Response to Video Vortex

In the article Video Vortex is separated into four different sections, each of which discusses the website YouTube. One article which is entitled "The Practice of Everyday Media Life," by Len Manovich talks about how YouTube is the perfect way to broadcast yourself to the world. She calls the way in which people do so, art, because people have their own ways of defining art and this is one of them. Another article in the series, entitled "Constructive Instability," by Thomas Elsaesser says the opposite of Manovich. He walks about how this sort of media is actually taking attention away from the whole art world, a place where media art is not included or taken seriously.
The two authors have differing views on if broadcasting yourself through YouTube would be considered art or not. Elsaesser does not think that YouTube can be considered actual art because it takes away from the true art form and what people consider avant-garde which he does not consider YouTube a part of at all. This is because he sees YouTube as a organism that has surpassed any sort of control and is considered unstoppable because of how easily anyone can post and view videos. Manovich see's Youtube as an opportunity to create ones own art form. She sees this site as a new way of mediating information through different people and creating a world where one can consider it art and bring their own meaning to it.