Ce paragraphe explique bien les difficultés insoupçonnées de parler devant une caméra sans avoir la moindre idée de qui est à l'autre bout.
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many would-be first-time vloggers perplexed by the webcam, often reporting that they spent several hours transfixed in front of the lens, trying to decide what to say
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Barry ParmetThe problem is not lack of context. It is context collapse: an infinite number of contexts collapsing upon one another into that single moment of recording. The images, actions, and words captured by the lens at any moment can be transported to anywhere o
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05 Dec 09
evgeny yauhenioAfter watching my presentation on YouTube, several people have asked me for a specific definition of “context collapse.” Here is an excerpt taken from the middle of a paper called “YouTube and You: Experiences of Self-Awareness in the Context Collapse of the Recording Webcam” that I recently submitted for peer-review. (Skip to the fourth paragraph for the definition of context collapse):
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30 Nov 09
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Digital Ethnography
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26 Oct 09
Rem PalpittThe problem is not lack of context. It is context collapse: an infinite number of contexts collapsing upon one another into that single moment of recording. The images, actions, and words captured by the lens at any moment can be transported to anywhere on the planet and preserved (the performer must assume) for all time.
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Prof Wesch
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The problem is not lack of context. It is context collapse: an infinite number of contexts collapsing upon one another into that single moment of recording. The images, actions, and words captured by the lens at any moment can be transported to anywhere on the planet and preserved (the performer must assume) for all time.
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21 Oct 09
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01 Jun 09
INF 6107Qui suis-je, et comment me présenter quand je parle directement à une caméra? La question est plus profonde qu'elle ne le semble.
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Add Sticky NoteThe would-be vlogger, now frozen in front of this black hole of contexts, faces a crisis of self-presentation. In Goffman’s terms, the would-be vlogger is “out of face” with no “line” to present, unable to size up the context and situation (1967, p.14). Like a building collapse, context collapse does not create a total void but a chaotic version of its once ordered self. The would-be vlogger sits stultified as his imagination races through the nearly infinite possible contexts he might be entering, all of which pile up as parts, pieces, and pieces of parts, a rubble that becomes the ground on which he must struggle to get his footing. The familiar walls that help limit and define the context are gone. He must address anybody, everybody, and maybe even nobody all at once.
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30 Nov 08
Tim FawnsIn face-to-face communication events we carefully assess the context of the interaction in order to decide how we will act, what we will say, and how we might try to construct and present ourselves. What about on Youtube?
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The problem is not lack of context. It is context collapse: an infinite number of contexts collapsing upon one another into that single moment of recording. The images, actions, and words captured by the lens at any moment can be transported to anywhere on the planet and preserved (the performer must assume) for all time. The little glass lens becomes the gateway to a blackhole sucking all of time and space – virtually all possible contexts – in upon itself.
The would-be vlogger, now frozen in front of this black hole of contexts, faces a crisis of self-presentation. In Goffman’s terms, the would-be vlogger is “out of face” with no “line” to present, unable to size up the context and situation (1967, p.14). Like a building collapse, context collapse does not create a total void but a chaotic version of its once ordered self. The would-be vlogger sits stultified as his imagination races through the nearly infinite possible contexts he might be entering, all of which pile up as parts, pieces, and pieces of parts, a rubble that becomes the ground on which he must struggle to get his footing. The familiar walls that help limit and define the context are gone. He must address anybody, everybody, and maybe even nobody all at once.
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I don’t think context collapse is new. It is just broader, deeper, and more pervasive with new media. Context collapse is less dependent on form (e.g. writing vs. video) and more on distribution (how many people might receive the message) and time (synchronous vs. asynchronous).
