The text on assemblages provides a interesting lens towards dissecting the media that we frequently interact with.\u00a0 Using this lens forces us to pick apart the individual pieces that come together to make a large “assemblage” or platform such as YouTube. On the Youtube platform there are many what the text calls “arrangements of humans and nonhumans” all of these individuals pieces and their interactions with each other make the YouTube platform what it is. These individual pieces of the YouTube assemblage include the many humans who make YouTube content, the respective audiences of these creators, the comment section, devices to access the platform, internet access, letters, words and more. While dissecting these pieces is interesting the text also points out that “Assemblages are not static structures” and that “it is not enough to dissect or map an assemblage\u2019s elements. We must consider its capacities: what an assemblage can do”. One unique element of many social media platforms, Youtube included, is the capacity for interaction between the audience and the creators of media. In more traditional forms of media, such as television, this interaction did not exist in the same way as\u00a0 it can now. Previous forms of audience-media producer interaction was usually do as direct, immediate or easily accessible. With platforms like YouTube an individual audience member can directly communicate with a media creator such as through the comment section. This in turn can impact the work produced by the media creator thus creating a type of mutualistic relationship that would not be possible without all the individual pieces of the assemblage working together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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