Geet Lovink in the Art of Watching Databases, discusses that instead of consuming time watching TV or reading books we now click through useless videos on YouTube, which are essentially just mirrors of people, that really have no substancial meaning to us.
Lev Manovich in the Practices of Everyday Life discusses a “Web 2.0” and how our culture has progressed from a media culture to a social culture, which is currently run by Myspace, Facebook, YouTube, etc.
These two authors agree on the fact that our culture is now consumed with social networking sites, and spend countless hours clicking through web pages. Although I felt as if Lovink discusses Youtube and other sites as if they can articulate what its users would find interesting based of what they are viewing more than Manovich finds possible. Also Manovich went into much more detail, for example about music, comments left by users, and art.
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