Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Vlogging and its affordances and disadvantages
Vlogging, short for "video blogging", is blogging through a video. A blog is any web page updated on a regular basis with discrete entries.For example Shaanxo is a vlogger who publishes videos of make up tutorials and hauls of her make up colection and favourite foundations for summer,winter and spring. So many people follow her vlogs that she has brought out xo beauty which is a collection of make up brushes, rings and false eyelashes, also lots more.She is now earning money through having popularity from her vlog. She also does vlogs with other vloggers such as Lauren Curtis and xLivLovesMakeup, who also vlog about make up. Shaanxo also does question and answer vloggs. Even though there are many affordances such as income there are also disadvantages such as many people cannot watch 20 minute videos as they may not have time, also for the vlogger it may be hard to keep constantly up to date and could potentially begin to take over your life.When Shaanxo Vloggs she is very general and talks in first person. She talks about her personal experiences and reccomendations also she talks about different styles of make up and colours they work well with. http://www.xobeautyshop.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/shaaanxo
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Good coverage of conventions. It would be useful to analyse the language in an example to see how a mass-appeal vlog tries to cater to a wide audience. What pragmatic understanding is required? What sociolect is utilised?
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