Taking a big step out of my comfort zone by creating a vlog for my second post! (Nerves set in a few times, so please disregard me saying critiques instead of critics!)
Ideas are based and formulated from this weeks course readings as listed below:
- Do “Digital Natives” Exist? (PBS – Watch until 5:34) – This video from PBS presents an excellent overview of Prensky’s “Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants” framework including the evolution of the idea and the common criticisms.
- Visitors and Residents (David White) – David White from the UK provides an alternate view on Prensky’s framework, useful for understanding the continuum of digital engagement.
- “Social Media Sites as Networked Publics” (danah boyd) – boyd discusses the emergence of social networking spaces as networked publics, and examines how they have emerged to replace and augment our traditional concepts of public space.
- “The IRL Fetish” (Nathan Jurgenson) – Jurgenson introduces an important concept around the common obsession with binarizing online vs. face-to-face spaces and giving less value to digital spaces and communication.
- “YouTube and You” (Michael Wesch) – Wesch discusses YouTube as a cultural medium; he describes the context collapse that occurs in online spaces as well as the effect on issues of identity and self-awareness.
- Excerpt from An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube (Michael Wesch) – This short clip from a longer Wesch keynote describes the spread of one of the first popular digital memes and how this represented new forms of collective expression and celebration.
- Transmedia: High quality, no captions – Lower quality with captions (Henry Jenkins) – Jenkins discusses the concept of transmedia and how youth (in particular) are reclaiming digital spaces from corporate and institutional power.
Thanks for watching! I challenge you to try a vlog!
Kristina
Kristina Boutilier 
This is awesome Kristina! Totally out of my comfort zone as well, but you have inspired me. Well done!
Wow! Good for you, I think this Vlog was great! I need tips, did you script it before recording, or did you just go for it?
Love the comment about- “just because you have the newest phone doesn’t mean you know how to use the tech!” So true!
Thanks Amy! I did script it before recording and practiced. Probably took the same amount if not a bit more time doing a vlog as doing a regular blog post, but I am glad I gave it a try!
Great job Kristina! You’ve inspired me to attempt a vlog at some point this semester. It will be a big step out of my comfort zone too. I agree with a lot of your points and share a lot of your questions regarding the readings and videos as well.