Comments on: Don’t Tase Me, Such as, Leave Her Alone: When Life is a YouTube Video http://www.faithd.com/2008/01/06/dont-tase-me-such-as-leave-her-alone-when-life-is-a-youtube-video/ Youth, Church and Culture Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:26:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Drew http://www.faithd.com/2008/01/06/dont-tase-me-such-as-leave-her-alone-when-life-is-a-youtube-video/#comment-50 Drew Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:48:16 +0000 http://www.faithd.com/2008/01/06/dont-tase-me-such-as-leave-her-alone-when-life-is-a-youtube-video/#comment-50 The Gabler quote reminds me of something I read qa while ago by another pundit (I forget whom) regarding how the OJ trial in '94 changed everything. The phenomenon was that as people were watching the Bronco in LA, residents from LA went out to see it as it drive past thus becoming part of the event they were witnessing. It blurred the distinction between audience and event; the distinction between consuming the media and becoming the object of the media itself. I forget where I read that but it would be worth checking out again in this kind of context. I also wonder how much of You Tube functions as a kind of detournement, but not in the sense of a protest, but a catalyst to sort of cheapen reality in a sense... Hmmm... The Gabler quote reminds me of something I read qa while ago by another pundit (I forget whom) regarding how the OJ trial in ‘94 changed everything. The phenomenon was that as people were watching the Bronco in LA, residents from LA went out to see it as it drive past thus becoming part of the event they were witnessing. It blurred the distinction between audience and event; the distinction between consuming the media and becoming the object of the media itself. I forget where I read that but it would be worth checking out again in this kind of context.

I also wonder how much of You Tube functions as a kind of detournement, but not in the sense of a protest, but a catalyst to sort of cheapen reality in a sense…

Hmmm…

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