d/Discussion

I visited the London Knowledge Lab in june. That was exiting. One of the project presented to our group had some interesting findnings about the use of youtube. After going through a large amount of profiles, they found that 0.17% of these users had actually uploaded anything! This means that for everyone contributing, there are at 600 only watching (of course there are possibilities of people having more than one profile and of one profile being run by more than one person). And many contributions, as we all know, are not the result of any creative work, but of riping.

The discussion I’m talking about should circle around how we depict young people on the net. Considering that we use these assumptions when thinking about education, it is important not to base them on obscure examples. Our schools are mainly for the 600 people watching. The relevance of marginal online youth culture must be questioned. We cannot believe that everything we see is an instance of ”early adoption.”