YouTube: The Ebb and Flow of the Sea of Video

Rebecca Bozin
Mitchell Pirera

Preface:
This Mixed Media Essay exploring the ways in which YouTube has influence both the production and viewing of video content has been presented as series of blog posts. In doing so we hope to reveal our abilities as Network literate content producers whilst focusing the actual content of the piece upon YouTube its and the discourse which surrounds the platform’s presentation of the video. Presented as individual blog posts this essay will explore a different subject, in doing so we allow the reader to traverse the essay at will. This allows the reader consume particular posts in isolation or as a part of a larger work. The feed nature of a blog in which time order dictates post’s position eludes to only one of many combinations the piece can be read in. The decision to present our essay is influenced both by the content of our writing and also the platform itself. Discussing YouTube in relation to hypertext is something that fits within the Media Factory platform on wordpress allowing peers to read and interact with hopefully discussing ideas they find relevant to their own research. The blogging platform allows for us to add categories and tags to the post, so that the post can exist as an identified group but aren’t isolated on an external web server and can be easily located. We have grouped all posts under the category of “YouTube: The Ebb and Flow of the Sea of Video” and then each post has individually tagged to reflect the content of the post. This tagging allows for people outside of the RMIT to find our assignment and for readers to discover other pieces of writing exploring the same subject.