I’m pretty sure it goes without saying that such radical ideas would not be broadcasted on mainstream media networks like Fox News, and that brings me to another topic of my paper-the video blog. Like its brother the regular blog, video blogs, or vlogs, are almost a type of guerilla journalism. Although they do not require the same credentials as traditional video journalists, nor are they subject to the same consequences for slander, video bloggers can do some good by covering stories that major video journalists are not at liberty to cover, since unlike vloggers they are subject to companies who only have one thing in mind: profit. Like documentaries such as Zeitgeist, I consider vlogs to be associated with causes. Consider the effects websites like Rocketboom.com have on the psyche when they run stories on dirty drinking water in third world countries. It is hard to watch such images without wanting to do something to change the state of things, possibly by making donations to relief funds, and that is a prime example of how a cause in cyberspace film can affect the physical world.
Of Course, not every film in cyberspace promotes a cause. In all honesty, I’d estimate about ninety percent of it does not, and about half of that ninety percent, forty-five percent of the total, is complete garbage, but that’s no reason to be synical; the other forty-five percent of video content on the web is more than enough to make up for Miley Cyrus’s personal vlog uploads. Take the video bellow for example...
Monday, December 14, 2009
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