Youtube: New Age of Digital Media

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As I load this week’s college course assignments, I get my first look at the videos I must view. Once again, there is a YouTube video listed. Most individuals think of YouTube as a forum for viewing entertaining video snippets and having a laugh or an ‘ahh’ moment, but in today’s media engrossed world, YouTube has crept into every corner of society from sports to education. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how much is a video worth? Apparently a lot when it comes to using YouTube, which is accessible in 22 countries and in 24 different languages.

YouTube has become the place to post your opinions about almost any subject worldwide. Subjects can be posted online about world issues, such as global warming or the Gulf oil spill. The advantage of using a video for arguing a subject is that it is the next best thing to face-to-face. You can’t see your audience, but you can still use facial expressions, surrounding, and gestures in your persuasion. Can a complex argument be posted in such a small space as a YouTube video allows? Sure it can, if it has only one subject and uses brief to the point sentences. You have to be very specific to convince you audience to join you way of thinking.

Some of the YouTube videos encompass very controversial issues. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is a good example of a controversial subject debated on YouTube. An aide working for Senatorial candidate secretly taped the TSA guards who detained him at the airport and it was then posted on YouTube in three videos. Those videos were used to make a point about how overbearing employees of the TSA were becoming by using a logos fallacy called part for the whole. That political aide used his one altercation wi...

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In conclusion, it seems that YouTube has become a standard when it comes to argument in the new age of digital media. Not only can an individual post a video of any type of argument that is important to them and get the public’s feedback, but presidential candidates can debate the issues and let citizens voice their opinions. Plus college professors have access to sharing a wealth of lecture material from well-known speakers from the most prestigious colleges and businesses in the world with their students.

Works Cited

CNN Politics. The skinny on CNN, YouTube's presidential debates. 14 Jun 2007 Web.

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Ramage, John, John Bean, June Johnson. Writing Arguments, A Rhetoric With Readings.

United States: Pearson Education, Inc., 2010, Print.

YouTube. Google, Inc. 2011. Web. 7 May 2011.

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