YouTube case study
YouTube has an influenced my life in terms of providing the video resources for both leisure and academic pursuits. It is my first choice facilitiy when it comes to searching for video resources. It is simliar to a database or a collection of videos that users could put up for public viewing.
The pull factor of YouTube is that it provides video resources of a wide variety of genres and almost anything and everything under the sun, for example of "how to" and personal videos to news abstracts. This caters to a very wide spectrum of viewers as they can find anything of their favourite on the site.
As described earlier, YouTube provides a wide variety of resources, thus, a user is able to search for particular resources for example, if a user is looking for solutions to his mountain trekking trip, he could find personal home made or organisation's videos from veteran trekkers that provide useful tips and solutions that will help aid and improve the way the user can trek. This way it is a form of research and some of the sources are from organisations which are creditable.
However, the negative factor is that the most of the videos posted do not have a proper system of citing the sources, thus, the user might face problems of discerning and evaluating the effectiveness of the source.
Friday, January 23, 2009
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