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My paper is going to discuss vlogging (video blogging) on YouTube and how it relates to our current culture. There are several aspects of vlogging I’m going to discuss throughout my paper.

First, I will define vlogging and discuss the history of YouTube. I will discuss YouTube’s importance in our current culture, using a few of the books I am using (YouTube and The YouTube Reader). I will discuss how YouTube has changed popular culture and created its own community. Next, I will discuss vlogging more specifically, using academic texts, online articles, and personal experience as a viewer. I will talk about what it is with more detail, how it has changed YouTube, and the potential gains from it. I will discuss the gains from viewers as well as the gains from the creators, some of which include fame, money, and community. I will also discuss the user/creator relationship and how that has evolved over the years.

Then, I plan to talk about reality TV and compare it to vlogs. I will talk about how they are different, similar, and discuss potential reasons as to why people prefer one to the other. I will also discuss documentaries here, and why people consider documentaries “boring,” yet vlogging is so popular. I will also talk about visibility. There has been such a shift in our culture where people need to put their lives online. People value how others see their lives displayed on social networks and YouTube is no exception. Vlogs are a part of this overarching theme of visibility encompassing our current online culture, and I hope to discuss how visibility contributes the vlogs’ appeal and popularity.

With my paper, I hope to explore how vlogging has changed our culture, affected the people who watch and create it it, and its immense success over so many other similar mediums.

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