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Reality Question for you YouTubers!
I am part of a team of researchers doing an ethnography of YouTube culture for a class at Kansas State University taught by Dr. Michael Wesch (mwesch). We are creating a video documentary of YouTube that will be posted to YouTube at the conclusion of our research. We will also be writing papers and giving conference presentations on this research. To see our work in progress, visit our blog at http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg. If you have any questions or concerns you may contact Dr. Michael Wesch at mike.wesch@gmail.com or Dr. Rick Scheidt, Chair, Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects, 203 Fairchild Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, (785) 532-3224.

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This is a very ... ( 1 year ago by TabithaRobin)

This is a very interesting video. This is a great question. You have more nerve than I do. I could never talk on a video and put it on the internet. I am to shy. That is why I just write. Go figure. But this is Great. We must ask ourselves, Are we real? Are we real all the time? Do we live in a fantasy world? Who are we really?
Great Clip.

This is a great ... ( 10 months ago by freyesvargas)

This is a great video. Just because of you and the people at KSU with the ethnography project, I am going to begin posting videos on youtube. You have made me realize the inmense power of video broadcasting.
As far as your question, I think reality is what you believe it is because you can choose what you want to believe. If you believe it is reality, then it is or not.

you can't "produce" ... ( 9 months ago by Roadkill155)

you can't "produce" it, it's just there

What happens on ... ( 8 months ago by Lancemaker)

What happens on internet is not in all cases, virtual. Read "what is the virtual" from Pierre lévy for this explanation. A conference or a video conference happens like a fone call, in a place that is anywere at anytime. But its real. All production is real but it can last for ever (like an ideia or a web page) or for some time, like an oil painting canvas or an hardware processor.

So what is virtual ... ( 8 months ago by Lancemaker)

So what is virtual ?
Virtual is somethin that dont have a defined image, or form. It is a question, or a problem, that is not solved. A blank peace of paper and a poet form a virtual thing. The poet have a problem and is trying to solve it. Wikipedia is vitual, becouse it a place where problems can be solved. A programer, a poet and even a field worker can have virtuality without computers. Virtuality is about a problem that dont have a alredy made solution.

So virtual is real ... ( 8 months ago by Lancemaker)

So virtual is real witout beeing solved. I will demonstrate: i want to make a house. now i have a problem. I will have do draw a home-design, and in this process i will creat a solution to my problem. In this process i turn an undefined cloud in an plant. This is the virtual. This what we are doing here is virtual, trying to solve a problem together. This is real. And this will produce your paper

where i said plant, ... ( 8 months ago by Lancemaker)

where i said plant, i wanted to say schematics. Sorry about my bad english. Im trying hard here.

drugs ( 6 months ago by sekhon311)

drugs

it's fun...real? ... ( 6 months ago by teedubyo)

it's fun...real? idk. fun? lol rotfl fun. intelligent? at times
counterproductive? idk. real? No!

never try to turn ... ( 5 months ago by HempForPresident)

never try to turn on an electronic device when it's wet. that's when the damage happens.

Everything is real ... ( 5 months ago by filmmakingcarlos)

Everything is real as it's part of our experience of reality. Fiction is real, a lie is real... But our experience of reality is so limited that it would be easier to simply say that nothing at all is real. "Reality" is no more than a word we use to talk about what we live, what surround us... But -in my opinion- it's just a word.

Don't lie! :P You ... ( 5 months ago by soundsfromnothing)

Don't lie! :P You were taking a dump & talking on the phone. This, my friends, is a female thing. My friend dropped her cell phone in the toilet this way. My sister dropped her house phone, & my grandmother has done the same. Ladies, leave the phone on the hook; It will be there when you finish your business(promise). This will save you money(as you won't have to keep buying a new phone or -worst case scenario- have to call Roto Rooter. Remember: When you're on the throne, leave the phone alone.

