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For my project, I want to compose a book about the ways people express joys online, I want to call it “LOL: The Youtube Laughing Track”. I am going to collect Youtube comments about laughters and the way people describe their moments of laughter. Selectively, I will also include people’s replies to these comments, because I think it will reflect | For my project, I want to compose a book about the ways people express joys online, I want to call it “LOL: The Youtube Laughing Track”. I am going to collect Youtube comments about laughters and the way people describe their moments of laughter. Selectively, I will also include people’s replies to these comments, because I think it will reflect | ||
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I would go to different channels on Youtube, from gaming, to celebrity news, to education, and so on, try my best to make the comments I collected to reflect a larger demographics. | I would go to different channels on Youtube, from gaming, to celebrity news, to education, and so on, try my best to make the comments I collected to reflect a larger demographics. | ||
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People are associated by the similar contents, the immediacy of Youtube and | People are associated by the similar contents, the immediacy of Youtube and | ||
This idea is inspired by “The YouTube Reader” by Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau, in which the authors discussed YouTube’s various functions to create “affiliation” for its users, which is defined as “feelings of connections between people,” from there I noticed that the emotion of joy plays a significant role in engaging people in the comment sections. Comment sections are where people post their most direct response to the contents they’ve seen, and they always find expressive ways to deliver their emotions, sometimes I found comment sections more hilarious than the context itself. The act of turning the comment section into a book is could also be read as a postdigital performance because while it does not provide any contents about the videos themselves, or means to reply. | This idea is inspired by “The YouTube Reader” by Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau, in which the authors discussed YouTube’s various functions to create “affiliation” for its users, which is defined as “feelings of connections between people,” from there I noticed that the emotion of joy plays a significant role in engaging people in the comment sections. Comment sections are where people post their most direct response to the contents they’ve seen, and they always find expressive ways to deliver their emotions, sometimes I found comment sections more hilarious than the context itself. The act of turning the comment section into a book is could also be read as a postdigital performance because while it does not provide any contents about the videos themselves, or means to reply. | ||
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Latest revision as of 20:45, 29 November 2017
Form
For my project, I want to compose a book about the ways people express joys online, I want to call it “LOL: The Youtube Laughing Track”. I am going to collect Youtube comments about laughters and the way people describe their moments of laughter. Selectively, I will also include people’s replies to these comments, because I think it will reflect
Materials
I would go to different channels on Youtube, from gaming, to celebrity news, to education, and so on, try my best to make the comments I collected to reflect a larger demographics.
Relation to the Course
People are associated by the similar contents, the immediacy of Youtube and This idea is inspired by “The YouTube Reader” by Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau, in which the authors discussed YouTube’s various functions to create “affiliation” for its users, which is defined as “feelings of connections between people,” from there I noticed that the emotion of joy plays a significant role in engaging people in the comment sections. Comment sections are where people post their most direct response to the contents they’ve seen, and they always find expressive ways to deliver their emotions, sometimes I found comment sections more hilarious than the context itself. The act of turning the comment section into a book is could also be read as a postdigital performance because while it does not provide any contents about the videos themselves, or means to reply.
