Primary Concepts:

1) YouTube facilitates discourse

- can be either constructive or deconstructive

- structures of YouTube (due to its biases) may be conducive to or more responsive towards a particular form of discourse (dualistic; binary; debate discourse)

2) cultures impart meaning (in the form of their values) onto the media the use

- /cultures transform and give meaning to that which they interact with

3) media are relative and flexible, can be structured and used differently

4) face may develop with age; the nature and awareness of face on YouTube

Scene-Pool (interesting/intriguing thoughts on how to convey various themes of the video):

• compile several similar response phrases into a single sequence - conveys consistancy in discourse methods

• montage of stereotypes; negative/deconstructive uses; positive/constructive uses (in both video and comment responses)

• use interviews (Dr. al-Salim + Islamic Center students) as commentary on "meat-space's" thoughts/understanding/mannnner of affect of discourse

Version 1:

1) Intro - YouTube facilitates discourse
(show rapid examples of asynchronous exchanges, comment exchanges, and other related images/footage)
- can be both constructive/deconstructive
- illustrate (perhaps abstractly); again, video, images, and comments

2) Discourse on Islam - analysis of this, due to its particularly sensationalized, misunderstood, yet widely discussed religion:
- offers insight into one several cultures’ perceptions of themselves, as well as how they understand ‘others’ to perceive them
- religion, being at the superstructural apex of culture, offers direct insight into a cultural values; stereotypes offer similarly powerful understandingsof these

- again, YouTube facilitates both constructive and deconstructive discourse
- juxtapose Queen Rania and Pat Condelle clips and responses(+ surplus conversations)

3) cultures impart meaning onto the media they use
- evidence this explicitly with text overlays where appropriate in 1 and 2
- type of discourse seen reflects a culture and its values (cultural relativity)
- demonstrate the characteristic forms of discourse that the YouTube Community
4) propensity is towards dualistic/binary/debate-focused discourse
- evidence with clip examples and format of comments (thumbs up/down; nature of responses and comments and manner in which they are presented/content of their contribution to discussion)

5) media are both relative and flexible
… this is a tough one… at the moment, text overlay with relevant images/film, but no effective use of actual Islam-discourse… becomes somewhat abandoned here…