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The Vulnerable Video Blogger: Promoting Social Change through Intimacy
http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/blogs/lange_01.htm
Many people cannot understand why it would be important or
interesting to watch intimate, spontaneous events in the lives of
bloggers. People who are unfamiliar with the diary form of video
blogging are often critical of this genre, seeing it as self-centered
and obsessed with filming micro-events with no particular point or
relevance beyond the videomaker's own life. Yet, many video bloggers
argue that it is precisely by putting these intimate moments on the
Internet for all to see that a space is created to expose and discuss
difficult issues and thereby achieve greater understanding of oneself
and others. Public access to intimate moments and the discourse
surrounding the video artifacts on the Web allow social boundaries and
pre-existing assumptions to be questioned and refashioned. In this paper
I explore some of the themes that women have raised on video blogging
sites by exploring their intimate moments. In particular, I wish to
discuss videos made by women video bloggers who explore ideas about
self-image, diversity, and helping Internet strangers.
Video blogging is an umbrella term that covers a wide number of
genres, including everything from short video footage of spontaneous,
real-life, personal moments, to scripted and preplanned "shows" with
characters, narratives, and professional acting. A blog is a Web journal
with entries that may include text comments or other media (such as
photographs). The entries are placed in reverse chronological order so
that the site's visitors encounter the most up-to-date entry first.[1]
A video blog or "vlog" usually contains text and often photographs, but
it also features video as a central mode of communication. Many video
blogs are for the general public, although some are restricted to a
small circle of friends. Video blogs may be diary-based, artistic,
journalistic, entertainment-based, or they may take any number of other
forms. What unites members of the video blogging community is a
commitment to video as a crucial means of expressing and understanding
issues that the video blogger wishes to share.
on The Scholar and Feminist Online
Published by The Barnard Center for Research on Women
www.barnard.edu/sfonline
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