“technology to connect Christians for the purpose of encouraging and advancing the Gospel worldwide.”
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/05/well-now-we-have-godtube/
It is also attracting plenty of heathens, drawn by an unexpected phenomenon:
many Christians appear delighted that there is now a corner of the internet where they can go for entertainment without risk of encountering mayhem or vice.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article1626529.ece
'The New Face of Christianity'
Chris Wyatt, the CEO and co-founder of GodTube, told ABC News that "the Web site hasn't even launched" -- it's set to be born on May 1 -- "and we're already the number one Christian Web site in the world."
Wyatt, in his second semester at Dallas Theological Seminary and a former CBS News producer, said, "What you're looking at here is the new face of Christianity. Millions of Christians out there -- tens of millions of them that age anywhere from 20 to 40 -- that are out there already on the Internet, and GodTube really supplies a unique place where they can get together, where they can exchange ideas and spread the Gospel worldwide. And nothing like that exists right now."
The company censors contributions all the time, Wyatt said. "As you can imagine, we get a lot of people uploading objectionable material. We do have to sort through that, unlike a lot of the other video-sharing sites. Day by day, we have a bank of theologians, certainly, that's headed up by a doctor friend of mine who's a theologian himself, and we look at every clip."
"We didn't actually make the site for Christians," Wyatt said, but for nonbelievers, who he says he knows are watching. "We get e-mails every day. And that really is the whole point. It's to spread the gospel to those who have not heard it."
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=3023285&page=1
About 16,000 people are registered GodTube users, and the site garners video submissions in languages ranging from Japanese to Italian. Dr. Miller says that believers have criticized the site for promoting a place for Christians to huddle and ignore the world. “But the traffic is about 43 percent international,” Dr. Miller says, “and includes Christians and non-Christians alike.”
http://www.dts.edu/about/profiles/Chris_Wyatt/
“You know, [there are] 2.1 billion Christians out there in the world, but really we're talking not only [about] the Christians but also the 4 billion out there that are seeking faith," Wyatt told ABC’s Nightline last week.
"Now we're going to take on the world,” said Wyatt. “You know, all of a sudden it's GodTube
The multi-lingual feature of the site will be more than just a marketing strategy.
According to GodTube’s mission statement, the site exists to “connect Christians for the purpose of encouraging and advancing the Gospel worldwide.”
This is where I will be getting most of my information, although I will probably cite the LA Times and ABC News as they are most creditable. I have also been looking at opposing views of Godtube that may assist me in my discussion of negotiatio--providing another perspective on the site.
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dr. campbell made a passing comment in class about godtube, stating that they have a coterie of pastors and seminary students who filter its online content.
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