Nowadays, everybody uses YouTube, ordinary people enjoy making and sharing funny videos online, students like us analyze videos on YouTube to finish our presentation and blogs. However, can you tell the reason why do thousands people there like YouTube? YouTube contains so many racist, sexist, violence, homophobic and absence messages. Teenagers may get affected negatively; social influence may become a major concern, but YouTube Still has tons of fans. Why? As recently as 2008 John C. Paolillo observed that ‘there is no clear picture of how people use YouTube and why.’ The surrounding culture of confessional practices can be said to predispose individuals to make video diaries about their lives. In my opinion, most of the people go to YouTube for self-representation. I mean, we are socialized to embrace self-expression via video. Advertisements for consumer electronics tell use this is normal, television shows us how to do it, our peers lead the way, and social norms reassure us that it is acceptable. In other words, YouTube just provides a platform for people to express and show themselves. Also, for me, pleasure and vanity are great motivators to be a YouTuber. There are also more material matters of utility and convenience that explain our Youtube compulsions. People use YouTube for distributing video holiday greetings, wishing friends happy birthday, celebrating anniversaries, births, and deaths. To some, YouTube remains a mystery. As Lange observes, “people who do not regularly participate on YouTube may not understand why people watch seemingly poor quality or odd videos. The answer to the question “why do you’ Tube” I s as broad as the answer to the question “why do human communicate?”
Just like a community, it is made up of those who fit and those who do not fit well with norms and tacit rules. Internet communities have long been plagued by those who do not play well with others. The people who posts rude and often racist, sexist, homophobic, or obscene messages are just like those people. It won’t be a big issue if YouTube set some regulations properly. However, as some countries concern in as political view, they may just forbid YouTube in their countries. It is quite controversial to discuss this topic further.
But one thing we should notice is that “New media practices typically change faster that institutionalized modes of representation. It remains to be seen how well military and electoral campaigns will adapt to mass participation in video making. From the global to the local, YouTube and amateur video are now deeply embedded media practices and touch upon all areas of life.”(Watching YouTube, Michael Strangelove)
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