUclips in all its dimensions of their social life, from the use of media to the way they acquire knowledge and skills. And it is also true that the teaching practice of some teachers already incorporates RUclips in the classroom. However, that alone is not enough. As Wesch would say, in education it is urgent to “rethink some things”. RUclips has a huge variety of videos, we can and should vary in the choice and not use the most popular, musical or most viewed videos. We should experience RUclips culture and watch many different videos, maybe even some that we can just ignore afterwards. (Text by Antônio Figueiredo, Jardel Garcia and José Couto - MPeL UAb 2021)
First off, I am taking a 100 Anthropology Class that required me to watch this. Other assignments and videos the professor has listed have been dry and devoid of emotion.. Thank you Michael for making this class of mine interesting again and giving me a fresh look at the vitality of the you-tube community. I would have never in the hours of using it known about the key/important topics you touched on in this video. To know that this community contains morally dedicated people is touching.
I appreciate your time and efford to create this video and distributing to us in youtube. Its worth of my time to watch this video and its very emotional at some point and given me a good self morale to increase my ability to create and develop. Thank you very much. Zee
thanks for posting this. i really enjoyed it. you gave me a lot to think about. maybe even rethinking what i might want to do as a career. who knew that anthropology could be so fun.
I got to say. I love this study so much. It really makes you think about how our communities are going to involve as time and technology progresses. Future generations are going to be able to look back into history and see aspects of our community as it is now because they are forever preserved in these videos. They are going to be able to be the first generation to really get such an in depth view of past individuals in this generation. Such an amazing video.
Watching this video was the first "assignment" of my 1st yr anthropology course at Adelaide Uni. Shout out to everyone else from that course who is also watching this :)
mwesch Hi ! just commenting to say that this presentation was incredibly inspiring ! i'm an English Lit student, and i find the anthropological aspect of it interesting as in many ways literature is the ''old fashioned'' youtube :p finding this video on youtube reaffirms and validates why i spend and why i enjoy spending time on the site finding vids to watch so just to say i really enjoyed watching x
From Emporia, nice to know we still have intelligent people in Manhattan and on RUclips. Made actual learning fun. I think one point was missed. How many times have you watched random videos for entertainment and actually had your personal self changed in a positive way, unexpectedly from a video? Good job, keep up the hard work.
anyone else watching this for your online class? :b
yup lol
779tav same haha
doing it as well. comm 345 class.
yep lol cultural anthropology
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This is a requirement of our Anth-104 class @ Humboldt State University. I came into this video expecting an hour of misery. I am pleased to admit I thoroughly enjoyed this presentation! The reflections and connections shared are touching. I recommend this to anyone who has an appreciation for the evolution of our world-wide community.
It's been 10 years since I first seen this video and I try and watch it annually. I'd love to see an updated version get made at some point because this video has honestly offered me so much in life. It's an hour of pure optimism and appreciation for the online community which has shaped my life more than any book, class, teacher, or platform to this day. This video, for me, serves as a gentle reminder of my connectedness to the world around me.
This definitely makes me nostalgic for the early days of RUclips - just people and their cameras instead of corporations controlling everything.
Let's take it back. I'm serious. Let's re-normalize low-quality video taken by kids in their backyards.
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OVER 9000 HOURS!!!!
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This video is more than the history of RUclips, it shows the power of this community. Platform is just an empty name to describe it. Before we watched this video, even better before we started studying eLearning and social media, if someone asked us what comes to your mind when you think of RUclips, we would obviously answer videos, music, youngsters, Brazil (Yes, we're Portuguese and our daughters love watching Brazilian RUclipsrs) and addiction. But, something changed… you have strongly changed the way we see and experience RUclips. There are three aspects we’d like to point out: The community sense, the user generated content and authenticity.