Everything is a big ... ( 5 months ago by SafetyLight)

Everything is a big ol' hologram. (Space between and within atoms being what it is. There is only 'energy', blah blah blah.) Only Thought is real.
In the world of thought there are falsehoods and truths. Real is that which is True. The medium is not relevant.
Simple.
Here's a truth: Cell Phones fuzz awareness. Maybe you dropped yours twice on purpose. The toilet was the right place. Now THERE'S a metaphor!
In a world made of thought, metaphor is king.
Listen to the subconscious. It knows.

Array ( 5 months ago by ritmnews)

Becky:
Reality is a judgement, but as such, to make that judgement correctly we'd need to be both infinitely objective and infinitely wise, and if so, we'd probably not then need YouTube.

try a blow dryer to ... ( 5 months ago by kenellak)

try a blow dryer to dry out your phone, and yes we are creating reality. everything we do as humans does something to reality.

if it's this hard ... ( 4 months ago by babaybluebutterfly)

if it's this hard to figure out whats real...
how the crap are we gonna figure out whats fake?

reality = a plane ... ( 4 months ago by gambara29)

reality = a plane of existence, most of all you create our own reality. u can only INFLUENCE other people's reality. point is this all reality is an illusion. what is "real" like real life ya... u go ahead and think its real b/c u can touch it.... enstien e=mc square... nothing is real but consciousness but what is that? point is humanity knows nothing of nothing our whole society and reality on this planet is a construct or idea of a person not "real" just a program.

Well for myself I ... ( 4 months ago by Hypholia)

Well for myself I just think there is not just one reality there is many of them and we adapt ourselves to wich one of them. We have many identities too and it's not just an youtube thing. You don't act the same way if you're talking to a kid or a policeman or with you're boyfriend, etc. Are you acting because of that ? No, you just choose the more appropriate part of you're personnality, you adapt. Well that's my opinion.

Talking in real ... ( 3 months ago by echever7)

Talking in real life...talking to youtubers, hmmmm. Soon, talking to youtubers must be considered as 'real life'. Youtube, the net is part of our realities. We already designed what 'mask' put to go on youtube, what mask we like, and what dislike, as in 'real life'. Is talking to the phone 'real life'?.Yes, of course, but once upon a time this question was crucial. Talking to an individuum you don`t see was kind of traumatic at the dawn of telecommunications.
P.S I like you. Really

I think Baudrillard ... ( 3 months ago by self0surr)

I think Baudrillard would've enjoyed a lot watching this video...
the MIRROR moment, also seen in the conference-videoproject of Wesch is ...
as the discover of 'the holy moment' in André Bazin's words, ...
M. Wesch with his team (with you) are doing a great job. THANKS.

i really enjoyed ... ( 1 month ago by sylvanpine)

i really enjoyed the video, the question even more! which i will definitely respond to.
but since it's a long response i will give u a video response. in order to do that i will have to go out and buy a webcam and a microphone! because your question was stimulating enough for me to actually go to the trouble of doing so :D
never the less, i will post my video response, soon...
take care and say high to prof wesch for me!
love his work

You are effectively ... ( 1 month ago by Heissenburger)

You are effectively talking to me via your "this" (web-cam, another mediator besides air) .
A "non-essentialist" accepts that reality is (at least partially) reflexive, so you are (co-)creating reality, not just being a passive observer. Via YouTube, you can make new friends even across the globe, and/but there is nothing to stop your usual friends from seeing what a freak you can be on YouTube. 'Virtual' reality is a part of 'real' reality.

Resistance is ... ( 1 month ago by rhov233)

Resistance is futile! We will assimilate you!

I thought that's ... ( 3 days ago by horuzrizing)

I thought that's what marketing was for--creating "reality". Existence is an ever-expanding system of systems? Existence is information? Information as host,as parysite, manipulator, manipulated--hungry for info. Existence is cyclic, verb, evolutionary. Create--maybe. Change--for sure. In and out, left and right, photo negative and print positive. Did I create this comment, or did R. Dawkins and Wallace Black Elk? I'm sorry. What was the question?

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