by Raizel Liebler Who makes sure that YouTube is available? Google. And the recent YouTube “outage” proves that even Google can’t always make sure that…
by Keidra Chaney The YouTube Music Awards are a great idea. While Spotify and Pandora gets most of the attention (and the scorn) when it…
by Keidra Chaney I’ve previously written about YouTube’s role as a community-curated archive of television shows, commercials and music videos – it’s an interesting example…
Last Sunday evening, I was settled on my couch, resigned to the fact that I was going to be watching YouTube videos of Dillinger Escape…
by Keidra Chaney Doctor Who fan/video historian Babelcolour recently updated his popular video overview/tribute to the Doctor Who universe, compiling clips from 226 Doctor Who…
I don’t watch a whole lot of television these days. I get most of my entertainment online, and when I do watch television programming, it’s…
If you have watched television since February, especially sports programming, then you have likely seen at least one of the Old Spice commercials, The Man…
Until recently, Clay Shirky was best known as the author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. The book was widely praised…
Ignoring cultural context has led to some incredibly bizarre cease-and-desist notices recently. Yet intellectual property and culture are tied together. New works are not created…
After a truly great time presenting about fan culture two years ago at MIT5: Creativity, Ownership, and Collaboration in the Digital Age, we presented at…