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From Mead’s (1934) perspective, the self *is* the internalization of the viewpoint of others (what he calls, the “generalized other”). One could argue that the idea that one can be “more like themselves” is a specific Western existentialist dilemma … brilliantly portrayed in this I Heart Huckabees clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqgpn87hFYc
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I don’t have an answer, but I have formulated 2 possibilities (largely in discussions with Adam Bohannon):
1. we all create public personas suitable for the infinite contexts of context collapse
2. the more pervasive reality of context collapse creates a culture that accepts the fact that people’s identities are fluid through different contexts and accept and expect multiple identities -
I think the high premium placed on authenticity among YouTubers has something to say about what you’re getting at. It’s a value held by many of those who participate on YouTube and thus is reflected among them and internalized by them (according to Mead). The interesting thing is, at its core, authenticity is a value of “being yourself,” yet in striving to do so (on YouTube at least) it could be said you are being everyone else.
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Another possibility, to bring in context collapse, could be that YouTubers are given the opportunity to fluidly switch between personae (since their context isn’t clearly defined) and maybe they (we) are settling on a persona they feel the most comfortable presenting. It feels more “authentic.”
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I find trying to blog to be difficult in the way that you describe. I find myself very confused about who I am writing to. Publishing done before the internet had an editor and screening by a publisher. With the internet, I have to check my own ideas without feedback on how they are perceived (as an editor would do). I wonder whether people who grew up writing on the internet feel less vulnerable. Do we come from different cultures that lead us to experience context collapse in different ways.
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“Who am I?” is a wonderful portal into an inner dialog about some of the deepest aspects of ourselves. What I see online participation doing is causing many people to put themselves into these context divorced environments where they are being forced to ask this question
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Some of them express what seems to be a core identity. Some of them are very playful, realizing that they can be anyone (because there is no context tying them down to a certain identity). Some of them invent identities they think represent them.
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On an individual level, if I create “public personas suitable for the infinite contexts of context collapse”, what is unique about me? What differentiates me from anyone else if we are all creating infinite personas for infinite contexts?
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if “the more pervasive reality of context collapse creates a culture that accepts the fact that people’s identities are fluid through different contexts and accept and expect multiple identities”, what is it that unifies the person enough to have the same name across fluid identities, for instance? Is the only thing connecting our identities in the eyes of the culture our meatspace bodies?
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sharing induces synchrony: heart rate, brain rhythms, etc. Massive social benefits emerge from this kind of synchrony, which blurs the lines between physiology, affect, and consciousness. But of course lower-bandwidth connections (webcams, writing, etc.) make these kinds of synchrony more difficult–though also more interestingly concentrated at times, a true paradox. (Call it the “stick-figure” paradox, in which a few bold suggestions of form can be more compelling than complexly realized CGI, perhaps because of the “uncanny valley” effect?)
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I find the discussion regarding the self very interesting. It seems to me the only accessible alternative when it comes to choosing an audience in the context of context collapse. Because how would you go about addressing anybody, everybody and nobody all at once? My answer is that you wouldn’t. Which leaves yourself.
“Tim 2″ mentions the mirror held up to ones self. What I blog or vlog and what I write in my profile on MySpace does perhaps communicate more to myself than to anyone else, since these outlets becomes externalisations of myself that are capable of not only mirroring me, but also communicating aspects of my being to myself that only I can understand in a fundamental way.
To an observer, these varying images of my “self” may appear like fluid identities, but to my “self”, they combine inte one.
They are all me.
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I am constantly looking for my own mails all over the place, many written years ago, where I managed to “get it right”.
The collapse of context is maybe also a collaps of time, or the abolishon of sequence. Every screen is as digitally fresh today as any other day.
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ken .Goffman's tone and temper of the current context (who, what, when, where) - "As social beings, we have become remarkably adept at sizing up such situations" (and how we fit into it) - "face" as much more than just the face, face-work is not solo-work but
blogging context culture dance identity questions social web
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08 Aug 08
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Nick DrandakisMichael Wesch writes about the "context collapse" wich he mentions on his Anthropology of YouTube video.
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03 Aug 08
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01 Aug 08
Angus HongHere is an excerpt taken from the middle of a paper called “YouTube and You: Experiences of Self-Awareness in the Context Collapse of the Recording Webcam” that I recently submitted for peer-review.
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31 Jul 08
Cherice MontgomeryInteresting article . . . "context collapse"
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