Sharing Parenthood on

1. Sharing Parenthood:
Images of Children on
Katie Elson Anderson
Rutgers University
PCA/ACA, April 13, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/AndersonPCA20
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2.  Founded in 2005
 Purchased by Google in 2006
 Over 4 billion videos viewed per day
 800M unique visitors monthly
 More than 1 trillion views in 2011.
 60 hours of video uploaded every minute
 “Broadcast Yourself”
YouTube Statistics

3. Home Video
 Shared with family and friends
 Amateur
 Babies (capture changes)
 Special occasions to mundane,
everyday events
 Previously contained within private
circles

4. Technology
 Film (8mm, 16mm)
 Video
 Digital
 Web Cams/PC’s
 Phones
 Tablets

5. Sharing
 Single instance showing- people
came to you.
 VHS- Duplicate and share- America’s
Funniest Home Video
 Digital- email/upload

6. Toddler Online Presence
92% U.S
73% Western Europe
http://mashable.com/2010/10/07/toddlers-online-presence

7. Viral Video
The term "viral video" refers to video clip
content which gains widespread popularity
through the process of Internet sharing,
typically through email or instant
messages, blogs, and other media-sharing
websites, such as YouTube.
(urbandictionary.com)

8. David after Dentist
109,667,568

9. Charlie bit my finger- again!
443,783,371

10. rotection
rivacy
arody
rofit

11. “Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep
for the future of humanity just for the spelling
alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked
hatred”
-Lev Grossman, Time, 2006

14. SHAYTARDS
My First Hardcore Song

15. Anne Higonnet: Romantic Child Gary Cross: Gremlin Child

16. “Performing Childhood on the Web”
Fleeting Images: Portrayals of Children
in Popular Culture, edited by Vibiana
Bowman Cvetkovic and Debbie Olsen.
Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books
(forthcoming 2012).
Slide background Image adapted from Phillip Bragg’s May 2009
photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/synx508/3503645137/