The combination of webcams and broadband has lead to the construction of video blogging, which is known as mobile video blog or vlogs (BBC News 2008).
BBC News (2008) stated that mobile video blog allows people to insert text, voice track and photos to share with others. People can send their final accomplishment of video directly to websites such as YouTube after they done with the editing of the video by using mobile phone.
BBC Interactivity assistant editor, Matthew Eltringham, declared that mobile video blogging is now growing rapidly. Two years ago, there was only 10 or 12 video clips uploaded to the websites, but since last year, over 240 video clips are subscribed to the websites just within a week (BBC News 2008). This shows that audiences are giving positive feedback for vblog.
Vlogs has formed a new genre structure according to format, narration and style. Pierre Rouarch (2009) stated that there are various genres of vblog such as personal, news, collaborative, political, and magazine type or lifestyles. Each genre of vblog has its own narration and style, which means the way of structuring meanings of video in the form of story as suggested by Schriato, T & Yell, S (1996).
Besides fun making video, there is also large numbers of videos shot on news stories sent to websites using mobile phone (BBC News 2008). Basically, the video on news stories are submitted by citizen journalism.
Acccording to Glaser, M (2006), citizen journalism (citizen-j) refers to people without professional journalism training subscribes news to internet using modern technology tools. For instance, one might snap a video of newsworthy events using mobile phone and post it online.
The action of citizen journalism has raised the issues of ethical publishing, as many professional journalists think that only trained journalists can comprehend the consistency and ethics involved in reporting of news (Glaser, M 2006).
References:
1. BBC News 2008, Rise of the mobile video blog, viewed 12 June 2009, http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/programmes/click_online/7392594.stm
2. Glaser, M 2006, Your Guide to Citizen Journalism, viewed 12 June 2009, http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2006/09/your-guide-to-citizen-journalism270.html
3. Pierre Rouarch 2009, What is a vlog?, viewed 12 June 2009, http://www.01vlog.com/whatisavlog.php
4. Schriato, T & Yell, S 1996, Framing Context, Allen & Unwin, St.Leonards, N.S.W.
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