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Pitzer College in Claremont, California has begun offering a course that is sure to appeal to lots of students - "Learning from YouTube." Professor Alexandra Juhasz, a media studies professor at the liberal arts college, hopes the course will provide an opportunity to raise issues about YouTube, such as the role of "corporate-sponsored democratic media expression."
To accomplish this, 35 students spend their classroom time watching videos and posting comments. They are also encouraged to post videos of their own - one student did so with a video of himself juggling.
Video surfing on YouTube is an activity that many students probably engage in on their own time. I am sure it is true, as student Darren Grose points out, that YouTube is a good place to "learn a lot about American culture and just Internet culture in general." But getting college credit for it? What am I missing here?
To accomplish this, 35 students spend their classroom time watching videos and posting comments. They are also encouraged to post videos of their own - one student did so with a video of himself juggling.
Video surfing on YouTube is an activity that many students probably engage in on their own time. I am sure it is true, as student Darren Grose points out, that YouTube is a good place to "learn a lot about American culture and just Internet culture in general." But getting college credit for it? What am I missing here?
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9-14-2007 @ 9:25PM
Melissa said...Have you seen how YouTube is affecting the current presidential election? YouTube isn't some mindless viewing on the the internet (though I suppose it could be used that way); it's a complete change in the way we think of media. It's taken the news out of the hands of the media establishment and put it in the hands of the people. Everything that happens, everything that anyone experiences, anywhere in the world, can be broadcast for the rest of the world to see. It's unprecedented. For better or for worse, it's going to change the world.
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9-21-2007 @ 12:41AM
Jarod Hightower-Mills said...I think you are missing the cultural critique that is implicit in the creation of the class. Prof. Juhasz, if you watch the recent videos she has posted, is looking to force a discussion about having a form of democratic media that can support the exploration of radical media praxis, most notably for her that Queer Cinema. The class also explores whether or not YouTube counts a real revolution in media or a new extension of the banality of commerical media.
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