Wednesday, April 11, 2007

GP essay

YouTube have no ethnics, it is created for the sole purpose of money and entertainment.

YouTube is a international video-sharing website and over millions of viewers flood the website everyday. However, in such a website, it probably may not have any ethnics and its main interest is only making money and providing the viewers with visual entertainment.

Politically, YouTube may not have ethnics and sufficent respect for the leaders of several countries. In other words, they provide entertainment to the viewers at the expense of making fun of political figures of the country. In recent example, the YouTube has a video that lasted forty-four seconds that depicts a feet being placed over the Thailand's king face. I agree that this will incoporate some forms of humour within the video but this will raise the tension level between the diplomatic relation between the United states and Thailand.

In terms of the media industry, YouTube has created a certain level of reputation for itself. This will result in many large coporations pumping huge sums of money into YouTube to advertise for them. For example, ten percent of the 54billion spent on television is being channelled to video-sharing websites like YouTube. This will probably turn it into a business organisation where it provide entertainment to the viewews and earn huge amount of profits by advertising for huge coporations over its website.In other words, it is created for the sole purpose of making money and providing entertainment.

Socially, the youtube had some forms of ethnics embedded in its videos. In other words, some of its videos are educational and informative.For example, the videos posted on youttube teaches people how to conduct self -check on cancer that can be detected early like breast cancer where the video teaches people the correct method to feel the tumour. However, this video falls under the cancer association and it has to pay the youtube a certain sum of money for advertising for them. Therefore this still falls under the category where youtube creation is mainly focused on providing entertainment for the public while at the same time making profits from the relevant huge organisations.

In conclusion, Youtube creation is to provide entertainment. However some of the huge organisations saw this great chance of putting up their advertisements of the YouTube and decided to pump in huge amount of money to advertise on this videosharing website. Therefore, over time, YouTube become based more on making profits or money for themselves instead of purely for entertainment.

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