2. YouTube was released in April 2005.

3. Produced more programming than some of the major channels have in the last 60 years.

4. ‘Numa Numa Craze’-one video travels across the world and everyone joins in recreating it-brings people together.

5. Web is now about linking people-everything is connected.

6. YouTube allows people around the world to collaborate with each other.

7. Videos are linked to other sites e.g. tags (User generated-organisation and distribution)

8. Videos travel-integrated media scope.

9. Media mediates human relationships.

10. Youth/young adults-strongest age group that feature in YouTube videos.

11. Loss of community-due to women joining the workforce, TVs isolating social groups.

12. People can express their individualism through YouTube but still value community.

13. Talking to a camera-unknown person/audience.

14. Can form a new identity/mask.

15. YouTube can help people to reflect upon themselves.

16. Hatred-public performances.

17. Free hug campaign- man becomes an icon, it goes worldwide.

18. Love story-YouTube..emo kid turned out to be a fake-authenticity crisis.

19. Hard to tell fact from fiction-people don’t like being fooled.

20. On YouTube everones a producer.

21. Can play with identity. Zoe’s Notes<br />What does the development of the Internet, specifically YouTube, mean for identity? <br />YouTube released in April 2005 <br />New forms of community <br />Web cam = more power to the people <br />Web 2.0 - allows ways of linking people in unparalleled ways <br />When media changes - human relationships change <br />The loss of community (through the workforce, more people working following the World War 2, women working, smaller retailers move to large conglomerates, the invention of TV meant that humans watched this rather than see/socialise with neighbours/friends etc) = YouTube can now fill this void <br />Communities are connected through roads and TVs and computers, mobile phones = communication through technology <br />Increasingly individual cultures/individuals but each long for community that inevitably is lacking in their individuality <br />YouTube creates community/friendship <br />Deep communication with other humans as you can share, re-watch etc = connection = voyeuristic capabilities, allowing you to watch and stare as much or as little as you want, in the privacy of your own room, without feeling awkward <br />Playing with identity - remove elaborate what is real... what is real? Should everything on YouTube be real....? Consider this debate <br />You can be anyone on YouTube.. the possibilities are endless...playing with identity...good debate possibilities here <br />Free hugs phenomenon - strongly suggests this desire of being wanted and feeling a sense of belonging/part of a community <br />Criminality of lifting material - legality issues as most of what you find on YouTube has been 'lifted' <br />