Cultural Production and Innis
Given today's discussion concerning high and low culture, and our attempts to channel Innis to see what he would make of the internet we touched upon the issue of cultural production. Just in case anyone is interested in the Top Five Videos of All Time for YouTube- here they are:
Number Five, with 17, 328, 599 views is "guitar" (Well at least it is Pachelbel's Cannon)
Number Four, with 18,275, 607 Views is My Chemical Romance "Famous Last Words"
Number Three, with 18, 955, 780 views is a SNL Digital Short (UNCENSORED) "A Special Christmas Box"
Number Two with 21, 674, 208 Views is the "Pokemon Theme Music Video"
and Number one with over 45 Million Views, 26, 374 comments and "favorited" 169, 673 times: "Evolution of Dance"
Considering the number of times the video was viewed is 45,104,925 and the entire length of the video is six minutes long, that equals roughly 513 YEARS of time spent watching the content if everyone watched the full length of the video.
I can now fully understand why Harold Innis was a cultural elitist and made frequent references to the destruction and fall of socities and his preoccupation with atom bombs....