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MIND BOGGLING! THAT’s how I would describe the You Tube statistics I stumbled upon recently.
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Below is an excerpt of that statistics which was culled by Digital Ethnography.*† But while these numbers indeed boggle the mind as they are, do take note that these are as of March 17, 2008 and are, therefore, already obsolete!
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- Total videos uploaded:† 78.3 million
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- Videos uploaded per day: over 150,000
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- Top-3 Countries in terms of highest percentage of uploads:
- USA: 34.5%
- United Kingdom: 6.9%
- Philippines: 3.9%
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- Language of Choice:
- English: 48.1%
- Spanish: 13.6%
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- Categories of uploaded videos:
- Music: 19.8%
- Entertainment: 19%
- People and Blogs: 14.2%
- Comedy: 13.4%
- Sports: 6.9%
- Education: 6.0%
- Automobiles: 5.2%
- Film: 4.7%
- How To: 2.6%
- News: 2.6%
- Pets: 2.2%
- Science: 2.2%
- Travel: 1.3%†
* Digital Ethnography is a working group of Kansas State University students and faculty dedicated to exploring and extending the possibilities of digital ethnography.
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I looked up “ethnography” on the Web and here are the top ten definitions I got:
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That aspect of cultural anthropology concerned with the descriptive documentation of living cultures.
www.china.org.cn/english/features/Archaeology/98851.htm
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A form of anthropology where a variety of anthropological practices and field research techniques are used to study people in their daily lives …
www.intel.com/products/glossary/body.htm
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The scientific description and classification of the various cultural and racial groups of humankind
www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~aged885/Glossary/GLOSSARY.htm
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The study and recording of human cultures.
www.dia.wa.gov.au/Heritage–Culture/Sites–Surveys/Aboriginal-Heritage-Procedure-Manual/11-Glossary/
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Documentation made for or by anthropologists and others involved in the systematic recording of human cultures.
www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/techdocs/genre.html
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Description of a culture, usually based on the method of participant observation.
www.oregonstate.edu/instruct/anth370/gloss.html
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A study of culture and cultural processes that uses multiple ways to research, observe, and document people, events, or artifacts. See fieldwork.
www.louisianavoices.org/edu_glossary.html
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A method of studying and learning about a person or group of people. Typically, ethnography involves the study of a small group of people in their own environment. …
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/browse/glossary.html
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A branch of anthropology that studies and describes modern human cultures (rather than human behavior or physical attributes). Archaeologists sometimes work with ethnographers in an effort to correlate behavior with material remains.
www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php
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An in-depth, descriptive study of a culture; part of the subfield of socio-cultural anthropology.
www.darkwing.uoregon.edu/~mmoss/GLOSSARY.HTM
