Video Upload Research Articles

Performing Musicalization Of Poetry And Uploading The Video On Youtube For Poetry Class Project

Musicalization of poetry is an intriguing class project for English Literature students. It enables them to dig into their creativity and talent in writing and performing poetry and at the same time speeding up their comprehension of English poetry, particularly from the aspect of musical device of a poem. Though not treated as the main activity of the course, such task is valuable, acommodating those interested more in producing literary work than merely criticizing it. Also, to make this project more fun, the students can be challenged to videotape their performance and share it on YouTube. The students are thus encouraged to pack it in a good video presentation because their videos, once uploaded and set public, become available for any viewers. This project may work best if assigned for a group work because the students could delegate jobs such as who is to write and recite the poem, to design the concept of their musicalization of poetry, to tape and edit the video, and finally to upload the video on YouTube and promote it on social media like Facebook and Twitter. Indeed, musicalization of poetry project could be taken as an extra assignment in poetry class by which the students practice employing the poetic devices at first hand. This paper will explain the why, what and how this class project should be conducted. Key words: musicalization of poetry, YouTube video upload, poetry class project

Driver sleepiness on YouTube: A content analysis

Driver sleepiness is a major contributor to severe crashes and fatalities on our roads. Many people continue to drive despite being aware of feeling tired. Prevention relies heavily on education campaigns as it is difficult to police driver sleepiness. The video sharing social media site YouTube is extremely popular, particularly with at risk driver demographics. Content and popularity of uploaded videos can provide insight into the quality of publicly accessible driver sleepiness information. The purpose of this research was to answer two questions; firstly, how prevalent are driver sleepiness videos on YouTube? And secondly, what are the general characteristics of driver sleepiness videos in terms of (a) outlook on driver sleepiness, (b) tone, (c) countermeasures to driver sleepiness, and, (d) driver demographics.Using a keywords search, 442 relevant videos were found from a five year period (2nd December 2009–2nd December 2014). Tone, outlook, and countermeasure use were thematically coded. Driver demographic and video popularity data also were recorded. The majority of videos portrayed driver sleepiness as dangerous. However, videos that had an outlook towards driver sleepiness being amusing were viewed more often and had more mean per video comments and likes. Humorous videos regardless of outlook, were most popular. Most information regarding countermeasures to deal with driver sleepiness was accurate. Worryingly, 39.8% of videos with countermeasure information contained some kind of ineffective countermeasure. The use of humour to convey messages about the dangers of driver sleepiness may be a useful approach in educational interventions.

The secret sauce for organizational success: Managing and producing star performers

Elon Musk, chief executive officer (CEO) and chief technology officer (CTO) of SpaceX and CEO of Tesla Motors, has produced monumental achievements. Starting with the creation of the online purchasing service PayPal, he has been driven to create companies and products with an immense and worldwide impact. Driven by his desire to protect the earth and provide a sustainable future for humankind, Musk has been at the forefront of several industries, ranging from electric cars produced by Tesla to privatized space exploration with SpaceX. While Musk has proven to be a very successful leader and entrepreneur, he does not stand alone as an example of star performance. Indeed, looking across industries, we find numerous people who have produced outstanding results. For example, Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks, helped his company grow tremendously despite the struggling U.S. economy. Starbucks now stands as the largest coffeehouse company in the entire world. On the popular internet video site YouTube, there are numerous examples of individuals becoming millionaires due to the high volume of Internet traffic they bring in to their channels. They have been able to separate themselves from other video uploaders and accumulate a significant amount of personal wealth. How about sports? Quarterback Peyton Manning stands as a visible example of the influence that stars can have on an organization. In the 2013 National Football League season, Manning led an explosive offense to the Super Bowl and set numerous individual records along the way, including most passing touchdowns in a season, most passing yards in a season, and most games in a season with at least four touchdown passes. Manning’s influence on American football is so great that he has been voted the league’s most valuable player a record-setting five times.

Moving towards Cloud Security

Cloud computing hosts and delivers many different services via Internet. There are a lot of reasons why people opt for using cloud resources. Cloud development is increasing fast while a lot of related services drop behind, for example the mass awareness of cloud security. However the new generation upload videos and pictures without reason to a cloud storage, but only few know about data privacy, data management and the proprietary of stored data in the cloud. In an enterprise environment the users have to know the rule of cloud usage, however they have little knowledge about traditional IT security. It is important to measure the level of their knowledge, and evolve the training system to develop the security awareness. The article proves the importance of suggesting new metrics and algorithms for measuring security awareness of corporate users and employees to include the requirements of emerging cloud security.

