No, that’s not the actual YouTube video of Perry Noble getting pwned, it’s just a funny screen capture of a little joke that LifeChurch.tv decided to play on him.
Good times, good times.
LifeChurch, with a few *bleeps* and *fuzzy areas*, made it look like Perry was crazy-ranting-bad-mouth-cussing-middle-finger-raising hippie preacher.
But, as you can see by the text on the right side of the video page in the info portion, there is an explicit reference that this is, indeed, a joke.
And, those LifeChurch guys are smart too (we all knew that already though) as they purposely disabled embedding capabilities of the video.
Smart. Very smart. In fact, that’s digital CYA at it’s finest.
Because if someone completely random were to take this video, embed it on a blog, without the added commentary and explicit reference to it being an obvious prank and “joke,” losing it’s context, then it could easily pass as being “real” and very offensive.
You see, this is a perfect example of the potential hazard and danger of de-contextualizing media. Guess what? It happens all the time. We take bits and pieces of information we find on the web and then tweet it out to thousands upon thousands of people, instantly losing any connection with the original source perhaps.
It’s like the digital version of that childhood game “Telephone,” remember? Where you stand in a line with a bunch of other people and one person says something at one end and you see if it comes out the same on the other end?
Yeah. Happens really fast. What are your thoughts?
Daniel_Berman says
I wonder about the flip side of the equation. You graphically illustrated the dangers of decontextualization, but what are churches doing to help people take these bits and pieces and "re-contextualize" them into a coherent picture of how God is moving within there families, jobs, and communities – right now?
We can get all nuttified over we all just need more of God in our lives, and we just need revival, or we need to get back to the basics of Bible reading and prayer. That's definitely true, but its an "out there." One of the realities of 21st century living is that we deal with more information in daily life, than people in any other previous century.
Authority structures are blurred and being reorganized even as we speak. We can lament the changes, or we can engage and push to forefront of helping people pick up the information chunks of their lives and appreciate the hidden artwork that God is weaving in their lives. With that in hand, hitting all those basics previously mentioned becomes a whole lot easier.
human3rror says
that's a good point as well. I'm highlighting the dangers, but there are possible uses that are also beneficial as well, certainly.
great reminder.
Joanna says
Disabling embedding only goes so far. It is very easy to download a video off youtube and then re-upload it elsewhere that will allow embedding.
human3rror says
That's very true, but “most” people don't know how to do that.
😉
stephenbateman says
In telephone it took 3,4 or 7 people to screw it up. Online it takes 1.
I guess that's the point of the post though.
human3rror says
😉 yup.
Aaron says
Exactly.
That's why most of my videos can't be embedded, ranked, commented on, etc. I have several Google Alerts setup for certain keywords to monitor the web for anything relating to me. Discovering my YouTube videos were being embedded on websites that aggregate random videos wasn't alarming until they were sharing the same page with links to porn, etc.
human3rror says
yes. porn. ugh.
Lauren says
Wow. Now I know why it's so important to stay updated on google alerts for uses of my name and my organization. Thanks Aaron.