Ann Morrison ..invites Sonja Baumer (Researcher at University of California, Berkeley, US)
'Broadcast Yourself: Reaching out and crossing boundaries through online video sharing on YouTube'
Boundary-crossing involves going into unfamiliar territories and reaching out for new horizons. It has been often used to describe the experiences that people have when they move to another country, learn a foreign language, change identity, or participate in activities that are considered extraneous to their identity. Finally boundary-crossing also happens when people transport and creatively apply a concept or idea from one domain to another.
The present session explores cases of boundary-crossing on YouTube, and has been informed by my research study conducted at UC Berkeley. The study focuses on the ways YouTube mediates youth’s construction of identity and their formation of beliefs and attitudes about a wide range of social issues.
In the first part of the session we feature videos of three American teenagers who attempt to reach audiences outside of their native country, religious or political group, and linguistic community, audiences that are either foreign, remote or hostile. In the second part we highlight yet another angle of the boundary-crossing phenomenon, by showing a cross-cultural, cross-genre and cross-media appropriation of a Finish folk song, and its hybridization with other texts through remix and mash up forms of production.
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Watch Sonja open the event with a skype video-conference call [video.Google: 17 mins]"
http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/user/9
http://today-on-youtube.blogspot.com/
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