Vlogged

As I mentioned previously, I watch vlogs myself. These vlogs are of Dutch vloggers, as I am more attracted to those than to English-speaking vloggers (and I need to have a limit of how many creators to follow if I want to do something useful with my days). Vlogging is a trend at the moment, and lots of (young) people spend large amounts of time on YouTube watching these vlogs. If you have no idea what a vlog is, here is an explanation.   The definition of vlog is video blog, video log or video diary. It developed from the written blogs, which were then created using video as a medium. Around 2005 vlogging started to grow in popularity, right in time for the launch of platform YouTube. In short, what vloggers do is film themselves dynamically (in selfie mode) talking into the camera-lens addressing their audience. They show exciting events or activities they’d be doing in a specific moment or just talk to the camera. There is no specific age for vlogging, some of the...

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...