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The rise of the new genre, video blog and vlogs on mobile phone have gained massive acceptance as well as suggesting various issues at the same time. Is it a threat or a treat, both if you ask me.
Since the marriage of webcams and broadband, and the birth of newly advanced mobile phones, video blog has become a familiar sight. In fact, it has made recognizable contribution in discovering young talents and internet celebrities.
(Zee Avi's Bitterheart video on YouTube)
Zee Avi, a jazz soul from Sarawak did not set out to become an internet sensation, let alone land a record deal, when she first signed up for a YouTube account in 2007. She then became a hit with online video watchers where thousands of YouTube users subscribed to her channel and seen the grainy, black-and-white webcam videos of her performing original songs. And later landed a record deal with White Stripes manager Ian Monotoneand who brought her to Brushfire Records. That is the treat.
On the flip side, video blogging is also infamous with its controversial and explicit content including politician error, celebrities exposed and home made sex video using webcam and mobile phone which have offended many public and spreaded all over the internet. Now when everybody tries to be a celebrity, that is the threat.
With the increasing subscribers of mobile phones and that to emerging nations are at the forefront with the number of users, citizen journalism is getting popular where normal people can cover a story and post it on the net.
As stated by Bowman and Willis (2003), we are at the beginning of a Golden Age of journalism but it is not journalism as we have known it, if we carry on like this, by 2021 citizens will have contributed 50 per cent of the news peer-to-peer.
Hence, while vlogs and mobisodes continue to explode in the contemporary media, issues concerning ethics and journalism would surface along the way.
References
Since the marriage of webcams and broadband, and the birth of newly advanced mobile phones, video blog has become a familiar sight. In fact, it has made recognizable contribution in discovering young talents and internet celebrities.
(Zee Avi's Bitterheart video on YouTube)On the flip side, video blogging is also infamous with its controversial and explicit content including politician error, celebrities exposed and home made sex video using webcam and mobile phone which have offended many public and spreaded all over the internet. Now when everybody tries to be a celebrity, that is the threat.
With the increasing subscribers of mobile phones and that to emerging nations are at the forefront with the number of users, citizen journalism is getting popular where normal people can cover a story and post it on the net.
As stated by Bowman and Willis (2003), we are at the beginning of a Golden Age of journalism but it is not journalism as we have known it, if we carry on like this, by 2021 citizens will have contributed 50 per cent of the news peer-to-peer.
Hence, while vlogs and mobisodes continue to explode in the contemporary media, issues concerning ethics and journalism would surface along the way.
References
- Zee Avi biography, viewed on 19 November 2009, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zee_Avi
- Bowman, S & Willis, C 2003, 'We media: how audiences are shaping the future of news and information’, The Media Center at The American Press Institute, viewed on 19 November 2009, http://www.hypergene.net/wemedia/weblog.php
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