Naturally occurring peer support through social media: the experiences of individuals with severe mental illness using YouTube.

Increasingly, people with diverse health conditions turn to social media to share their illness experiences or seek advice from others with similar health concerns. This unstructured medium may represent a platform on which individuals with severe mental illness naturally provide and receive peer support. Peer support includes a system of mutual giving and receiving where individuals with severe mental illness can offer hope, companionship, and encouragement to others facing similar challenges. In this study we explore the phenomenon of individuals with severe mental illness uploading videos to YouTube, and posting and responding to comments as a form of naturally occurring peer support. We also consider the potential risks and benefits of self-disclosure and interacting with others on YouTube. To address these questions, we used qualitative inquiry informed by emerging techniques in online ethnography. We analyzed n = 3,044 comments posted to 19 videos uploaded by individuals who self-identified as having schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or bipolar disorder. We found peer support across four themes: minimizing a sense of isolation and providing hope; finding support through peer exchange and reciprocity; sharing strategies for coping with day-to-day challenges of severe mental illness; and learning from shared experiences of medication use and seeking mental health care. These broad themes are consistent with accepted notions of peer support in severe mental illness as a voluntary process aimed at inclusion and mutual advancement through shared experience and developing a sense of community. Our data suggest that the lack of anonymity and associated risks of being identified as an individual with severe mental illness on YouTube seem to be overlooked by those who posted comments or uploaded videos. Whether or not this platform can provide benefits for a wider community of individuals with severe mental illness remains uncertain.

Hadoop Applications in Video Monitoring

With the development of the society, traditional video monitoring could not meet the users’ demand of video surveillance. Setting up a video monitoring system on the cloud platform is necessary. Video monitoring system can meet the users’ demand of search video, upload video, video storage, video transcoding and download video.

Cumbia!: Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre Héctor D.Fernández L'Hoeste and PabloVila, Editors. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013.

Cumbia!: Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre Hector D. Fernandez L'Hoeste and Pablo Vila, Editors. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013.Cumbia is presented simultaneously as a source of social identity construction and a detailed look at the music form itself, including how both have transformed through a journey of transnational adaptation. The essays explore a variety of topics, from instrumentation and rhythmic patterns to gender and identity projects, using multiple approaches by a highly qualified list of authors. Three themes, each of which threads its way through many of the essays, position this book as an important contribution to scholarly understanding of music culture; they are social identity, perceptions of and the relationship between music and the music industry.Cumbia as a root for social identity construction and perception is effective because, although it was born in Colombia, it has developed in different manners throughout several nations. From a social identity perspective, cumbia's adaptation is often accompanied by a similar theme: music of the marginalized and exploited. In many of its adaptations, the genre takes two paths, at least partial acceptance by some members of the higher class and a vehicle for members of the marginalized class living away from home to connect with loved ones. This second point is exemplified in the book when describing a baile, a form of dance that originated in Mexico City using cumbia music: the baile progresses, the sonidero's (deejay) most important and clearly more taxing job is to read into the microphone the personal dedications and salutations that members of the audience and dancers are now giving to him (129); these are later heard on purchased CDs or uploaded videos by the intended recipients of the messages. As a vehicle for social identity, the importance of cumbia becomes one of great depth, as is addressed by the editors who propose the term to articulate rather than to reflect or to construct because it encompasses both possibilities at once (13).The transnational nature of cumbia's progression and adaptation leads to questions of authenticity, a term often written with quotation marks acknowledging by at least some of the authors its subjective nature. The concept of authenticity is one which has received great attention in scholarly circles, and the reader is given opportunity to recognize and problematize its conceptual vagueness. For example, the decision to include a spoken voice segment by genre elder Nicolas Herna'ndez by musician Martin Vejarano is presented with the description (a)s a modern musician, he is interested in maintaining direct links with practitioners of traditional Colombian music and the places from which they derive (53). …

Using Blackboard in Online Learning at Saudi Universities : Faculty Member's Perceptions and Existing Obstacles

