User:Laura Macchini/thesisOutline

Thesis Outline

description of my graduation project

My graduation project revolves around confessional youtube videos. A video is projected in a room, a collage/mashup of videos directly streaming from YouTube. In the first hypothesis of scenario: while there is no one watching, the video shows an idle scene, pieces of video in which a person stares at the camera, waiting for an audience; as soon as people appear in front of the installation, the video gradually changes into scenes in which the vlogger is revealing more and more intimate details about their life; the level of intimacy and the content of the confessions/revelations is related to factors like the number of people present and the distance between the spectator/s and the projection.

Abstract

Confessional Culture and confessional videoblogging is the central focus of my graduation project. The focus of my/this thesis will be to shed some light on why confessional videoblogging exists in the first place, identify and explain some of the reasons why people would decide to talk publicly about their private life, and in conclusion the mutual interests that the public and the market society has for user-generated content to be constantly produced and updated (better phrasing?). I plan

fil rouge : index

1. history of the concept of celebrity through TV, Realtity TV and Web 2.0
   1. appearing on TV means becoming a celebrity
   2. TV Culture in Italy: Videocracy (maybe)
   3. participation in Talk Shows and Reality TV Series
   4. Judge Jury and So
2. Post Reality TV: Imitating the professional entertainment Industry
   1. (Difference between being on tv and having videos online)
3. Why Confessional Youtube Videos
   1. Popularity & Attention Seeking
   2. Performing for an Audience
   3. Reaching out: a new concept of Community
4. Production and Consumption of Entertainment
5. the Eternal Praising of User Generated Content
   1. In the interests of Companies that produce Electronics (Cameras, Videocameras, Camcorders-Webcams)
   2. In the interests of SocialNetworks that host the content (Flickr,Youtube,Vimeo,Facebook..)
   3. other?

bibliography

• Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin - Listening Post
• Geert Mul - Match of the Day
• Lernert & Sander - I Love Alaska
• Ondi Timoner - We Live in Public
• Laurie Ouellette & James Hay - Better Living through Reality TV
• David Shields - Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
• Jon McKenzie - Perform or Else
• Olivia Rochette & Gerard-Jan Claes - Because We Are Visual
• Erving Goffman - The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
• Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis - Open 19: Beyond Privacy: New Perspectives on the Public and Private Domains
• Geert Lovink, Rachel Somers Miles - Video Vortex Reader II
• Geert Lovink, Sabine Niederer - Video Vortex Reader I
• Andrew Keen, The Cult of the Amateur