The community sense really impressed us. We had never thought about the decline and loss of community in that way. Now we see that people have gone through a period of loneliness. We are always hearing people saying: “the Internet, mobile phones, gaming and social networks are driving people apart. Soon our youngsters won’t have the necessary skills to communicate face-to-face.” But after watching this video, we thought, what about TV and Radio and huge supermarkets, etc? These are really isolating. We are not being fair. Through RUclips you communicate, you share, you cooperate, although in an individualised way, but not definitely alone. Nowadays, people are eager to BELONG. RUclips gives you the chance to feel free, to communicate without the face-to-face constraints. Although the audience is invisible, it’s is very “present”, paying attention, reacting and keeping you company. This community connects people in unexpected and unimaginable ways. The part YOU of the name RUclips, refers to the user generated content. It is YOU who make, edit and share the videos. It’s you who comment, who answer, who like them or not. It’s all about You, US, People. We use that little glass dot to show anyone and everyone our stories, our opinions, our information, our sadness, our happiness, and we could continue, but we’ll finish with our values. Is it authentic? Critics spend so much time discussing authenticity while they should focus on more important issues. “Real” people have different “faces” for different situations in their lives. We are not the same people with our family, with our students, with our workmates, with our bosses, at the gym or at the club. Why can’t people have different “faces” in a virtual world, on RUclips? In our humble opinion, the most important is that this “role playing” isn’t used to fool, to insult, to harm, to undermine, but to smile, to laugh with people, to make people happy, to live, to escape sometimes difficult realities and especially to communicate. As long as YOU are YOU and not what the others want you to be. Keep real, even if that means playing many roles, many faces, many “YOUs”.
Team Lambda
Educação e Sociedade em Rede
MPeL
UAB
A video that pictures all the YOUs out there. Us. And we are not always all that serious, are we? We do have different personas to handle the world. :) Good post!
Did you really just call a large supermarket isolating? What a woman thing to say.
watching this in 2020 for my #mco335 social media class during the era of COVID-19 and wow something like a free hugs sign would definitely stir up trouble :( kinda sad but eye-opening too
it's health hazard lmao. what's eye-opening? it's just basic safety
That "Be Seen" hand at 34:16 is me!
its really weird and cool to watch this in 2015 as someone who was barely on RUclips in 2008 and was steeped in the RUclips community through 2011-12. my beginning was nowhere near this beginning, in the scope of the internet
I watched this for an anthropology class a couple years back. Every once in awhile, I come and revisit it. I really think is a wonderful video that always make me think. Thank you for sharing!
Whenever I am ready to give up on the human race I just rewatch the Numa Numa part of the "Anthropological Introduction to RUclips" video and then everything is okay again.
Good
A celebration of unimaginable possibilities indeed
Watching this video has been an amazing journey. I've not really gotten into RUclips much at all and that's solely based on the fact that I cannot stand to see myself in photos or video - so I've felt as if I've missed so much - as I have, yet, that's a part of life as well, can't be everywhere all at once. Thank you for putting this out into the RUclipsiverse... Very intriguing, thought provoking and WOW!
This video demonstrates the complexity of human nature mediated by technology and also that real life problems are transposed to these new media that more easily guarantee the emergence of false behaviors, but also authentic behaviors.
We can go further by stating that human nature is exposed through the network, in this case from RUclips, showing the best and the worst that the human being has.
Technology came to fill pre-existing needs, to resume the concept of community, including learning communities in which we all learn from each other. As you say, the webcam has become a more public place in the world. It can be compared to the world’s eyes in the face of the multiplicity of contents from different areas and the needs, dimensions and masks / identities of each one, of each youtuber.
Thanks, Anthropology class for bringing me to this Nostalgia trip.
"RUclips is not for fake stuff!!" im crying
Just wait till you hear what they did to pranks
I was lucky enough to take Wesch's Intro to Cultural Anthropology class at K-State. I'm not an anthropology major, but his class (almost) single-handedly convinced me to switch.
WHOA
“An Anthropological Introduction to RUclips” consists of a presentation given by Michael Wesch at the Library Congress, on June 23rd, in the year of 2008. He addresses the video-sharing platform RUclips and its community, based on anthropological studies of participant observation performed by him and his students from Kansas State University. The lecture was focused on the birth of this social network and its development over the first few years, after being launched in 2005. During the video, the author discusses the role of webcams and what it means to belong to this “RUclips community”, which seems to communicate through Vlogs, analyzing the risks of loss of authenticity associated with this type of platforms.
The author asserts that the isolation triggers the use of social media. RUclips is not limited to research or sharing knowledge. More than that: it is a way of communication, offering a possibility to create relationships with people from all over the world, through videos recorded with webcams in our own bedrooms. Michael Wesch aims to reflect about these human relations and their interaction on the RUclips network.