As online learning environment is growing among universities worldwide including developing countries, still, there are some difficulties that might interrupt the implementation of this environment; such as : Technological difficulties and/or Skills lacking. The aim of this research was to identify the obstacles are facing these faculty member in using Blackboard as a blended learning system. And recognized the perceptions of faculty members who involved in e-learning programs and trained to use the blackboard in Education. The sample surveyed in this study was 360 faculty member and instructors at King Saud University (Riyadh), King Khaled University (Abha) and Taif UniversityCollege of Education. Descriptive methodology has involved analysis of the implemented online system at these universities and how faculty member are interacting with that. The main obstacles found in the study were: Lack of needed training and experience in using ICT (Information & Communication Technology) – lack of internet signal that interrupts continuous connection and smooth communication and lack of encouragement and restricted rules that oblige faculty member to develop their technological skills, the experience in using ICT especially in producing electronic materials such as: recording lectures via Echo application, upload videos on YouTube channel, slide share, flicer..etc.

Capturing personality from Facebook photos and photo-related activities: How much exposure do you need?

Photo-related activities are noticeably prevalent among social media users. On Facebook, users predominantly communicate visually and manage their self-presentation. Such online behaviours tend to mimic what would be expected of individuals’ offline personalities. This study sought to address the link between Facebook users’ photo-related activities and the Big Five personality traits by encoding basic Facebook visual features. Content analysis on the actual profiles (n=115) and multiple regression analyses revealed many associations as a manifestation of users’ characteristics. For instance, Neuroticism and Extraversion predicted more photo uploads. Conscientiousness was predictive of more self-generated albums and video uploads and Agreeableness predicted the average number of received ‘likes’ and ‘comments’ on profile pictures. Additionally, the Facebook experience in interaction with the personality factors was found to be influential on the type of photo-related activity and the level of photo participation of users. The findings provide evidence that Facebook users with various personality traits set up albums and upload photos differently. Given the uses and gratification model, users adapt the construction of their profiles and manage their interactions to gratify their psychological needs on Facebook.

A Study on Social Network Sites among the Teaching Communities at Paavai College of Engineering in Namakkal Distcit, Tamil Nadu

Information communication technology is a various set of scientific implements and it is used to create, communicate, distribute, store and manage data. A computer network consists a set of communication channels interconnecting, a set of computing devices or nodes that can communicate with respectively other users. The development and popularity of social network sites have been created by internet user’s community. Presently more than a billion of users in social network sites together to create, collaborate, contribute their knowledge and wisdom. The present study shows that the social network sites are an essential part of ICT era. Analysis of data collected from a sample of 147 faculty at Paavai College of Engineering in Namakkal by administering a questionnaire method reveals that 64.60% of the faculty aware about the social network sites through friends, (56.50%) of the engineering faculty are using SNS always by video uploads and viewing, which is followed by (51.70%) interactions with engineering professionals then academic related usage (43.50%) are the SNS which are comes under seen by very often.

Cyber-Campaigning in Denmark: Application and Effects of Candidate Campaigning

ABSTRACTWe set out to analyze the application and effect of cyber-campaigning among candidates at the 2011 Danish general election campaign in order to provide hard evidence on whether new technologies are electorally decisive, or whether traditional offline campaigning still makes sense. First, both Web sites and Facebook sites are popular among candidates, but other features such as blogs, feeds, newsletters, video uploads, SMS, and Twitter are used by less than half the candidates. Second, only age and possibly education seem to matter when explaining the uptake of cyber-campaigning. The prominent candidates are not significantly more likely to use cyber-campaigning tools and activities. Third, the analysis of the effect of cyber-campaigning shows that the online score has an effect on the interparty competition for personal votes, but it does not have a significant effect when controlling for other relevant variables. The online rank of candidates within party and constituency is more important for intraparty competition; in fact, it has a significant effect: it matters to be more online than fellow candidates. In sum, the effect of cyber-campaigning is limited, but it matters more to the contest among same-party candidates than among parties in an open list, multimember constituency electoral system like the Danish have.

