Booker - analysis/observations of Digg - possibly looking at possibility of mobilizing groups/vigilante justice through Digg (Xbox story)

Jessie - Analysis of Identity Crisis of First Vlogs
Jessie's fieldnotes
Jessie's insights and analysis

Nick: YouTube Community
Mission: convey the importance of community in spread of user-generated videos, and future role of community as it converges with traditional media.

• Main Points
• User communities are as necessary as they are natural
• Friends, favorites, channels, subscribers, comments and discussion catalyze popularity
• Sense of connection, obligations to friends, communitues
  
• Changes for traditional media
• Role of "scouts" in finding, discovering new content
• Creation of many niche communities, demograpgics
• Maven users (influential users naturally spread messages with greater ease)
• Users gain sense of participation, feedback
• advantages: greater investment into medium (YouTube, internet streaming), increased ease of video frequency, videos accessible through other online mediums/networks
• "response content" limitless, effective
• Transitions/exchanges between top-down & bottom-up content
• top-down content remixed, fed bottom-up
• bottom-up content picked up, fed top-down
• Popular users emerge as central nodes, develop surrounding communities
• examples for video: spricket24, etc.

Rachel - I want to pursue the vein of why people you tube and who is vlogging, and how peoples lives change in meatspace when those thatdo make such a tremendousimpact online with vlogs etc.

Andrew - From a microcosm to the macrocosmic (page moved here)

Melissa -

Frankie - analysing how video gain popularity and spread through Digg even though they are posted on other sites.