Colleagues/ Seems Obvious To Me ... /Gerry New York Times / January 18, 2009 / Ping At First, Funny Videos. Now, a Reference Tool / By MIGUEL HELFT FACED with writing a school report on an Australian animal, Tyler Kennedy began where many students begin these days: by searching the Internet. But Tyler didn't use Google or Yahoo. He searched for information about the platypus on YouTube. "I found some videos that gave me pretty good information about how it mates, how it survives, what it eats," Tyler said. Similarly, when Tyler gets stuck on one of his favorite games on the Wii, he searches YouTube for tips on how to move forward. [snip] While he favors YouTube for searches, he said he also turns to Google from time to time. Tyler's way of experiencing the Web - primarily through video - may not be mainstream, at least not yet. But his use of YouTube as his favorite search engine underscores a shift that is much broader than the quirky habits of children. The explosion of all types of video content on YouTube and other sites is quickly transforming online video from a medium strictly for entertainment and news into one that is also a reference tool. As a result, video search, on YouTube and across other sites, is rapidly morphing into a new entry point into the Web, one that could rival mainstream search for many types of queries. Additional Excerpts and Link to Full Article Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/8oj885 ] /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come / Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows [ http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]
Hi all, Do you know if there is a search website for webcasting, webTV? I think this would be the next step, ain't it? Best, Adilson Citando "McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]" <gerrymck@iastate.edu>:
Colleagues/
Seems Obvious To Me ...
/Gerry
New York Times / January 18, 2009 / Ping
At First, Funny Videos. Now, a Reference Tool / By MIGUEL HELFT
FACED with writing a school report on an Australian animal, Tyler Kennedy began where many students begin these days: by searching the Internet. But Tyler didn't use Google or Yahoo. He searched for information about the platypus on YouTube.
"I found some videos that gave me pretty good information about how it mates, how it survives, what it eats," Tyler said. Similarly, when Tyler gets stuck on one of his favorite games on the Wii, he searches YouTube for tips on how to move forward. [snip]
While he favors YouTube for searches, he said he also turns to Google from time to time.
Tyler's way of experiencing the Web - primarily through video - may not be mainstream, at least not yet. But his use of YouTube as his favorite search engine underscores a shift that is much broader than the quirky habits of children.
The explosion of all types of video content on YouTube and other sites is quickly transforming online video from a medium strictly for entertainment and news into one that is also a reference tool. As a result, video search, on YouTube and across other sites, is rapidly morphing into a new entry point into the Web, one that could rival mainstream search for many types of queries.
Additional Excerpts and Link to Full Article Available At
/Gerry
Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu
There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come / Victor Hugo
[ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ]
Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows
[ http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]
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acabral@comunicacao.pro.br wrote:
Hi all, Do you know if there is a search website for webcasting, webTV? I think this would be the next step, ain't it? Best, Adilson
http://video.google.com http://tv.blinkx.com/ http://en.fooooo.com/ http://www.truveo.com/ http://www.pixsy.com/ http://www.zuula.com/video_srch/video_index.htm and of course, the search box on http://www.youtube.com/ -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA http://academic.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain
I was minding some website of real-time, online webcasting search. Like Obama's party tomorrow or channels / webTVs on specific topics...not exaclty video files. for Citando "Mark D. Johns" <mjohns@luther.edu>:
acabral@comunicacao.pro.br wrote:
Hi all, Do you know if there is a search website for webcasting, webTV? I think this would be the next step, ain't it? Best, Adilson
http://video.google.com http://tv.blinkx.com/ http://en.fooooo.com/ http://www.truveo.com/ http://www.pixsy.com/ http://www.zuula.com/video_srch/video_index.htm and of course, the search box on http://www.youtube.com/ -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA http://academic.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Mark/ Greetings Central Iowa ! / Thanks for these video search sites. I believe that The Question relates more to the Deep Video Web, e.g., streaming webinars [?] [But I could be wrong ... ] /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu <mailto:gerrymck@iastate.edu> There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come / Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 <https://exchange.iastate.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490> ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows [ http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ <https://exchange.iastate.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/> ] c: Adilson ________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Mark D. Johns Sent: Mon 1/19/2009 6:06 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] YouTube: The Reference Tool acabral@comunicacao.pro.br wrote:
