<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Lost in cyber-flaming hell</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><A href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/lost-in-cyberflaming-hell/2007/07/20/1184560036272.html">http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/lost-in-cyberflaming-hell/2007/07/20/1184560036272.html</A><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This article holds a mixed perspective in terms of negative attitudes towards activism but does provide an insight into the gap between political campaign use of YouTube by governments in contrast with the way the site is engaged with by users. These differing worlds still seem a long way apart. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"YouTube may look like a video-sharing site. And it is. But it's also much more than that, with viewers invited to become instant critics by posting comments and engaging with other people watching the same video." </DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; ">>></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; ">seth.keen@rmit.edu.au</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002FE0"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 47, 224); "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 47, 224); "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;; color: rgb(0, 47, 224); font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 47, 224); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 47, 224); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; ">http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; ">http://www.networkcultures.org/videovortex/</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV></SPAN><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>