The evolution of the RUclips platform is closely related to the quest for more knowledge. And how the content reaches the receiver is crucial. Combining content with image and sound on a single screen shows that we know that by combining senses - vision and hearing - we can obtain better results regarding the assimilation of information.
Michael Wesch reflects deeply on the consequences resulting from communication through this type of platforms (distance communication), mentioning our tendency to express individualism, dependence and commercialization when, as a matter of fact, we desire to belong to a community, establish relationships and aim for authenticity. With the possibility of sharing a video and being seen anywhere in the world and by a large number of people, the question of lack of authenticity is evident. Some create characters that have nothing to do with themselves for the sole purpose of having more views. RUclips users are what they choose to show during the videos. Throughout the lecture, some considerations are made about the limitations of distance relationships, as opposed to face-to-face relationships, with reference to an interesting statement by Robert Putnam: “My hunch is that meeting in an electronic forum is not the equivalent of meeting in a bowling alley”, which can be read in his book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community.
Team Omega,
Educação e Sociedade em Rede (MPeL, UAb)
I never realized until i saw this video of human relationships with media. This is so fascinating that through webcam we can be anywhere or nowhere at any time. You tube is an amazing media source to connect with people all over the world. It's so amazing how people from anywhere in the world are able to share their feelings, thoughts, even themselves and connect with others through time-space compression..
It was beautiful and moving in 2008, and it is beautiful and moving in2014. Thanks again for making such a beautiful video.
How about 2024?
Watching this in 2021 for my online anthropology class. Thanks for making me laugh, cry, and feel connected again during such wild times, to this great big human family of ours. Anyone would be lucky to have such a goofy and poetic person such as yourself as their teacher! Beautifully done. Still crying, thanks
Watched this video for Anthropology of Media, was surprised to find that it is a very interesting look at RUclips back when it wasn't as developed as it is now. Have to wonder if some of the sites he mentions are even still around? haha :) Overall it's a very interesting video!
This was shown in my Anthropology class on the last day of school and we didn't get to finish watching it so I came to watch it because it was so interesting. The best anthropology report since i can actually connect with it. I love this.
Coming to video 3 out of 3 must-see Michael Wesch videos. In this one, professor Wesch foregoes the usual PowerPoint creates a video, once again involving his students, with excerpts from RUclips videos to give an anthropological view of this phenomenon of popularity. RUclips was, at the time, roughly 3 years old. Video uploading fever, as shown in An Anthropological Introduction to RUclips, was affecting everyone. Thirty-something and older uploaded, shared and commented as much as did teens. More than 50% of RUclipsrs at that time were people aged 18 to 24, people born between 1984 and 1990. Generation Y or Millenials. The same people who get bored to death in class, as illustrated in Wesch’s A Vision of Students Today.
The focus here is basically how people expose themselves online, dig deep into their souls and, purposely or not, eventually build an audience and even virtual relationships. This portrait of the RUclips phenomenon is also the portrait of their users, in their candour and in their deceitfulness. The virtualization of the self by RUclips upload is what keeps some people going. It is also what leads others to storytelling experimenting.
Owned by Google, RUclips is the world's largest video hosting website. Its impact is massive for internet users, for companies, NGOs, politicians, governments and more or less spontaneous groups inspired by socially driven movements. RUclips permeates a range of topics that go beyond the Numa Numa song or any given viral dance or trend: news, social issues awareness, world events, effects on and reactions to the previously mentioned areas. Teaching and education would be much poorer without TedTalks, Tedx and other educational contents. RUclips has also become quite big for people and institution engagement, for branding and marketing, for audience reaching. RUclips is a personal expression platform, for individuals as well as for minorities and their viewpoints.
All this raises issues. And it leads to participating, being part of a community, commenting, liking, sharing. Or opting out of some or all of those things.
Then again, being alive and active in the world raises issues. And doing or not doing all of those things.
Then as today, RUclips mirrors the good, the bad, the beauty and the ugly of its users. And, like Michael Wesch and his students, we are not just observing and studying. Somehow, we are also participating.
[Ana Margarida Fonseca - pedagogiadoelearning.com/ & 2019-2020 Elearning Pedagogy Master's @ UAb - Team Sigma @ Ed. e Soc. em Rede]
is a really touching introduction to RUclips: i've signed in after watching the whole video. I've been watching videos on RUclips since ever but never looked at the website from this angle. IT'S REALLY GREAT!
