Wednesday, October 8, 2008

week 6 Media Diet and Digital Ethnography (more)

Here is a snapshot from my media diet that traces a little digital ethnography like what we saw and discussed with Michael Wesch's youtube presentation to Library of Congress.

My wife heard about this first clip on NPR and shared it with me. It has thousands of hits on youtube. (obama, llama, duck) 

The clip itsself is based on a viral video phenomenon, i had also not seen, but i'm betting many of you have, (llama, llama, duck) (many many many remixes and versions posted)

This reminded me of a viral video phenomenon that i did know about (all your base) which incidentally pre-dates youtube- (many versions and remixes posted)
high res-here.
which then, is mentioned in the Vlog Bros. description of creating the 'obama llama duck' piece where this all started. 

Full Circle.

I then watched the presidential debate on CNN because it has that fascinating response graph along the bottom (discuss) and fell asleep about 3/4 of the way through. zzzzzz.

when i woke up this morning the first thought in my consciousness was the obama llama song, and it has continued to loop until this very moment.
(google infectious repetitis, see dan dennett, memes)

also, if you are looking for ideas for any of your class presentations- browse here, an excellent resource- Media Education Foundation


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