Week 6: Digging Deeper [Carly Oakman, W14]

I started my research process by searching key terms relevant to my podcast on Mendeley. I have read various articles and selected the ones that I felt best represented our podcast. I plan now to search for relevant quotes within the articles that can be used in my podcast.

My partner and I were both successful in finding some articles and books that we will be referencing and researching further in order to complete our podcast transcript draft. We were looking for sources that will help us gain insight into explaining the background of YouTube and how it functions internally, and to also give perspectives as to how YouTube affects the social media culture and its users as well.  Our scholarly sources are as follows:

• YouTube, Critical Pedagogy, and Media Activism (Douglas Kellner & Gooyong Kim)
• YouTube as a Participatory Culture (Clement Chau)
• YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture (Jean Burgess & Joshua Green)
• From Safe Harbor to Choppy Waters: YouTube, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and a Much Needed Change of Course (Lauren B. Patten)
• Celeb 2.0 : How Social Media Foster Our Fascination with Popular Culture (Kelli S. Burns)
• The Cult of the Amateur: how blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today's user-generated media are destroying our economy, our culture and our values (Andrew Keen)

Our popular sources include the YouTube video "What Guys Look for in Girls" as our primary source. We also plan to find one or two news articles online that talk about this video and its affect on its audience. All of these sources are relevant to our topic and will help us to write our transcript and create the best podcast possible.