What is RUclips anthropology after all?
Bring people together in a network? Satisfy the thirst for community so threatened by the impersonalization of relationships?
Yes! But much more. RUclips is part of our culture, from the tender age. In Portugal, our young people have also become youtubers. Many children no longer want to be firefighters or astronauts in adults. They want to be youtubers. They want to imitate their new idols, they want to show off in the big showcase of the network RUclips is part of your digital culture. They consume it like our generation, the analog, watched TV programs, or the previous one listened to radios.
I had to watch this for my Cultural Anthropology class, and I am so glad that I did. You have a very unique way of seeing how others participate and view each other in our daily lives. Thank you! :)
youtube is truly a beautiful place
Listen man I'm a fan. The videos you produce are out of this world and your soul shines through - and what a soul that is... Please make more videos your voice is one that the world needs to hear.
This should be updated because YT has changed a lot since 2008.
I should have worked on my Anthropology paper instead of watching this video. Now I have so many thoughts swarming in my brain that it will be difficult to write about language. I want to congratulate you and your team for putting this together. At first, I had trouble imagining how it would take fifty-five minutes to present this topic. By the end, I don't know how you squeezed everything into that time span. Excellent work.
We are watching the evolution of a new cultural paradigm where anyone can be a producer or consumer of content and customize it according to their own personal understanding. It allows us to blend two concepts without becoming antagonistic, personalization and globalization. Thanks to RUclips and other networks, people have their own voice and their own presence.
Not really,its a guise of freedom manipulated by power & monopolies with unprecedented govt. overreach
It's a really touching introduction to RUclips: i've signed in after watching the whole video. I've been watching videos on RUclips since ever but never looked at the website from this angle. IT'S REALLY GREAT!
I loved the part about noticing beauty in youtubers because you can stare at them as long as you want without it being socially awkward. It is so true! Great lecture, I wish I could be one of those students taking part in this study!
An hour of pure awesome. I learned so much and it became very clear to me that many people on RUclips strive for fame, but some strive to have a sense of acceptance within a new community. RUclips has been a platform for so many people to grow and connect, and Michael Wesch this experiment with your students was so different. I enjoyed every minute of this presentation and it was a true pleasure to watch.
if you are watching this bcs of STS, i just want to sa y "hi"
I just want to say I am really inspired by this talk! I was also so impressed by how you were able to keep the audience engaged for 55 minutes. Its hard for most teachers to keep the attention of students for 5 minutes! I also thought you demonstrated a great example of how the learning process can be fun and that it truly is a relationship between teachers and students. I am in a similar program where we are making visual essays, so I look forward to citing this video. Thanks!
Watching for IDS 401
+Montana Dodge Same!
+Montana Dodge
Still being watched for IDS401!!!
This is by far the best video I've seen on RUclips(my only complaint is about the singing, but nevermind that; the content more than makes up for the time spent loading the video). Can't wait to see what novel forms the rapidly-evolving Internet will take in the near future, and the new ways through which it will influence human social interaction and vice versa. This video makes me feel really lucky to have been born in this wonderful day and age.
B I T L Y
Interesting how what he talks about at ~17:00 has now happened to the internet, with even "social" media being more and more disconnected, with a focus on a few giant websites and apps.
bitly
I was kind of busy and I just watched the whole video and let me tell you - it was worth it. Informative, educational, even entertaining at times and leaves you speechless. What else can I say? It's simply amazing. Even though I'm not the type of guy who'd listen to a teacher for an hour. No, sir!
Anyway, cheers.
anyone else watching this by typing a random bitly link?
yessss
How did you do that?
had to watch this for a class in preparation for a test....i thoroughly enjoyed it & now actually look forward to studying this superbowl weekend. thanks to everyone who contributed to the video!
i am an Anthropology major and brand spankin new to RUclips. Ironically, and yet appropriately this is the first video that I chose to watch. :) very informative, entertaining, and inspirational. Now i am super excited to figure out how to use this website (and continue my education with a little more emphasis on exploring modern technology and social anthropology!!!) thank you for your wonderful presentation.
I love the fact that wether we like it or not, or better put 'wether we know it or not', we are a part of and international, interemotional and intergrating system. But who is studying everyone? That's the beauty. We are not being studied by anyone, but we are studying ourselves. It is an amazing system of theories and use.
