Youtube.com has indeed become one of the latest and most powerful internet phenomenons. Its basic function was to just create a community by a sharing of video clips. However, after reaching its ridiculous popularity, YouTube is a great factor of influence among its common users. From entertainment, to politics, to even issues of copyright, this website has become a way to widely reach out to the public.
Youtube.com has become a new form and alteration of entertainment. Perhaps it could be due to its amazing variety of video categories. The most unexpected types of creativity can be shared as a short video, knowing it can easily be reached worldwide. Two creative teenagers create a funny video. It is posted on youtube.com, within months it reaches the millions of views. Smosh, as this duo is called, has won the youtube humor award, and had their life changed since. These two kids then appear in TV, radio shows, create their own clothing line, create their own website, and their videos are highly anticipated by their fans. They are known as youtube celebrities; a new form of entertainment. This is just an example of the wisely used power of the site. Some other forms of entertainment that can be widely exposed through youtube are: musical acts, mini-series, current events, point of views, comedy, the expressing of talent, or just plain pleasant time killers.
Among the views or opinions that can be expressed through this site, there are those of political views. Even though, politics matters are not among the big interests of the youth (for the majority of youtube users are commonly young), youtube is nevertheless a good way to try to reach to the young audience. As opposed to TV, commercials and news articles, political views can be personalized, meaning not being sponsored by a political party, but by the individual instead. This then is shared world wide. This is how eventually, a collectivity and variety of thoughts are posted. Users are then exposed to these views as they surf through the site. Hence, YouTube.com becomes a easier way for the youth's attention to be caught with more understandable and more demonstrative political views exposed, than say a political debate aired on CNN, which is not likely for a teenager to be searching on TV programming. A college English 110 class with sixteen students, where youtube videos were being searched and showed, around four to five of these students had learned something new about the current politic matter, which in this particular case was the unawareness of Hilary Clinton voting for the current war. They learned this through a very humorous, yet simple video, a video that can be easily watched by the thousands. This is an example of how YouTube.com can reach its audiense even on poorly interested topics, but yet making an impacact.
With great powers, great responsibilities also arise; or more problems? This YouTube.com was caught in the middle of controversial copyright issues. Copyright, or ownership of specifics works or ideas, has been greatly argued after the rise the website. Since these videos are do easily shared world wide, the claim of "ownership" of them is question and debated by many people. Should every user claim copyright to their posted videos? Can copyrighted works be posted on youtube? As the result to these dilemmas, YouTube had to face the removal of certain videos upon requests. For example, a clip of singer and performer Beyonce Knowles falling in a stage had been called upon a copyrighted work of Sony Entertainment, who had immediately asked for the removal of the video off the site. With similar events, YouTube had even faced law sues on this matter. The site and this controversy has helped the idea of copyright to come closer to the public.
Among the views or opinions that can be expressed through this site, there are those of political views. Even though, politics matters are not among the big interests of the youth (for the majority of youtube users are commonly young), youtube is nevertheless a good way to try to reach to the young audience. As opposed to TV, commercials and news articles, political views can be personalized, meaning not being sponsored by a political party, but by the individual instead. This then is shared world wide. This is how eventually, a collectivity and variety of thoughts are posted. Users are then exposed to these views as they surf through the site. Hence, YouTube.com becomes a easier way for the youth's attention to be caught with more understandable and more demonstrative political views exposed, than say a political debate aired on CNN, which is not likely for a teenager to be searching on TV programming. A college English 110 class with sixteen students, where youtube videos were being searched and showed, around four to five of these students had learned something new about the current politic matter, which in this particular case was the unawareness of Hilary Clinton voting for the current war. They learned this through a very humorous, yet simple video, a video that can be easily watched by the thousands. This is an example of how YouTube.com can reach its audiense even on poorly interested topics, but yet making an impacact.
With great powers, great responsibilities also arise; or more problems? This YouTube.com was caught in the middle of controversial copyright issues. Copyright, or ownership of specifics works or ideas, has been greatly argued after the rise the website. Since these videos are do easily shared world wide, the claim of "ownership" of them is question and debated by many people. Should every user claim copyright to their posted videos? Can copyrighted works be posted on youtube? As the result to these dilemmas, YouTube had to face the removal of certain videos upon requests. For example, a clip of singer and performer Beyonce Knowles falling in a stage had been called upon a copyrighted work of Sony Entertainment, who had immediately asked for the removal of the video off the site. With similar events, YouTube had even faced law sues on this matter. The site and this controversy has helped the idea of copyright to come closer to the public.
YouTube.com has indeed proven to be one of the most successful current websites. YouTube is not only successful but also powerful. With the strong community and connections formed though the sharing of videos, the site can be said to be nothing, but amazing.
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YouTube is changing entertainment. By allowing anyone to upload videos, viewers can watch entertaining clips and "shows" made by regular people as opposed to it being all celebrities. I prefer to watch regular people; it comes with more reality and the ideas are more interesting as opposed to dealing with more crap concerning "Brangelina" or Brittney. I enjoy the variety of ideas from society that are available on YouTube.
Since the YouTube website has been created, it has become the most famous and used website for entertainment. YouTube has made it easier and faster to download videos. It has become a phenomenon due top the fact that it has a vast number of video categories to choose from. Viewers can also watch their favorite T.V. show episodes that they may have missed.
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