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Megan Harlow

YouTube - citizentube's Channel - 0 views

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youtube iran

shared by Megan Harlow on 24 Jun 09 - No snapshot
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    Megan Harlow on 24 Jun 09
     
    does digital ethnography have an opinion about the political importance of youtube right now?
Mike Wesch

Political Freelancers Use Web to Join the Attack - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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youtube bravenewfilms citizen journalism video pdf2009

shared by Mike Wesch on 03 Jun 09 - Snapshot
  • But in the 2008 race, the first in which campaigns are feeling the full force of the changes wrought by the Web, the most attention-grabbing attacks are increasingly coming from people outside the political world. In some cases they are amateurs operating with nothing but passion, a computer and a YouTube account, in other cases sophisticated media types with more elaborate resources but no campaign experience.
  • Mr. Greenwald shows how technology has dispersed the power to shape campaign narratives, potentially upending the way American presidential campaigns are fought.
  • Mr. Greenwald’s McCain videos, most of which portray the senator as contradicting himself in different settings, have been viewed more than five million times — more than Mr. McCain’s own campaign videos have been downloaded on YouTube.
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  • empowering a new generation of largely unregulated political warriors who can affect the campaign dialogue faster and with more impact than the traditional opposition research shops.
  • Dan Carol, a strategist for Mr. Obama who was one of the young bulls on Bill Clinton’s vaunted rapid response team in 1992. “There’s just a lot of people who at a very low cost can do this stuff and don’t need a memo from HQ.”
  • But as is often the case with such videos, how many of the viewers come to sneer rather than applaud is hard to tell.
Mike Wesch

The YouTube Election | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com - 0 views

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pdf2009 commentary youtube election

shared by Mike Wesch on 02 Jun 09 - Snapshot
  • "What we tried to be on YouTube was the actual television show," says Joe Rospars, the Obama campaign's New Media director.
  • That would explain why Obama first used his channel to respond to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy and later to break the news that he would forgo public financing for the general election.
  • McCain had his "Bomb Iran" moment, which folks were reminded of well into the presidential debates. Obama had the Reverend Wright clips, which forced him to address his relationship with the preacher and eventually renounce the man.
Mike Wesch

The YouTube Election | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com - 0 views

www.newsweek.com/168269

youtube election pdf2009 commentary

shared by Mike Wesch on 02 Jun 09 - Snapshot
  • "After that, I think the assumption was that this was going to be a gotcha medium," says Steve Grove, YouTube's news and politics editor.
  • When the election ended, all YouTube videos mentioning Senator Obama had received a total of 1.9 billion views compared with Sen. John McCain's, which got 1.1 billion views.
  • Obama's YouTube channel alone were watched the equivalent of 14.5 million hours, with McCain's channel racking up about 488,152 hours
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  • A Pew Research Center report titled "Internet and Campaign 2008" found that 39 percent of voters watched campaign-related video online during the election cycle.
  • "Celeb," which compared Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.
  • But Paris Hilton's response video quickly changed the tone of that discussion.
  • hire an Emmy-winning CNN producer to shape what the camp would post.
  • They even had camp manager David Plouffe—who likely took a page from Rick Davis's playbook—give strategy briefings by chatting into a webcam in his office and occasionally referring to a slide.
Megan Harlow

YouTube - The Real Groovy UV - 0 views

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youtube video uvm

shared by Megan Harlow on 04 May 09 - Snapshot
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    Megan Harlow on 04 May 09
     
    youtube uvm health class project
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    Megan Harlow on 04 May 09
     
    This is a video made by a class my sister was in where students were making youtube videos to promote drug & alcohol free life - at my old school UVM - its pretty funny and a cool video for a class
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