Yet again I watched this excellent video, and recommended it to a student of anthropology. Thanks for creating it, 'a fabulous video of learning and love and the ongoing mystery.
I'm watching this for a class, but this deserves all the views and all the likes. It is insane to watch this nine years later and see how much has changed but also how much has changed.
I keep coming back to this video over and over, I love it!!!!
As an anthropology student at University of Queensland studying globalisation I have found your you tube video a compelling argument that glocalisation reigns well and truly after technological globalisation and local culture will continue well into the future in curiously different ways.
my whole anth1008 class and I support your project and I personally cannot wait for the next installment in your research.
Kudos!
This...is amazing. Most videos are boring after the first ten seconds, and yet this one lasted almost an hour while still making me want more. It also made me cry because it expressed so eloquently the thoughts I have had about RUclips this past year since being introduced to the community. This is amazing, and I can't wait to share it.
Wesch is amazing.... I am currently enrolled in his 8:30am cultural anthropology class here at K-state, and I honestly look forward to it! I feel like my eyes have been opened so much... and I hope I can eventually contribute to this amazing phenomenon! GREAT WORK!
Amazingly well done. As a cultural anthropologist operating in the business realm, it is GREAT to see my cohorts thinking outside of the academic realm. Truly delving into society is what anthro is all about and this video does an excellent job of explaining phenomena everyone else is trying to understand. Bravo!
Just incredible- my friend sent me a link via Facebook, and here i am ... just in awe of the internet... it really is an amazing tool we go to for information and entertainment. I just cannot get over the fact that ONE site can be this influential. then again, maybe one person can change the world. This is a great example of what the internet, and youtube has become with the help of all the world. It is an automated system that feeds everyone data that we all create. WE are our own entertainment
This kinda changed my view on You Tube of what it really is.. and everything else as a whole. This is incredible... what a legacy connectivity has become.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I have been enjoying RUclips for a while. I may not upload or produce any videos, I am only a "viewer/commenter" but I feel a strong connection to the "community". Throughout this captivating video I recognized most of the bits and pieces of RUclips vids and personalities which were part of your collaboration/documentary.Through RUclips I have been exposed to a wealth of info and entertainment, an opportunity for which I am very grateful.
This was brilliant, thank you very much for posting this. It's given light on a lot of things not typically thought about...
Hi Michael I'm Lucas from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I was studying anthropology but right here is very difficult to study cause of economical issues we've to work and study and it's (again) very difficult. So right now i'm planning to travel all around Argentina and then, go to Europe, Asia... May be i'll be lucky. I hope. Well, that's me, I 've to tell you that your video is excellent, your presentation tells us that we are not alone at all, and there are people just like us somewhere. Congrats!
I had no intention of watching this whole thing, but I kept getting drawn it.. As a RUclipsr myself, this really spoke to me. Thanks for posting this great video.
Amazing Video Dr. Michael Wesh, really amazing, I am really imperssed by this video, now i have a completly new way of looking at videos on youtube, a much diffrent perspective knowing better whats behind every video. Thank you for taking the time to make this presentation and sharing it with all youtube viewers. Congratulations, your video deserves a 6 star rating. + I added it to my favorites. Thank you. You're great man. Congratulations once again!
I am an Communications major with an emphasis in Electronic Media and in my video production class our first assignment was to watch this video and write a paper about it. I just wanted to comment and say that this was a very interesting and entertaining video! Thank you for making my homework assignment fun
Thank you so much for putting this together. I'm trying to write a paper introducing people into a subculture I identify with. I immediately thought about the RUclips community but couldn't put into words what I felt about it. Thank you for helping me rediscover the love I felt when I first joined this truly amazing community.
Thank you so much for this video!! Mind blowing! I also want to thank whoever put closed-captioning on this RUclips video of the "Anthroplogical Intro to RUclips." I do not understand many videos online as I'm deaf. This is the one of the very first few times I've seen it closed-captioned on any online media videos. Please make more online media videos accessible to the deaf community. If you have the technology to do closed-captioning on this video, why not others? Don't leave us out, please!
I've watched this five times since I found it two days ago . I wish I could give it another five stars and favorite it again . Wow .
Well I was about 3 minutes into this when I looked at video's total length and thought "eff that, I'm only going to watch like 7 minutes of this." I didn't even think RUclips supported 55 minute uploads or that I would go against my better judgement and watch this entire presentation. But this was great!
