Technology
-What is it? A Vlog
-What is it replacing? Diaries, films, home videos
-Technologies involved: broadband internet + cheap cameras, editing programmes and simple software
-What is it? A Vlog
-What is it replacing? Diaries, films, home videos
-Technologies involved: broadband internet + cheap cameras, editing programmes and simple software
Audiences
-Which social groups are relevant and why? All social groups are relevant as anyone can post a vlog and it appeals to a vast range of people. However those that have access to the internet doesn’t often include pensioners or young children.
-What are they doing with it? They are using vlogs to publish their thoughts, record good times, create mini-films and videos, and show off their personal talents, i.e. singing, dancing, beat-boxing,
-Which social groups are relevant and why? All social groups are relevant as anyone can post a vlog and it appeals to a vast range of people. However those that have access to the internet doesn’t often include pensioners or young children.
-What are they doing with it? They are using vlogs to publish their thoughts, record good times, create mini-films and videos, and show off their personal talents, i.e. singing, dancing, beat-boxing,
-most vlogs fall into two categories: either vlogs of the post-reality television world, that consist of people documenting their lives, or grass roots journalism of events or issues not broadcast by traditional media.
-How are they using it to consume the media? Mainly vlogging is about consumers publishing videos that they have created for the global internet community, but by watching a blog you can consume a huge variety of home-made media, that is noticeable alone for its proliferation
-What are they doing differently? They are creating media, as well as consuming it
-What does it offer? The chance for everyone to get in on the act of video-making, without the need of expensive equipment or fame
Institutions
-Who is involved? YouTube
-How are they using the technology?
-YouTube acts an archive and search engine for most vlogs and independent videos.
-Users can upload, view and share clips
-The site is praised as one of the most user friendly sites on the internet. Unregistered users can watch most videos on the site while registered users have the ability to upload an unlimited number of videos. Related videos, determined by the title and tags, appear to the right of the video. In the second year, the site gave users the ability the post responses and subscribe to any registered user
-However with the democratisation of vlogs YouTube is quite slack at controlling media output and isn’t keeping up with the proliferation of vlogs that are inappropriate or infringe copyrighted content
-What benefits has it brought them?
-Currently staffed by 67 employees YouTube was started by just 3 ex-collegues, the company was named TIME magazine's "Invention of the Year" for 2006.
In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the company for US$1.65 billion in Google's stock. The deal closed on 13 November 2006
Media
websites: www.YouTube.com
bands: Mia Rose
singles: Still the One
TV programme: LonelyGirl
music videos: Justin Timberlake: “What goes around”
Key Concepts
Regulation: With such a proliferation of new media on the internet it is becoming increasingly hard to censure the media that becomes available to public consumption
Interaction: Vlogs enable consumers to interact with eachother through comments and even video replies
Reach: The online community is global, completely massive, and growing every day, meaning that vlogs have the opportunity of being exhibited to an unimaginably wide audience
Democratisation: Anybody is able to post a vlog, meaning that they are being sed to start many careers, and have also been exploited to create fake characters and situations
Proliferation: Democratisation has lead to prolific amounts of vlogs being produced and exhibited on the internet through sites such as YouTube
-How are they using it to consume the media? Mainly vlogging is about consumers publishing videos that they have created for the global internet community, but by watching a blog you can consume a huge variety of home-made media, that is noticeable alone for its proliferation
-What are they doing differently? They are creating media, as well as consuming it
-What does it offer? The chance for everyone to get in on the act of video-making, without the need of expensive equipment or fame
Institutions
-Who is involved? YouTube
-How are they using the technology?
-YouTube acts an archive and search engine for most vlogs and independent videos.
-Users can upload, view and share clips
-The site is praised as one of the most user friendly sites on the internet. Unregistered users can watch most videos on the site while registered users have the ability to upload an unlimited number of videos. Related videos, determined by the title and tags, appear to the right of the video. In the second year, the site gave users the ability the post responses and subscribe to any registered user
-However with the democratisation of vlogs YouTube is quite slack at controlling media output and isn’t keeping up with the proliferation of vlogs that are inappropriate or infringe copyrighted content
-What benefits has it brought them?
-Currently staffed by 67 employees YouTube was started by just 3 ex-collegues, the company was named TIME magazine's "Invention of the Year" for 2006.
In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the company for US$1.65 billion in Google's stock. The deal closed on 13 November 2006
Media
websites: www.YouTube.com
bands: Mia Rose
singles: Still the One
TV programme: LonelyGirl
music videos: Justin Timberlake: “What goes around”
Key Concepts
Regulation: With such a proliferation of new media on the internet it is becoming increasingly hard to censure the media that becomes available to public consumption
Interaction: Vlogs enable consumers to interact with eachother through comments and even video replies
Reach: The online community is global, completely massive, and growing every day, meaning that vlogs have the opportunity of being exhibited to an unimaginably wide audience
Democratisation: Anybody is able to post a vlog, meaning that they are being sed to start many careers, and have also been exploited to create fake characters and situations
Proliferation: Democratisation has lead to prolific amounts of vlogs being produced and exhibited on the internet through sites such as YouTube
Convenience/ Flexibility: users can subscribe to a vlog's RSS feed so that it will automatically check for new content at regular intervals and show information about content when it becomes available, such as the title and a short summary
THE RISE AND RISE OF MIA ROSE...
1 comment:
hard at work eh beats?
i saw that mia rose when i was looking at vlogs on youtube! was gonna do it but i'm undecided.
hope you're having fuuuuun
paul x
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