Out With the Old and in With the New
The traditional way of covering the influential world of online video just won’t cut it anymore. So we’re doing something new.
Ever repeatedly slammed your head against a wall?
That’s what it feels like to be a digital culture journalist in the year 2019.
Big things are happening, and massive changes are afoot. We see platforms like YouTube, Twitch and TikTok in the headlines on a near-weekly basis, but dig beyond the headlines of most coverage and… well, you won’t find much.
I focus predominately on YouTube, and have made a significant chunk of a living trying to explain how this platform with two billion monthly active users has an outsized impact on the world — and how we’re sleepwalking into it taking over our lives without thinking critically about it.
But the reality is that the stories published by the number of excellent publications I work for are just the tip of the iceberg of what I pitch to editors.
It’s part of the reason why I ended up writing a book about YouTube: to better educate people about this massive platform that has an enormous impact on our lives, but we haven’t really considered in any depth. And judging by the reactions to its publication (Jamie…