If my roommate wasn't asleep on the other side of the room I would take your challenge and try my own video blog. Maybe I still will tomorrow.
Hi!
Im an anthropology student in the far land of Chile.
I have to say that this video has truly inspired me!
I cant tell you how excited I am for this field of knowledge!!
Thanks a lot :)
One of the most interresting videos I have seen so far on RUclips. Amazing!
You have beautifully and completely described RUclips in a way I admittedly have never viewed this medium before. And for that I thank you. Makes me want to study anthropology.
absolutely outstanding!!! one of the best videos on this channel that i have seen in a while! - thank you for starting the dance! youtube forever!
My Anthropology teacher had us watch this video in class, and i'm very glad he did. It really hit home to me becuase i just recently joined RUclips and already made some really great friends and had the opportunity to speak my voice. I LOVED the poem at the end of the video
However, I think time changed! Nowadays youtube is a TV alternative, webcams are not driving anymore ( selfi videos moved to FB live and Instagram stories), and youtube content is more and more professional and looks like a high level TV show, rather then home video sharing.
Brilliant , both your presentation and the little glass dot, the eye of the world!!
Michael Wesch, I really want to thank you for putting up a video like this. It continue to allows me to realize how big the web, the internet is. I'm a high school dropout, whom my parents and everyone said that I have no future, but because of the web and internet I was able to make a honest living. I'm really thankful that you created this video and I am glad that the internet existed. Thank you Michael Wesch
Creator of the internet i cannot believe it that you did this, you made everyone's life better.
I accidentally clicked on this video and then next thing i know 55 minutes have passed. Thank you.
Watched this video for my ECMP355 class. I found it very touching at the end. Thank you for the great lecture!
That was amazing! The best RUclips documentary I've ever seen - even if it was only a lecture that was filmed.
After watching "An anthropological introduction to RUclips" we must ask for a specific definition of “context collapse.” (25:00)
. Michael Wesch's answer is big a question: What does one say to the world and the future?
Faced with such question, it is not surprising to find many would-be first-time vloggers perplexed by the webcam, often reporting that they spent several hours transfixed in front of the lens, trying to decide what to say.
Wesch described the experience in suitably melodramatic terms in an influential 2009 article about the pioneering vloggers on RUclips: "The problem is not lack of context. It is context collapse: an infinite number of contexts collapsing upon one another into that single moment of recording. The images, actions, and words captured by the lens at any moment can be transported to anywhere on the planet and preserved (the performer must assume) for all time. The little glass lens becomes the gateway to a blackhole sucking all of time and space - virtually all possible contexts - in upon itself".
Two last question: How does context collapse affect our view of ourselves or maybe the way we present ourselves?
Would someone become more like themselves because of lack of context or become more like how they perceive the entire collective of humanity would like to perceive them?
It’s interesting to think about someone being shaped more by their youtube comments than by physical interaction.
Jami Goetz
wrote: "This definitely makes me nostalgic for the early days of RUclips - just people and their cameras instead of corporations controlling everything". Well. #MeToo ;) >>> and i read:
"An anthropological introduction to RUclips" is based on the famous words of Carl Sagan reflecting on an image of earth taken from a distance by Voyager 1 in 1990. In that image the earth is so far away that it appears as no more than a “pale blue dot.”
Sagan writes:
… consider again that dot …
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That’s here.
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That’s home.
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That’s us.
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On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you have ever heard of, everyone who has lived out their lives … everybod …
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The pale blue dot … the only home, we’ve ever known.
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The pale blue dot is the true significance of the webcam. It sat so humbly on top of ours computer screen.
It's insane, thinking about that Charlie home-made video. That video has recently sold for $760 000 in an auction to own it. It's so strange how times have changed
This video was absolutely beautiful. It gives people a lot to chew on as far as society today and exactly how much media and the internet are connecting us even though we're isolated within our own little home, car, or where ever someone is taping.
man I was so sad when this video ended , I just could'nt have enough :(
you are my new hero
thanks man , really THANKS ;)
Brilliant video. The submersion you used to learn of the community gives your lecture much more authenticity. It seems you sort of "went native." Congratulations on creating the most comprehensive anthropological study on RUclips I've seen.
u guys r extraordinary...now i only started 2 c it this way,though it was right in front of me.never thought that youtube or internet have such an influence!!i knew it was big but not that big!!i was hooked 4 the whole 50 minutes,endured the slow speed!!and normally i don't watch long vids!!..
keep it up,and greetings from Egypt.
