Sunday, 16 February 2014

Week 5: Digging Deeper [Paige Gunning, W14]

My partner and I are in the middle of researching for our podcast. We have been primarily focusing on the scholarly sources because we believed that it would be more difficult to find relevant, scholarly articles on a topic which is very recent.

We have focused on two search tools to help us find the scholarly information we needed, namely Mendeley and Google Scholar. We particularly wanted to find scholarly sources which gave us an idea of just how many people use YouTube as well as YouTube's reach on our society's culture right now.

The scholarly sources which we have found using Mendeley are YouTube, Critical Pedagogy and Media Activism, YouTube as a Participatory Culture, and YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture. The scholarly sources which we have found using Google Scholar are From Safe Harbour to Choppy Waters: YouTube, the Digital Copyright Act, and a Much Needed Change of Course, and The Cult of the Amateur.

There are many popular posts on line currently about the Nash Grier video, and we are looking currently for posts which are not too biased and offer factual information as to what the response to the video has been from the public, possibly with statistics stating how many women have taken this opportunity to respond to the video and use it as a form of bringing up the egregious standards women are currently held up to.

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