Sidarth, who worked for the campaign of Allen's Democratic competitor Jim Webb and was following him with a video camera, as a “macaca.” Media commentators later argued that “macaca” was a Northern African slur for dark-skinned people which Allen may or may not have picked up from his mother, a native Algerian (who was, as it turned out shortly after Allen had gotten into trouble for his supposedly repeated use of racial slurs, of Sephardic Jewish descent), but which was not a common racial slur in rural Virginia. At one point he addressed an Indian-American in the audience, S.R. On August 11, 2006, at one of his campaign rallies in a rural area of Virginia, George Allen spoke to a crowd of supporters. This remarkable volume brings together renowned film and media scholars to debate the problems and potential of "broadcasting yourself." The YouTube Reader takes on claims of newness, immediacy, and popularity with sytematic and theoretically informed arguments, offering a closer look at the available texts on YouTube and the policies and norms that govern their access and use. The YouTube Reader is the first full-length book to explore YouTube as an industry, archive, and cultural form. As the fastest growing site in the history of the Web, YouTube promises endless new opportunities for amateur video, political campaigning, entertainment formats, and viral marketing-a clip culture that has seemed to outpace both cinema and television. With more than seventy million unique users a month and approximately eighty million videos online, this brand-name video distribution platform holds the richest repository of popular culture on the Internet. YouTube has come to epitomize the possibilities of digital culture. Editors: Geert Lovink and Andreas Treske Copy editor: Jack Wilson Cover design: Berkay Donmez Design and EPUB development: Tommaso Campagna Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2020 ISBN/EAN Paperback: 978-94-9 ISBN EPUB: 978-94-9 This publication is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Lange, Hang Li, Patrick Lichty, Geert Lovink, Gabriel Menotti, Sabine Niederer, Dan Oki, Aras Ozgun, Daniel Pinheiro, Rahee Punyashloka, Albert Figurt, Oliver Lerone Schultz, Ana Peraica, Forian Schneider, Peter Snowdon, Andreas Treske, Colette Tron, Jack Wilson, Dino Ge Zhang. Click, browse, swipe, like, share, save, and enjoy! Contributors: Annie Abrahams, Ina Blom, Natalie Bookchin, Pablo deSoto, Ben Grosser, Adnan Hadzi, Judit Kis, Patricia G. The contributions herein respond to a broad range of emerging and urgent topics, from bias in YouTube’s algorithms to the use of video in messaging, image theory, the rise of deep fakes, a reconsideration of the history of video art, a reflection on the continuing role and influence of music video, indy servers, synthetic intimacies, love and sadness, artist videos, online video theory in the age of platform capitalism, video as online activism, and the rise of streaming. This third anthology covers the turbulent period from Video Vortex #7 (2013) in Yogyakarta, across the meetings that followed in Zagreb, Lüneburg, Istanbul, Kochi, and finally Malta in 2019, where the foundations for this publication where laid before its production began in the midst of the corona crisis. The first Video Vortex reader came out in 2008, followed by a second in 2011. Video Vortex has produced two anthologies, a website, a mailing list, 12 international conferences, several art exhibitions, and more to come as the internet and video continue to merge and miniaturize. Are you addicted yet? Look into that tiny camera, talk, move the phone, show us around - prove to others that you exist! Founded in 2007, Video Vortex is a lively network of artists, activists, coders, curators, critics, and researchers linked by the exchange of ideas, materials, and discussions both online and offline. Now, in the age of the smartphone, video accompanies, informs, moves, and distracts us. INC Reader #14 Video Vortex Reader III: Inside the YouTube Decade Editors: Geert Lovink and Andreas Treske What is online video today, fifteen years into its exponential growth? What started with amateur work of YouTube prosumers has spread to virtually all communication apps: an explosion in the culture of mobile sound and vision.
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