Hi all, Do you know if there is a search website for webcasting, webTV? I think this would be the next step, ain't it? Best, Adilson
http://video.google.com <http://video.google.com/> http://tv.blinkx.com/ http://en.fooooo.com/ http://www.truveo.com/ http://www.pixsy.com/ http://www.zuula.com/video_srch/video_index.htm and of course, the search box on http://www.youtube.com/ -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA http://academic.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org <http://aoir.org/> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Hello all, Along with Heather Horst, we are putting together a special issue of New Media and Society on Mobile Communication and the Developing World. The Call for Papers is reproduced below. Rich L. The Ning address is: http://mobilesociety.ning.com/profiles/blogs/special-issue-of-new-media-and CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL ISSUE OF NEW MEDIA AND SOCIETY: MOBILE COMMUNICATION AND THE DEVELOPING WORLD Rich Ling & Heather A. Horst, guest editors We are seeking papers for a special edition of the journal New Media & Society focusing on mobile communication and media, and its impact on the developing world. We are interested in papers that empirically describe the use of mobile practices as well as the convergence of mobile and other platforms in the developing world (e.g. Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe or other locations in the "global south"). Successful papers will examine the integration and use of mobile communication technology and its implications (both positive and negative) in individuals' lives. We are seeking papers that investigate the global as well as the local appropriations of mobile media use and its relationship to social change and/or development. Papers might address issues such as: * What are the social, cultural, gender related and political dimensions of mobile communication in the developing world? * What are the determinants, obstacles and implications of the adoption and use of mobile communications? * What are the dimensions of inequalities and how does mobile communication address these inequalities? * How does mobile communication facilitate activities such as care giving, coordination, social cohesion, money transfer, commerce, locally and globally? Submissions may be in the form of empirical research studies or theory-building papers and should be 5000 - 7000 words (in English). Papers must reflect new scholarship and not have been previously published (it is possible to submit revised conference papers). Authors interested in submitting to the special issue should send their 200-word abstract to either guest editor (Rich Ling or Heather Horst) on or before 1 March 2009. A sub-set of these abstracts will be selected for further development. Papers based on the abstracts that have been accepted for further consideration, will be due on 15 July 2009. Authors of papers selected for formal review may be invited to participate in a Pre-Conference Workshop at Association of Internet Research meetings on 7 October 2009 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA. About the editors of this NM&S special issue: Rich Ling (richard.ling@telenor.com) is a sociologist at Telenor's research institute located near Oslo, Norway, and a guest Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. He has also been the Pohs visiting professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of the recently published book New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile communication is reshaping social cohesion as well as The Mobile Connection: The cell phone's impact on society, and along with Scott Campbell he is the editor of The Reconstruction of Space and Time Through Mobile Communication Practices. For the past fifteen years, he has worked in the research arm of Telenor and has been active in researching issues associated with new information communication technology and society with a particular focus on mobile telephony. Heather A. Horst (hhorst@uci.edu) is a sociocultural anthropologist at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of California, Irvine. She is the co-author (with Daniel Miller) of The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication that examines the implications of mobile phones for development in Jamaica and is co-author with Mizuko Ito, et al. of a forthcoming book published by MIT Press, entitled Hanging Out, Messing Around and Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media She received her Ph. D. in Social Anthropology from University College London. Before joining UCHRI, she worked as a research fellow at the University of the West Indies and University College London and a postdoctoral scholar at University of Southern California, and University of California, Berkeley where her focus has been on the appropriation of new media and communication technologies in Jamaica and the United States.
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