Monday, 3 March 2014

The Audience as Creator's and Collaborator's


Zoella:

Beauty/fashion vlogger who has over 4 million subscribers on YouTube. She now advertises brands and has been featured in BooHoo and on TV presenting. 

Her videos are viral and she includes the audience by answering their questions and asking them to post pictures in response to her videos. 

Supports Wesch's theory of the most popular age bracket (18-24) Zoe is 23. 

Her videos are most commonly filmed in her bedroom, which supports Wesch's theory that most videos on YouTube are home videos. 

User generated content

She talks about real-life things that would be relevant to everyday people. 

However, she has gone from using her own webcam in her bedroom to using a high tech camera-filmed by someone else. 

Has 141 uploads so far

Sugg created her blog Zoella in February 2009. 

 She has a main channel called Zoella, which is mostly where she does beauty tutorials and shows her favorite products, and a second channel called More Zoella, where she mostly does vlogs

It has created a new community - including the vloggers coming together and filming vlogs with other popular vloggers and including the audience 

Mediating human relationships


This video had:






Her first video:



Wesbite: 


More Zoella:

She films vlogs herself ...mostly of her life and her house etc.



Over 1 million subscribers


Miranda Sings:

Miranda Sings is an Internet character created in 2008 by American comedian, actress and singer Colleen Ballinger

Has a fake identity 

Her topics don't relate to real life as she makes a spoof out of everything. 

Funny, just used for entertainment not to have a relevant point in the world. 

It is original content 

Has over 800 000 subscribers

Authenticity in crisis

People living constantly against the law as she sings artist's songs: such as: Starships by Nicki Minaj



                                      

Has her own website





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