graded assignment 2: journal article (summary)

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Title: Publicly Private and Privately Public:
Social Networking on YouTube
by
Patricia G. Lange
School of Cinematic Arts
University of Southern California

Abstract

People will be experiencing various types of engagement with videos and one of the most popular medium or website is YouTube which is also known as a public video-sharing website. This article investigates how by manipulating physical and interpretive access to the videos influence the participants to develop and maintain their social network. The analysis tells how difference in social relationship is reflected by circulating and sharing videos among teenagers. There are two categories of “publicness” in video-sharing which are “publicly private” and privately “public”

Introduction

As we are concern, as a platform of video sharing, YouTube also offers personal pages for users called as “channel page”. The ultimate goal of this article is how the teenagers and young adults project their identities by using YouTube’s videos sharing and commenting characteristics which correlate with meticulous social groups. The researcher began the research by demonstrating theoretical blueprint that shows the relationship between media exchange and the process whereby online and in public is negotiated by social network. The second argument is how technical features and social device are being manipulated by youngsters and young adults in order to attain different level of visibility in their video sharing activities.

Literature review

The theory of social network is hard to justify. According to Welman (1996), a social network can be described as relations among people who deem other network members to be crucial or applicable to them in certain way. In keeping with this theory, (ellison et al. 2007; Gross& Acquisti ) 2005, they claimed it is accessible to examine how different social network are developed, maintained and discussed via media by studying social and technical choice that candidates make on social network sites. It is probable to know essential social dynamics among the people who use the media by scrutinizing a media circuit.  For instance, on YouTube, various types of videos will a person may create and share with one set of allies, whilst making and sharing the other category of videos with different set of friends. This article also investigates the public and private both in terms of what is physically or emblematically more or less visible and what counts as crucial or socially related for community network members. To add it up, exploring the fractalization of video-sharing practices consequently grants a valuable lens through which to analysis how social relations transfer and sub-divide contained by the context of unseen media sharing.

Method

All the data are based on semi-structured interviews, field notes on observation and conducted several times a week analyzes of posted videos and comments and examination of subscription. For the interviews, there are 54 participants has been selected and the interviews has been carried out in few different ways. There are 29 candidates has been conducted by phone, 15 candidates via instant messaging and 10 candidates by face to face. The questions are included such as “Are you a YouTuber?” why and why not? “Do you know all the people who have posted comments to your videos? And next is, watching the main YouTube page is one of the activities which were collected during the field note observations.

Results

Here are the results based on the interviews and observation that have been conducted with the candidates. In the interviews, one of the participants say that she posted a video comment on the videos that her nephew has created and upload it on YouTube. This is one way for her to keep the family social network since she rarely got a chance to meet them in real life as she lives so miles away. By posting the comments, its somehow complete the media circuit which means the boys will read it and they know that their aunt is participated from far and supported with what they have done.

Another candidates also claimed that they share experiences like posting the videos actually are broaden their relationship with other people. Due to that, they become friends and meet up and finally they produce another video project and upload in on YouTube. This evident shows that by posting video sharing in YouTube will develop the social network within other people.

Next, the other participants reported to those who watched their videos and leave comments may prompt the video maker to counter the poster of the comment. However, on YouTube some participants televise wide information about their identity. This is what we called as public video maker.

Then, according to the other interviewees that have been selected Anjin, he uses his YouTube’s name commercial for his videos. As for Anjin, although there are numbers of viewers who watched the YouTube but most of them do not have an account so by making the videos publicly makes it is more convenience to other people. Compared to other participants, who are better with privately public when posting their videos on YouTube said that they make it private because they don’t want to reveal their identity and keep them safe. One of the participant said he maintained a mysterious persona in a guy Fawkes Mask and vigilante character named “V”. For him, he does not permit posted comments that recommend that wishes to bring down a government. He also added up that he does not subscribe to other’s channels or initiate friend request.

Discussion

Many participants are suggested in this research paper. Profile linkages are not the main way of supporting a social network via Youtube. Posting videos that fellows and relatives could see and respond to is an ordinary practice among the participants. People are free to articulate their feelings of attraction for the video or the video makers by posting comments on it. The interviewees reported closer social correlation will be the stimulated by the intelligent commentary on a video. According to Nissenbaum (2004) argues that some privacy is needed for individuals to self-actualize. For advancing the self and protecting the honor of affiliation, privacy is required. 

The question also comes up likes “why do people involve in “publicly private” behavior? There are two main reasons that have been studied in this article paper. First thing first, there are weaknesses in technical option for defining media circuit as implemented at the time of the research. Many interviewees want to share media with meticulous buddies and family members but did not fancy using friends-only viewing option because it required watchers to have an account. Some candidates encountered difficulty of sharing in public by using limited tagging. In addition, viewing counts and comments systems as a way of gauging viewership is also used by the participants in order to resolve their videos were not “super public” if they did not gather much response.

This article exposes that what comprises how “public” a media circuit is differ, depending on participants’ display of information about themselves and the content that they produce. Dissimilar communications dynamic reflects dissimilar media circuit types. The study has shown that the public and private fractalize in multifaceted way in video making and sharing on YouTube. It also holds what the previous scholar that claims that watching media is not a merely a inactive exercise but rather that film or video viewing in general occupies active understandings that shape response of media messages (Friedman, 2006). On YouTube, the center constituent of participant on the site is frequent dealings between video makers and viewers.

Conclusion

This article shows how technical and symbolic device are used by YouTube participants to attempt to define different social network. In keeping with this focus, a new category of different nuanced behavior types have been proposed. To add it more, design implication also has been introduced in this article. It is very essential to be careful to fractalization touch points where the bigger quantity of publicity or privacy may be needed because there areso many social groups and professional organization added their website with social network site constituents. 

this article is taken from:

Lange, P. G. (2007). Publicly private and privately public: Social networking on YouTube. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 18. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/lange.html 


here is the reflection of the article  :)

Based on this article journal, we found out that different people give different views on social networking. one of the mediums which is famous for time being is YouTube. YouTube is the channel for people to upload and posting any videos that they want either for publicly private or privately public. In addition, we know that the social networking site is invented to make social relationship with other people. Somehow we can make friends with stranger through this advanced technology. However, as educated people we might know the pros and cons of it. by this it means we have to ensures what we do is right and do not give harmful to other people. Thus, from this article we can say that some people like to make their videos in publicly private and some others like to make in privately public. All of these give various of reasons. from our point of views, we think that, making videos in publicly private would be better because from that we can know what other people views about the videos. Actually, it can build our self-consciousness. the viewers are free to drop and leave any comments either in positive or negative way. If the comments are negative, we will take it as a platform for us to improve it.


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