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New form of media publishing that is widely used is Vlog. Vlog simply stands for video blog. A Vlog consist of video streaming community where communities are able share videos with each other. An example of a successful Vblog would be YouTube. One of the many reasons why Youtube is gaining popularity is because it provide users with wide range of videos and easy browsing feature (Why YouTube Works, 2006). According to (Arrington, 2006), Youtube can upload the video pretty fast where there are as much as 65,000 videos being upload daily and 100 millions of videos being viewed every single day.
Other than that, YouTube serves a role in the political constitution where an election candidate in America publishes relevant videos of their political point of view to draw and to convince their potential voters (Jarvis 2007). Youtube provide an official channel especially for 2008 United States presidential election (O’hear 2007).
Example of President Obama Speaks to the Muslim World from Cairo, Egypt posting in Youtube
(source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BlqLwCKkeY)
Issue with Youtube
According to Jones (2007) assert that it is common to YouTube to experience copyright lawsuit and people tend to post videos without rights to do so. This is one issue that YouTube facing due to wide video contents. In fact, it is a copyright infringement for YouTube. According to O'Brien and Fitzgerald (2006), stated that it is neccesary to consider video sharing websites like YouTube can be held legally responsible for authorizing copyright through the content they provide.
Other New forms of Media Publishing
- Moblog: mobile blogging, e.g. Jerry Ong Community Blog
- Vlog: video blogging, e.g. Lonelygirl15
- Splog: spam blog, e.g. Casino Online
- Linklog: URLs (hyperlinks) blogging, e.g. Tony Finch’s Link Log
- Sketchlog : sketch blogging, e.g. Sketch blog of the day
- Tumblelog: e.g. Anarchaia
- Online newspaper: e.g. New Straits Times
- Online magazine: e.g. Time Magazine
References:
Jarvis, J 2007, Guardian Column: The YouTube Campaign, viewed 10 November 2009,
<http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/01/29/guardian-column-the-youtube-campaign/>
Jones, A 2007, YouTube's Legal Issues Grow, viewed 10 November 2009,
<http://econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=39887>
O'Brien, D, Fitzgerald, B 2006, 'Digital copyright law in a YouTube world', Internet Law Bulletin 9 (6&7), pp. 71-74, 10 November 2009,
<http://eprints.qut.edu.au/7505/1/7505.pdf>
O’hear, S 2007, Fox News on Second Life; YouTube Presidential Campaign; Explode Adds New Features; and More, viewed 10 November 2009,
<http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=105>
Why YouTube Works, 2006, online, viewed 10 November 2009,
<http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=105>
Why YouTube Works, 2006, online, viewed 10 November 2009,
M. Arrington 2006, Youtube’s Magic Number - $1.5 Billion viewed 10 November 2009, <http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/09/21/youtubes-magic-number-15-billion/>
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