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I first learned about the Remix Artist Pogo earlier this year in Michael Wesch’s Digital Ethnography course. Here is Pogo”s latest video: Toyz Noize

I also personally experienced a bit of the remix culture. Contrajoe is a remix artist who took an interest in my videos while I was working on my Digital Ethnography project YouTube in Classrooms. He included me in a bizarre form of remix known as a “YouTube poop”.

Earlier this year, I had a chance to briefly visit with Jeffrey Young, a Chronicle of Higher Education writer who was working on an article about professors posting lecture videos online. He mentioned a concern that professors have with online video- some professors are

afraid people are going to grab some little clip and make fun of you.

But Young also rightly notes that

Because so many students carry cellphone cameras that can shoot video, though, any professor could already become a laughing stock on YouTube.

I guess my position is to try to not have such a large ego that it bothers me. If in the process of participating in online culture I am teased from time to time, so what? If I do something really stupid, maybe I deserved to be ridiculed. If I’m being made fun of for being who I am, well there’s not much that can be done about that, except not to participate. But for me, the price of non-participation is just too high.