For the past six weeks I’ve been trying to look more closely at vlogging (video web logging) on YouTube – a project for my qualitative methods class. I’ve been watching a lot of vlogs and then starting conversations with some of the people that create them. Some of the folks I contacted didn’t respond, but a good amount of people did. And while some responses were short, sort of courteous replies, others turned into extended correspondence. It’s been great to do this.
The paper is meant to be an ethnography, broadly defined as an interpretative study of a group of people, social practices, and their context. Its due in 10 days and its now clear that it will not read like a traditional ethnographic work, but this project has given me an introduction to a different sort of lens for looking at media. I will post some bits of it, which always works out better when it is written… more about this later.
This is a link to the channel for my YouTube accoun. What’s more exciting than vlogs about vlogs?
