It’s interesting and highly entertaining to watch, and might give some people who support draconian copyright regimes reason to rethink their support.

Click here to view the embedded video.

• 0:00 Introduction, YouTube’s Big Numbers
• 2:00 Numa Numa and the Celebration of Webcams
• 5:53 The Machine is Us/ing Us and the New Mediascape
• 12:16 Introducing our Research Team
• 12:56 Who is on YouTube?
• 13:25 What’s on Youtube? Charlie Bit My Finger, Soulja Boy, etc.
• 17:04 5% of vids are personal vlogs addressed to the YouTube community, Why?
• 17:30 YouTube in context. The loss of community and “networked individualism” (Wellman)
• 18:41 Cultural Inversion: individualism and community
• 19:15 Understanding new forms of community through Participant Observation
• 21:18 YouTube as a medium for community
• 23:00 Our first vlogs
• 25:00 The webcam: Everybody is watching where nobody is (“context collapse”)
• 26:05 Re-cognition and new forms of self-awareness (McLuhan)
• 27:58 The Anonymity of Watching YouTube: Haters and Lovers
• 29:53 Aesthetic Arrest
• 30:25 Connection without Constraint
• 32:35 Free Hugs: A hero for our mediated culture
• 34:02 YouTube Drama: Striving for popularity
• 34:55 An early star: emokid21ohio
• 36:55 YouTube’s Anthenticity Crisis: the story of LonelyGirl15
• 39:50 Reflections on Authenticity
• 41:54 Gaming the system / Exposing the System
• 43:37 Seriously Playful Participatory Media Culture (featuring Us by blimvisible)
• 47:32 Networked Production: The Collab. MadV’s “The Message” and the message of YouTube
• 49:29 Poem: The Little Glass Dot, The Eyes of the World
• 51:15 Conclusion by bnessel1973
• 52:50 Dedication and Credits (Our Numa Numa dance)

For more info: http://mediatedcultures.net

The Clarksville Parks and Recreation Department Summer Youth Program begins June 9 with the opening of gymnasiums and the program ends on July 17. The Summer Youth Program is a fun day-camp offered to children ages 6-16 for six weeks each summer. Gyms are staffed with Directors and Assistants five days a week starting June 9 through July 17 to offer leadership and assistance in play activities and free lessons in dance and karate.

Burt-Cobb Community Center, Crow Community Center, and Kleeman Community Center are Summer Program sites as well as Barksdale, Burt, Glenellen, Hazelwood, Liberty, Minglewood, and St. Bethlehem Elementary Schools. The Housing Authority at Summit Heights and Caldwell Lane and the New Providence Outreach Center are also providing sites for the Summer Youth Program.

Caldwell Lane will be open Monday-Friday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. All other sites are open 9:00 am to 3:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. All sites will be closed and lunch will not be served July 4 in observance of Independence Day.

Registration is required by a parent or guardian. Anyone planning to attend the program at Burt-Cobb, Crow, and Kleeman Community Centers is encouraged to register early starting June 2 at the community center you plan for your child to attend. All other gym locations will begin registration at 9 a.m. on June 6.

In addition to the fun gym activities and swimming, the Parks and Recreation Department offers golf and tennis lessons. These lessons are free, but do require pre-registration. Parents can pre-register children for the golf lessons at Mason Rudolph Clubhouse on June 6. Ages 6-10 can be registered from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and ages 11-16 can register from 10:30 am to noon. Parents can register their children ages 6-16 for the tennis lessons on June 6 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Clarksville Parks and Recreation office.

The Roxy Regional Theater will offer a six-week theatre workshop for ages 10-16. The cost of the program is $30, due at registration on June 6 at the Clarksville Parks and Recreation office from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

The Summer Youth Program participates in the USDA Summer Lunch Program, so each child attending the program will be offered a free, nutritious lunch daily. Free Swim Fridays are offered to each child in the program. Each site will be designated a pool where they can swim free for 2 hours each Friday morning. There is no charge for this activity. Transportation to the pool is provided from the gym sites.

For more information about the Summer Youth Program, please call the Clarksville Parks and Recreation Department at 645-7476.

The Women’s Softball League begins play on Thursday at Heritage Park. Coaches’ packets with schedules are available at the Parks and Recreation office for pickup. The Tuesday Church Youth League season starts June 10 also at Heritage Park.

Games begin next week for the Youth Recreation League. First games are Monday night for ages five to six, Tuesday night for ages seven to eight, and Thursday night for ages nine to ten and eleven to twelve.