Evolving Education: Can Video Essays Tell Us Something About Education?

Written By Lillian Craton

Jay Harris

Education has been evolving: From desks with paper and pens to our home sofas on the internet. This paper uses ideas about TV from Neil Postman’s book Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse In The Age Of Show Business to explore YouTube Video essays. Postman argues that TV teaches its watchers to find entertainment in its programming rather than ways to communicate or gain knowledge. This paper argues that with the rise of YouTube and content creators the video essays they create are more than entertainment. Specifically, this paper examines if YouTube Video Essays are not as harmful as the TV that Postman suggested.

  • Jay Harris graduated from Cane Bay High School in Summerville. They are currently a senior English and psychology double major. Their recent research has been focused on internet videos and the culture that surrounds them.

Lillian Craton
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