This is long, but worth a watch. Some key points to look out for are:
* we are made via relationships with others, so new media (YouTube, Facebook) could be changing how we see ourselves (13 minutes in)
* analysis of ‘whatever!’
* ‘context collapse’ – videoing yourself for YouTube is like ‘talking to myself’ - you are talking to everybody and so to nobody and so to yourself.
* people share extremely personal information and feelings via new media* ‘new forms of community promote new forms of self-understanding’
Having gone through a fairly dire analysis of communication mediated via new media, he ends optimistically – not ‘whatever’, but we will do whatever it takes to change things.
