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The YouTube Community is Imaginary
🕑 Added 2017-12-29 19:11:08 +0000 UTC Hello lovely patrons! Here's a new video talking about Benedict Anderson and imagined communities, as applied to YouTube! Enjoy!
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Old But Not Wise
That word "community" -- it triggers a deep distrust in me. Any us/them distinction has costs as well as benefits, and the positive connotations around the word "community" hide the fact that it is still about a barrier between people. Communities also tend to enforce a standard of behavior, and so can end up being coercive. (Here I think of struggle of fitting in no-doubt felt by Black or Gay Republicans.)
