{"id":284,"date":"2007-09-19T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2007-09-19T09:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T14:25:00","slug":"what-can-we-learn-from-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/09\/19\/what-can-we-learn-from-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"What Can We Learn from YouTube?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/RvEm4BObAgI\/AAAAAAAAAbc\/BYUHz6CUcc4\/s1600-h\/pic_youtubelogo_123x63.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/RvEm4BObAgI\/AAAAAAAAAbc\/BYUHz6CUcc4\/s200\/pic_youtubelogo_123x63.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>First of all, I&#8217;m here to report that there is such a thing as a chocolate hangover.<\/p>\n<p>Second, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/us\/AP-YouTube-Class.html?_r=2&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin\">news<\/a> about this course that Pitzer College media studies professor and documentary filmmaker <a href=\"http:\/\/pzacad.pitzer.edu\/~ajuhasz\/pages\/video.htm\">Alexandra Juhasz<\/a> is teaching on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">YouTube<\/a>.  Literally.  The course&#8217;s subject? The popular role of YouTube!<\/p>\n<p>Class members control most of the class content and YouTube watchers from around the world are encouraged to comment.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JR4g342sEyI\">Mainstream media coverage<\/a> is all &#8220;you&#8217;re kidding&#8211;college credit for watching YouTube?&#8221; But if you ask me, it&#8217;s an incredibly innovative venture.  I&#8217;m eager to see where this leads.  <\/p>\n<p>To check out the course and join the conversation, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/group\/learningfromyoutube\">click here<\/a>.  Juhasz is blogging about it all at <a href=\"http:\/\/aljean.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/15\/on-celebrity-and-scale\/\">Media Praxis<\/a>, a project she&#8217;s developing for <a href=\"http:\/\/mediacommons.futureofthebook.org\/\">Mediacommons<\/a>, where interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/mediacommons.futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/15\/more-on-learning-from-youtube\/\">commentary on the project<\/a> is also underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, I&#8217;m here to report that there is such a thing as a chocolate hangover. Second, check out the news about this course that Pitzer College media studies professor and documentary filmmaker Alexandra Juhasz is teaching on YouTube. Literally. The course&#8217;s subject? The popular role of YouTube! Class members control most of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4124],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}