Hummus Made You Look

Let’s pretend we all share a common definition of social media. Video’s role toward that should be obvious. It’s another way to be social, and arguably more media. While online-video isn’t all social, it’s hard to imagine having a robust social-media presence without video. At the least, video is more social than the written word,…

According to “Always On,” MIT’s Henry Jenkins says that the success of YouTube is from the “creation of content around communities of interest.” It’s not voyeurism and xhibitionism, he says. Or individual self display or expression.  And social networking, says Jenkins, is here to stay. In this short BeetTV clip, Jenkins talks about online video, and the…

Be sure to stay with this YouTube clip. The ghost isn’t, in fact, the old guy at the beginning (that’s CNN’s Larry King). It comes later… way down the hall. Don’t worry- this isn’t a scary prank video. Just an odd shadow that makes people wonder if Michael Jackson’s ghost is still hanging around. But…