For this blog, I watched a few clips from WipeOut on Hulu and the Diet Coke + Mentos and Coke & Mentos Gone Wrong clips on You Tube.
In viewing these two sites, I believe that while they offer much the same service - watching video over the Internet - one would go to these sites for vastly different reasons.
In the case of Hulu, this is a site that someone would go to to watch a very specific video, such as an episode of a favorite show that they missed. It is not really a site that is easy to navigate if you don't know what you're looking for or aren't looking for anything specific.
YouTube, on the other hand, makes it more than easy enough to find things that you weren't looking for in the first place. With the large number of related videos or response videos, you can easily watch five or six videos when you only intended to watch one.
I see YouTube as more of a web structure than Hulu in that many of the videos are interconnected with many other videos. Hulu has more of a linear structure in that one video follows another in a set pattern within a show. These linear patterns do not interact between shows or genres.
I believe that YouTube is much more of a participatory culture than Hulu even if you aren't making vidoes. Yes, it is an obvious factor that YouTube is more participatory because you can upload videos whereas you can't on Hulu. However, YouTube is also more participatory in viewing because you have more interaction between viewer and videos with selection.
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