Using objective ground-truth labels created by multiple annotators for improved video classification: A comparative study

We address the problem of predicting category labels for unlabeled videos in a large video dataset by using a ground-truth set of objectively labeled videos that we have created. Large video databases like YouTube require that a user uploading a new video assign to it a category label from a prescribed set of labels. Such category labeling is likely to be corrupted by the subjective biases of the uploader. Despite their noisy nature, these subjective labels are frequently used as gold standard in algorithms for multimedia classification and retrieval. Our goal in this paper is NOT to propose yet another algorithm that predicts labels for unseen videos based on the subjective ground-truth. On the other hand, our goal is to demonstrate that the video classification performance can be improved if instead of using subjective labels, we first create an objectively labeled ground-truth set of videos and then train a classifier based on such a ground-truth so as to predict objective labels for the set of unlabeled videos.With regard to how we generate the objectively-labeled ground-truth dataset, we base it on the notion that when a video is labeled by a panel of diverse individuals, the majority opinion rendered by the panel may be taken to be the objective opinion. In this manner, using judgments provided by multiple human annotators, we have collected objective labels for a ground-truth dataset consisting of randomly-selected 1000 videos from the TinyVideos database that contains roughly 52,000 videos from YouTube (courtesy of Karpenko and Aarabi [1]).Through a fourfold cross-validation experiment on the ground-truth set, we demonstrate that the objective labels have a superior consistency compared to the subjective labels when used for video classification. We show that this claim is valid for several different kinds of feature sets that one can use to compare videos and with two different types of classifiers that one can use for label prediction.Subsequently, we use the ground-truth dataset of 1000 videos to predict the objective category labels of the remaining 51,000 videos. We compare the objective labels thus determined with the subjective labels provided by the video uploaders and qualitatively argue for the more informative nature of the objective labels.

Hybrid fluid modeling approach for performance analysis of P2P live video streaming systems

In this paper a hybrid modeling approach with different modeling formalisms and solution methods is employed in order to analyze the performance of peer to peer live video streaming systems. We conjointly use queuing networks and Fluid Stochastic Petri Nets, developing several performance models to analyze the behavior of rather complex systems. The models account for: network topology, peer churn, scalability, peer average group size, peer upload bandwidth heterogeneity and video buffering, while introducing several features unconsidered in previous performance models, such as: admission control for lower contributing peers, control traffic overhead and internet traffic packet loss. Our analytical and simulation results disclose the optimum number of peers in a neighborhood, the minimum required server upload bandwidth, the optimal buffer size and the influence of control traffic overhead. The analysis reveals the existence of a performance switch-point (i.e. threshold) up to which system scaling is beneficial, whereas performance steeply decreases thereafter. Several degrees of degraded service are introduced to explore performance with arbitrary percentage of lost video frames and provide support for protocols that use scalable video coding techniques. We also find that implementation of admission control does not improve performance and may discourage new peers if waiting times for joining the system increase.

An SSD-Based Storage System for an Interactive Media Server Using Video Frame Grouping

For real-time interactive multimedia operations, such as video uploading, video play, fast-forward, and fast-rewind, solid state disk (SSD)-based storage systems for video streaming servers are becoming more important. Random access rates in storage systems increase significantly with the number of users; it is thus difficult to simultaneously serve many users with HDD-based storage systems, which have low random access performance. Because there is no mechanical operation in NAND flash-based SSDs, they outperform HDDs in terms of flexible random access operation. In addition, due to the multichannel architecture of SSDs, they perform similarly to HDDs in terms of sequential access. In this paper, we propose a new SSD-based storage system for interactive media servers. Based on the proposed method, it is possible to maximize the channel utilization of the SSD's multichannel architecture. Accordingly, we can improve the performance of SSD-based storage systems for interactive media operations.

An SSD-Based Storage System for an Interactive Media Server Using Video Frame Grouping

For real-time interactive multimedia operations, such as video uploading, video play, fast-forward, and fast-rewind, solid state disk (SSD)-based storage systems for video streaming servers are becoming more important. Random access rates in storage systems increase significantly with the number of users; it is thus difficult to simultaneously serve many users with HDD-based storage systems, which have low random access performance. Because there is no mechanical operation in NAND flash-based SSDs, they outperform HDDs in terms of flexible random access operation. In addition, due to the multichannel architecture of SSDs, they perform similarly to HDDs in terms of sequential access. In this paper, we propose a new SSD-based storage system for interactive media servers. Based on the proposed method, it is possible to maximize the channel utilization of the SSD’s multichannel architecture. Accordingly, we can improve the performance of SSD-based storage systems for interactive media operations.

The Design of a NPVR System for an IPTV Platform

IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) is one of the main Internet applications developed in recent years. It provides an unprecedented variety of multimedia services in the form of streaming media, delivers real time contents to users directly, and supports new services such as user interactive TV programs. In this paper, we design and implement a cross-platform web IPTV systems based on the functional definitions of the OIPF (Open IPTV Forum) standard. We implement a few multimedia streaming functions, including video upload, NPVR (Network Personal Video Recorder), VoD (Video on Demand) and live video services. 

