Vloggers and Vlogging


Book Description

The digital age has brought with it new and exciting ways to communicate with others. Vlogs—that is, video blogs—educate, entertain, and persuade viewers the world over. This title teaches readers how established vloggers work their magic. Readers are encouraged to brainstorm ideas for their own vlogs and get steps for writing, filming, editing, and marketing their content. Tips for more professional scripts, lighting, sound, and editing are also covered. Readers will also learn about what methods to take to gain followers and media attention, and become an informed vlogger.




The Vloggers Yearbook


Book Description

Packed with all your favorite YouTube stars, this amazing book is a must-have for all aspiring vloggers! This amazing book is a must-have for all aspiring vloggers! It’s packed with everything you fans need know about what their favorite vloggers do and how they can do it themselves, including: jargon, A-Z tips and facts on vlogging, personality and vlogging quizzes, and YouTube statistics. It is a veritable guide to the best bloggers and gamers on the Internet, featuring both US and European vlogging sensations. Features information on popular YouTube stars, including these US and Canadian based sensations (as well as popular European stars Zoe Sugg, Alfie Deyes and PewDiePie): Nigahiga (Ryan Higa) (14 million subscribers) SMOSH – Anthony Padilla & Ian Andrew Hecox (20 million subscribers) Bethany Mota (8 million subscribers) Michelle Phan (7 million subscribers) Shane Dawson (6 million subscribers) Jenna Marbles (14 million subscribers) Captain Sparklez – Jordan Maron (3 million subscribers) Tyler Oakley (7 million subscribers) Superwoman – Lilly Singh (5.5 million subscribers) Joey Graceffa (4.1 million subscribers) Miranda Sings – Colleen Ballinger (4 million subscribers) Connor Franta (4.4 million subscribers) The Fine Bros – Benny Fine and Rafi Fine (3 million subscribers) Rhett & Link (Good Mythical Morning) (3.3 million subscribers) Grace Helbig (2 million subscribers) V-sauce – Michael Stevens (combined channel subscribers 14 million)




The Vlogger's Handbook


Book Description

This fun, comprehensive guide to vlogging delivers the skills and tips you need to get started, produce a professional look, develop your skill level, and cultivate your creativity. With a fresh, stylish design and bite-sized text and project prompts, this is a no-nonsense approach to learning about: Setting up and uploading a vlog Inspiration for what to vlog about How to storyboard a vlog Lighting and props Advanced video skills Editing your vlog Adding sounds and effects Building an audience Making your vlog pay Internet and social media safety guidance Throughout the book, Q&A panels feature successful young vloggers who give their own personal tips and stories about how they got started. Your own vlogging success comes next!




Youth Mediations and Affective Relations


Book Description

Youth Mediations and Affective Relations explores dynamic and expansive possibilities of young people’s affective lives as they engage with diverse social media in prolific and specific ways. It addresses the situated embodied and emotional experiences of young people as they actively use media in order to forge communities, play imaginatively, protest injustice, experiment with their identities, make media or explore friendships. Furthermore, it explores the relational and contextual dimensions of their everyday interactions. Against static knowledge and moral panics that abstract youth from the complex and changing worlds in which they grapple with digital media, this book hones in on the layered textures of youth experiences to consider how today’s youth think and feel in subtle and unexpected ways.




Performing Atheist Selves in Digital Publics


Book Description

This book considers how the non-religious self is performed publicly online, and how digital culture and technology shapes this process. Building on a YouTube case study with women vloggers, it presents unique empirical data on non-organized atheism in the United States. Lundmark suggests that the atheist self as performed online exists in tension between a perception of atheism as sinful and amoral in relation to hegemonical Christianity in the U.S., and the hyperrational, male-centered discourse that has characterized the atheist movement. She argues that women atheist vloggers co-effect third spaces of emotive resonance that enable a precarious counterpublicness of performing atheist visibility. The volume offers a valuable contribution to the discussion of how the public, the private, and areas in-between are understood within digital religion, and opens up new space for engaging with the increased visibility of atheist identity in a mediatized society.







Social Computing and Social Media: Design, User Experience and Impact


Book Description

This two-volume set LNCS 13315 and 13316 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media, SCSM 2022, held as part of the 24rd International Conference, HCI International 2022, which took place in June-July 2022. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The total of 1276 papers and 275 posters included in the 40 HCII 2022 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 5583 submissions. The papers of SCSM 2022, Part I, are organized in topical sections named: design and user experience in social media and social live streaming; text analysis and AI in social media; social media impact on society and business.




Autoethnography in the 21st Century, Volume II


Book Description

Autoethnography in the 21st Century offers interpretive, analytic, interactive, performative, experiential, and embodied forms of autoethnography from around the globe. Volume II, Genealogy, Memory, Media, Witness examines hybrid ethnographic life-writing genres, including genealogical memoir, cultural autotheory, and family narrative. Contributors actively blur the distinction between emic and etic classifications of ethnographic experience to position themselves as both the active bearers of and critical witnesses of culture to produce and analyze expressive rather than data-driven depictions of selfhood and culture that emerge in the spaces between traditionally self-effacing scientific methods and literary narrative. It features autobiographical and anthropological poetics, autotheory, and fieldwork grounded in Trinidad, Jordan, Mexico, Italy, Australia, Canada, Scotland, Egypt, Turkey, and the United States. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of critical autoethnography, communication, cultural and gender studies, and other related disciplines. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.




Out Online: Trans Self-Representation and Community Building on YouTube


Book Description

Trans people are increasingly stepping out of the shadow of pathologization and secretiveness to tell their life stories, share information and to connect with like-minded others, using YouTube as a platform. Out Online: Trans Self-Representation and Community Building on YouTube explores the digital revolution of trans video blogging, addressing ’trans’ in its many meanings and configurations to examine the different ways in which the body in transformation and the vlog as a medium intersect. Drawing on rich, virtual ethnographic studies of trans video blogging, the author sheds light on the ways in which the video blog (or ’vlog’) as a multimodal medium enables trans people to tell their stories with the use of sound, text, music, and pictures - thus offering new ways to construct and archive bodily changes, and to revise the story endlessly. A groundbreaking study of the intersection between trans identity and technology, Out Online explores the transformative and therapeutic potential of the video blog as a means by which trans vloggers can emerge and develop online, using the vlog as a site for creation, intervention, community building and resistance. As such, it will appeal to social scientists and scholars of cultural and media studies with interests in gender, sexuality and embodiment.