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Citizentube: Watching video change our world
June 16, 2009
As you might have noticed, there's a lot of fascinating stuff that happens on YouTube every day. For example, did you know that a nine-year-old recently used YouTube to successfully
campaign
to save his local kickball lot? Have you seen the video of a Guatemalan lawyer who predicted his own
assassination
on YouTube moments before it happened? Or did you know that YouTube and Google have launched a
new technology platform
for political debates, which allows you to submit and vote on the most important issues you want to discuss with political candidates?
These are the sorts of things you can stay on top of with
Citizentube
, a special YouTube blog devoted to chronicling the way that people are using video to change the world. If you've followed news and politics on YouTube, you might have
noticed
that we started Citizentube as a
video channel
on the site a few years back, but we soon realized that keeping track of all the phenomenal uses of YouTube by posting our own videos just wasn't fast enough — so now we're blogging, too. We generally focus on two types of posts: the compelling political and social uses of YouTube that we see the community bubble up every day, and our own programming initiatives and partnerships in the political, news, and nonprofit arenas.
Our team creates opportunities for you to engage with content that goes beyond the humorous or even the educational — content that changes the way you interact with your communities, institutions, and leaders. The first initiative we launched in this space was the You Choose '08 platform and the
CNN/YouTube Debates
in 2007. Since then we've expanded our programming to the fields of
government
,
activism
, and
news & information
. On the blog, we'll post an occasional series that gives a bigger picture perspective of what's happening in the worlds of news reporting, government, and social change on YouTube.
So be sure to check out www.citizentube.com and subscribe to our
RSS feed
(we're on Twitter, too: @citizentube). With more than 20 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, our blog helps provide you with a filter that you can use to see the way that video is changing our world.
Posted by Steve Grove, YouTube News and Politics
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