Video spam and public opinion in current Middle Eastern conflicts

Social networks studies aim to discover the public opinions related to products, news, issues, etc. However, the level of trust or credibility of such public opinion evaluations may have the risk of being influenced artificially by opposite groups. Such deception can be easier to accomplish through the web in comparison with real life where face to face verification may challenge such deception methods. In this paper, we evaluated credibility in social networks. YouTube is used as a case study and we studied spamming techniques (e.g., keyword stuffing) that are widely used in this video streaming in order to improve visibility and bring public attention to the subject videos. Results and evaluation showed that currently such streaming applications do not impose any structural techniques on the kind of tagging or keywords that are included in the uploaded videos to ensure that such tags or keywords are relevant to the video content.

Performing Musicalization Of Poetry And Uploading The Video On Youtube For Poetry Class Project

Musicalization of poetry is an intriguing class project for English Literature students. It enables them to dig into their creativity and talent in writing and performing poetry and at the same time speeding up their comprehension of English poetry, particularly from the aspect of musical device of a poem. Though not treated as the main activity of the course, such task is valuable, acommodating those interested more in producing literary work than merely criticizing it. Also, to make this project more fun, the students can be challenged to videotape their performance and share it on YouTube. The students are thus encouraged to pack it in a good video presentation because their videos, once uploaded and set public, become available for any viewers. This project may work best if assigned for a group work because the students could delegate jobs such as who is to write and recite the poem, to design the concept of their musicalization of poetry, to tape and edit the video, and finally to upload the video on YouTube and promote it on social media like Facebook and Twitter. Indeed, musicalization of poetry project could be taken as an extra assignment in poetry class by which the students practice employing the poetic devices at first hand. This paper will explain the why, what and how this class project should be conducted.Key words: musicalization of poetry, YouTube video upload, poetry class project

Metawritings: toward a theory of nonfiction

Metawriting the writing about writing or writing that calls attention to itself as writing has been around since Don Quixote and Tristram Shandy, but Jill Talbot makes that case that now more than ever the act of metawriting is performed on a daily basis by anyone with a Facebook profile, a Twitter account, or a webpage. Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction is the first collection to combine metawriting in both fiction and nonfiction.In this daring volume, metawriting refers to writing about writing, veracity in writing, the I of writing and, ultimately, the construction of writing. With a prologue by Pam Houston, the anthology of personal essays, short stories, and one film script excerpt also includes illuminating and engaging interviews with each contributor. Showcasing how writers perform a meta-awareness of self via the art of the story, the craft of the essay, the writings and interviews in this collection serve to create an engaging, provocative discussion of the fiction-versus-nonfiction debate, truth in writing, and how metawriting works (and when it doesn t).Metawritings provides a context for the presence of metawriting in contemporary literature within the framework of the digital age s obsessively self-conscious modes of communication: status updates, Tweets, YouTube clips, and blogs (whose anonymity creates opportunities for outright deception) capture our meta-lives in 140 characters and video uploads, while we watch self-referential, self-conscious television (The Simpsons, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Office). Speaking to the moment and to the writing that is capturing it, Talbot addresses a significant and current conversation in contemporary writing and literature, the teaching of writing, and the craft of writing. It is a sharp, entertaining collection of two genres, enhanced by a conversation about how we write and how we live in and through our writing.ContributorsSarah BlackmanBernard CooperCathy DayLena DunhamRobin HemleyPam HoustonKristen IversenDavid LazarE. J. LevyBrenda MillerAnder MonsonBrian OliuJill TalbotRyan Van Meter

THE DESIGN OF AN INTERACTIVE E-LEARNING PLATFORM FOR SURVEYING EXERCISE

Abstract. Surveying exercise is a fundamental course for Civil Engineering students. This course is featured with field operation. This study explores the design of an e-learning platform for the surveying exercise course. The issues on organizing digital contents such as recorded video of the standard instrument operation, editing learning materials, and constructing the portfolio for the learning process, as well as generating learning motivation, are discussed. Noting the uploaded videos, publishing articles and commentaries, interactive examination sessions, assessing for each other, and mobile device accessing, are found to be useful elements for this platform.