Vi kan bli lurade - men det gör inget?
Ni har säkert hört talas om Lonelygirl15, en poppisanvändare på YouTube som visade sig vara fejk. Att det var fejk och vi blev lurade kanske inte gör något - om det är en god berättelse som berättas?
“The case of lonelygirl15 tells us a few things.
Chiefly, people hunger for stories. Unlike Emmalina, a summer YouTube phenom who had tons of fans but no point, Bree’s vlogs have a story. What will happen to Bree? Will she get to the party?
Also, the power to create popular content is shifting from the entertainment industry to anybody with a digital camera, high-speed Internet and a story idea. The tools have been around for years, but the establishment still held the hole card: distribution, in the form of movie theaters, television networks and Wal-Marts.
In theory, the Internet should have bypassed traditional distribution, enabling content creators to get their product directly to viewers. But it didn’t. Instead, the Web created a massive, churning ocean of content with no easy way to find things you’d like to see.
Sites such as YouTube provide what was missing: a menu and an infrastructure where users can vote the best content to the top.
Finally, the Bree vlogs powerfully illustrate the Internet’s infuriating, entrancing ability to warp reality. And to question whether we even care, as long as it puts on a good show.”
Tycker det är ett intressant resonemang. Läs mer om detta här:
WP: The Lessons of Lonelygirl: We Can Be Fooled, And We Probably Don’t Care
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