video vortex

Geert Lovnik takes the stance that youtube and such things have forced viewers to be constantly stimulated and to be entertained. Lev Manovich on the other hand says that youtube has allowed for amateurs to do something professional. I can tell that Lovnik is taking the assumed, stereotypical, approach to addressing new media. He says it is ruining our minds and making us all forced to rely and more and more stimulation to be entertained. He seems be saying the same, negative, thing that alot of media critiques have said, with no resolution. Manovich instead argues that there can be positive outcomes of youtube. He approaches this new media as a positive, as a opportunity for people, instead of a negative. He argues that we can expand ourselves and our consciousness with youtube and with the internet and its ability to help us communicate.