"YouTube proves that in practice the economic and cultural rearrangements that “participatory culture” stands for are as disruptive and uncomfortable as they might be potentially liberating. The debates and struggles around YouTube as a site of participatory culture…are less about technology and more about cultural and political questions: who gets to speak, and who gets the attention; what compensations or rewards there are for creativity and work; and the uncertainties around various forms of expertise and authority."
Everyone gets to speak. That's why YouTube is so popular; anyone can post anything. Who gets the attention is the most interesting part. The things that are entertaining to people are usually things that you wouldn't think would get the attention. People doing dumb stunts, drunken things; ugly little girls who are atrocious at singing. Why do people give this stuff attention? Don't they have better stuff to do than watch a 50 year old father visiting his son on parent weekend do a running belly flop on a"Beirut" table in his underwear? Obviously not, that's absolutely awesome, who wouldn't want to see that? Things that people want to see are things they can laugh at whether that laughter comes from making fun of somebody else or seeing something that without any other explanation is just hilarious.
I would like to see what kind of rewards or compensations people get on YouTube because if anything on that list is worthwhile I might have to start uploading my weekends. I can't imagine anyone is getting any actual money. Just like in the south park episode that my blog wouldn't let me post...at the end of the normal YouTube url put this: watch?v=sjtCN4aNLMc
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