2a: YouTube is a computing innovation of the 21st century at its core is a video-sharing website where users share and view content. As YouTube progressed, however, it became a platform with many functionalities; news, comedy, music, sports, gaming, TV-shows, and movies. YouTube serves as a place for careers, information and entertainment all at once. My computational artifact uses images, with minimal text, to illustrate how YouTube has affected us through its functions. It displays the way YouTube helps create careers and emotional support, but also spreads dangerous and misleading information.
2b: Using a photoshop program called Paint.NET and google images, I created my artifact.
2c: YouTube is beyond a platform to watch videos on, it has beneficial and …show more content…
One benefit is that YouTube helps with depression and/or anxiety. “There was something nice about knowing someone who was doing so well on YouTube was struggling with the exact same feelings as me," said Madelaine (Morse, Felicity). People explain how watching YouTube made them feel less isolated and offers them a bigger perspective of their struggles (Meagan/Justich, Kerry). Another benefit is the way YouTube has changed education, anyone with the internet can now have professors lecture them anywhere at any time, helping the spread of information and education (Harven, Michelle). Like the channel Khan Academy that provides everyone with free education (O'Neill, Megan). Moreover, YouTube can also spread political news and garner attention to lesser known, but important, topics. Nonprofits are using YouTube campaigns to raise millions and receive signatures for petitions to save the rainforests (O'Neill, Megan). YouTube also helped reveal the truth about the death of Neda Agha-Soltan during the Iranian election in 2009, causing the world to start paying attention to Iran’s elections (O'Neill, Megan). Consequently, with the power to spread correct information, there is the possibility of false
2b: Using a photoshop program called Paint.NET and google images, I created my artifact.
2c: YouTube is beyond a platform to watch videos on, it has beneficial and …show more content…
One benefit is that YouTube helps with depression and/or anxiety. “There was something nice about knowing someone who was doing so well on YouTube was struggling with the exact same feelings as me," said Madelaine (Morse, Felicity). People explain how watching YouTube made them feel less isolated and offers them a bigger perspective of their struggles (Meagan/Justich, Kerry). Another benefit is the way YouTube has changed education, anyone with the internet can now have professors lecture them anywhere at any time, helping the spread of information and education (Harven, Michelle). Like the channel Khan Academy that provides everyone with free education (O'Neill, Megan). Moreover, YouTube can also spread political news and garner attention to lesser known, but important, topics. Nonprofits are using YouTube campaigns to raise millions and receive signatures for petitions to save the rainforests (O'Neill, Megan). YouTube also helped reveal the truth about the death of Neda Agha-Soltan during the Iranian election in 2009, causing the world to start paying attention to Iran’s elections (O'Neill, Megan). Consequently, with the power to spread correct information, there is the possibility of false