Chapter 1 - An Introduction
Chapter 1 - Introduction to the project As we were asked, by our Digital Literacies lecturer, to create a blog related to the mindful use and engaging in social media I wasn’t too excited. After all, there are nicer things to do than projects, especially when it’s finally turning into spring outside. I also didn’t really think that much about social media, besides the content to post on my own accounts and occasionally getting frustrated at anything remotely stupid I came across. Also to mention the 5-second-happiness created by all those cute puppy and kitten videos floating around on Facebook. Luckily, this same lecturer provided insight in many aspects of social media through his lectures, making it easier for me to pick a subject for my project. As there are many users of these media doing basically whatever they want, I decided to choose a group of users who I think are very fascinating, as they expose their lives quite a bit, with intent. Vloggers. They are fasc...