Avatar: an Ideal self...

My Ideal Self

(created in BuddyPoke @ apps.facebook.com/buddypoke/?ref=ts)

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A-V-A-T-A-R

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Q1:  How do you define an avatar?

"Youtube: Broadcasting yourself"., What could be next?

The Youtube Influence

"Once it becomes truly easy to upload video from your phone to YouTube, it could truly become the repository of every captured moment in people’s lives." - Chad Hurley (On The Future Of YouTube: We Will Conquer Every Screen, 2008)

           Youtube's influence spread through out the world starting from the year it was created which is 2005. It's motto, "Broadcasting yourself" attracted different users all through out the globe. It seemed as a motivation for users to express their selves, their interest, talents and skills. With this amazing and unique way of sharing videos online, Youtube became a world wide phenomenon.
     Today, I always hear the name "Youtube" when I watch the news. It would always be about a certain person being discovered in the web using their uploaded video in Youtube. Like the video of Maria Aragon who was recently discovered by Lady Gaga. According to Wikipedia, there are now Youtube Internet Celebrities who uploaded their personal video in the web and were admired by people in the community. 
     Youtube also created a trend on the most viewed video which greatly affected the popularity of a certain person that made that video. With that trend also came competitions between videos and controversies on video rankings according to Wikipedia. 
     With a single video, a person could get millions of attention from people all through out the web. It became a tool on getting the attention of the people. Best examples are the campaign and advertisement videos. With their online campaigning and customer attracting videos, entrepreneurs can attract more customers, convince people and sell more products.  

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The link to the video by Michael Wesch:

http://mediatedcultures.net/mediatedculture.htm