How YouTube Changes the Way We Think

At last, a proper grown-up article on new media. By 'grown-up' I mean one that tries to wrestle with how new media are actually used and their actual use and abuse rather than recycling 'woe-fest' laments about how culture will go down the pan or a starry-eyed love-in telling us how we will be ushered into a new era of lusciousness. The final sentence of the article captures, for me, why it's worth looking at. Clive Thompson on How YouTube Changes the Way We Think: "We think of video as a way to communicate with others—but it's becoming a way to communicate with ourselves."