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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 to start with an explanation of how confessional culture came to be so popular in the contemporary society.

Over the past two decades, reality TV has become an increasingly dominant component of contemporary television and established itself as a guilty pleasure many of us cannot help but indulge in to satisfy our voyeurism and vicarious living needs. Reality TV has given rise to a novel fascination with the lives and narratives of ordinary people and redefined the traditional definition of the celebrity. In addition, reality television has acted as a precursor for confessional tendencies in internet usage in the era of Web 2.0

fil rouge : index

1. Introduction: Why Confessional Youtube Videos (graduation project,word count = 300)
2. history of the concept of celebrity through TV, Realtity TV and Web 2.0 (Henderson, Amy. "Media and the Rise of Celebrity Culture.",word count = 300)
   1. appearing on TV means becoming a celebrity (videocracy,word count = 400)
   2. participation in Talk Shows and Reality TV Series (Reality Tv the work of being watched,word count = 300)
   3. Judge Judy and So (Better Living through reality tv,word count = 200)
3. Post Reality TV: Imitating the professional entertainment Industry ("The Relationship between Traditional Mass Media and "Social Media": Reality Television as a Model for Social Network Site Behavior.",word count = 400)
   1. (Difference between being on tv and having videos online,?count = 200)
   2. Popularity & Attention Seeking(Grown Up Digital,word count = 200)
   3. Performing for an Audience(Perform or Else,word count = 400)
   4. Reaching out: a new concept of Community(Beyond Privacy,word count = 300)
4. Production and Consumption of Entertainment(Video Vortex Reader II - Lev Manovich,word count = 200)
5. the Eternal Praising of User Generated Content(The Cult of the Amateur,word count = 400)
   1. In the interests of Companies that produce Electronics (Cameras, Videocameras, Camcorders-Webcams)(Lev Manovich,word count = 200)
   2. In the interests of SocialNetworks that host the content (Flickr,Youtube,Vimeo,Facebook..)(Lev Manovich,word count = 200)
6. Why is it so important for the market that user keep generating content? (?,word count = 400)

bibliography

Annotated 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
• Don Trapscott, Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation Is Changing Your World

Thesis Plan (and Timetable)

• selecting and examining the sources of each item of my index
• writing a brief synopsis for each item
• expanding on the synopsis of the items
• ?