Youtube Online Communities

Cars, Car Show, Parking Lot, Hood, Rims, Performance

In our first week of ESOC 211, we discussed what a community is. The class came to an agreement that a community is a group of people that have something in common. A community of people generally shares common believes, interest, or has a common set of goals in mind. Ideally I would imagine that a community of people also communicate and contributes to whatever the cause may be of the community. Personally I feel that in order for something to be a community, there must be some sort of social interaction between the members of the community. This whole idea of a community then got me thinking what communities I happen to be a part of. Personally, I do not watch tv or any shows on Netflix, Instead I watch youtube channels that take part in similar hobbies that I partake in. For example, I am a car enthusiast and watch a select group of youtubers that are also car enthusiast such as TJHunt, AdamLZ, Donut Media, and the list goes on and on. Not only do I watch car related channels but also mountain bike/bmx related channels. The point is I watch a lot of youtube channels. Within this select group of channels, all the you tubers know of their fellow you tubers, and they share the majority of their audiences amongst each other. Go to any comment section of this channel, and people will be offering advice on car builds and fixes, or pointing out something they saw in someone else video that might help someone else. Not only does this community interact socially online but also in person. These youtubers will put together car meets in which their subscribers can all bring their cars and interact with the youtubers themselves. Within this large platform of youtube, exist many different communities which only exist because of youtube, without it, these youtubers would not be able to make their livings basically making videos for others to watch. Its a really neat example of a community because its only possible because of youtube.

Here is a video on the car community and in the video are some car you tubers...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4pHgrcHtGE

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Steve Jobs Persistence for Perfection

Image
After reading multiple books on Steve Jobs and having watched two movies about his life, I was no stranger to learn from the New Yorker article that Steve Job had a temper. I found it humorous how the article said that "He cries like a small child when he does not get his way." How does someone this impatient and rude, become the genius that he was. Its as simple as he saw a vision, and did not rest until other people's visions aligned with his. Steve Jobs new that his vision in all the technology and programs that he created was truly world changing so it can be understandable his undeniable persistence that he showed toward his co workers, although it surely wasn't pleasant to work with all the time. To me its inspiring how he believed so firmly in his views and would not let others hinder him. I suppose that in my own life I could maybe look back on how persistent he was and apply it towards things that I want to accomplish in my own life. Steve Jobs is an definit
Read more

Everyone Should Edit

Image
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Wikipedia_mini_globe_handheld.jpg             Wikipedia has always been a source of information that I do not use for school work because it is simply not allowed, but as a source of learning on my own because of how accessible and generally accurate the website is. However, I was never really informed on how the website actually accumulated its information. I knew that anyone could edit it, but that was about it. On Tuesday in our collaboration class, I learned that Wikipedia actually has editors that go over new information added to the site and will decide if it is valid or not, edit it, or delete it. We also learned that in the pat Wikipedia team of editors was accused of being very one sided in terms of its scope that its information is written about. For example, Wikipedia was once under fire from the press for having a team of editors mostly made up of white men. Any information we read will always have influences and ways o
Read more