Damn crazy watching this in 2021 during covid for history of media arts class, where more than ever, we look to RUclips and social media to connect with people
This was really interesting and fun.
I've been apart of the RUclips community for years and recognize allot of this and it makes me happy to see it being talked about and studied and seen as something real and important. It is a big part of thousands of peoples life's and that should be recognized!
Professor Wesch,
Thanks for your video “An anthropological introduction to RUclips”. In our point of view, your appreciation remains relevant and up-to-date, even though the Video was created in 2008, if we just look at the way people interact today.
RUclips, 15 years later, continues to grow. It is part of our culture, from an early young age, young people became youtubers, content creators. In addition to its use on social networks, the video format, especially short version, is one of the most recommended to capture people's attention online, both for commercial and educational purposes.
The percentage of people who learn something of interest on RUclips increases every day. The education is at school, however most of the learning takes place in informal contexts, through collaborative or self-taught work. Students produce, comment and share information on the most varied topics and become selective in what really meets their needs.
Therefore, there is a whole wealth of interest, energy and interactions that are channelled to a virtual platform and that escape formal classroom teaching.
As we have seen, young people integrate RUclips in all its dimensions of their social life, from the use of media to the way they acquire knowledge and skills. And it is also true that the teaching practice of some teachers already incorporates RUclips in the classroom. However, that alone is not enough. As Wesch would say, in education it is urgent to “rethink some things”.
RUclips has a huge variety of videos, we can and should vary in the choice and not use the most popular, musical or most viewed videos. We should experience RUclips culture and watch many different videos, maybe even some that we can just ignore afterwards.
(Text by Antônio Figueiredo, Jardel Garcia and José Couto - MPeL UAb 2021)
First off, I am taking a 100 Anthropology Class that required me to watch this. Other assignments and videos the professor has listed have been dry and devoid of emotion..
Thank you Michael for making this class of mine interesting again and giving me a fresh look at the vitality of the you-tube community. I would have never in the hours of using it known about the key/important topics you touched on in this video. To know that this community contains morally dedicated people is touching.
55 minutes you WANT to watch !
Thanks for a wonderful hour ,and I learned alot!
I appreciate your time and efford to create this video and distributing to us in youtube.
Its worth of my time to watch this video and its very emotional at some point and given me a good self morale to increase my ability to create and develop.
Thank you very much.
Zee
thanks for posting this. i really enjoyed it. you gave me a lot to think about. maybe even rethinking what i might want to do as a career. who knew that anthropology could be so fun.
I got to say. I love this study so much. It really makes you think about how our communities are going to involve as time and technology progresses. Future generations are going to be able to look back into history and see aspects of our community as it is now because they are forever preserved in these videos. They are going to be able to be the first generation to really get such an in depth view of past individuals in this generation. Such an amazing video.
Watching this video was the first "assignment" of my 1st yr anthropology course at Adelaide Uni. Shout out to everyone else from that course who is also watching this :)
This video changed my life....thanks so much for your hard work...it helped me understand so much...peace.
mwesch Hi ! just commenting to say that this presentation was incredibly inspiring ! i'm an English Lit student, and i find the anthropological aspect of it interesting as in many ways literature is the ''old fashioned'' youtube :p
finding this video on youtube reaffirms and validates why i spend and why i enjoy spending time on the site finding vids to watch
so just to say i really enjoyed watching
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This was great...really well done with great thought out ideas. I'm glad I watched the whole thing! Keep up the good work! :)
This actually really awesome and opens people's eyes to youtube and the internet. Very well done. Great inspirational video.
All I can say is... WOW! amazing video!!! It was engaging the entire time and extremely informative. Thank you for making such a fantastic video!!!
From Emporia, nice to know we still have intelligent people in Manhattan and on RUclips. Made actual learning fun. I think one point was missed. How many times have you watched random videos for entertainment and actually had your personal self changed in a positive way, unexpectedly from a video? Good job, keep up the hard work.
I love taking your class, and comments like these from you only make me like you all the more!
Great lecture, professor!
I'm sending this to as many people here in Brazil as I can.
Cheers!