Rise of the mobile video blog

Video blogging on mobile started since intergrated between webcams and broadband. The first internet celebrities has created. The 'Lonelygirl15' has became popular and supporting by online video watcher.Eventhough this girl was start as a teenager's video blogger and only discovered real identidy as actress.

Source: Youtube, 2006

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Recently, the latest model of mobile phone created a new trend. By using mobile phone to do the shooting,editing the video in easier way. Afterwards, it also able to post online immediately. It is also need to thanks for the faster mobile connection and also all-inclusive package. These convenience help the trend activity able to growth in short time.

Theory of readings

According Wash (2006), a image is more than thousands words. It means that people can easy understand what is going on by a image. It does not need too much explaination but people can easy understand it. Here, the video helps to record as videoblog. It following by the technology which is getting advance. KvL(2001) opined to challeng the notions between the traditional literacy's emphasis on print in the light of the growing dominace of multimodal texts and digital technology. However,the more exciting things is the developing habit in moblogging or photo intergration where the technology of mobile phone is getting advanced.

My Opinion

In my opinion, although people are given by the freedom of posting their videoblogging. But, there are some limitation for the video blogging is the mobile operator want to earn more money so they intergrate with website. It end up the ethical issues, such as people simply post up their video. The inappropriate video might affect or pollute the young onling video watcher.

Reference List

1. Bbc.co.uk, 2008,'Rise of the mobile video blog',last viewed June 10, 2009 <http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/programmes/click_online/7392594.stm>
2. Kress, G & van Leeuwen, T. (2001), "Multimodal Discourse. London : Arnold."
3. Kress, G. & van L, T2006. Reading images. Chapter 6: The meaning of composition.
4. Youtube, Lonelygirl15, 2006, 'first blog/Dorkiness Prevails',last viewed June 9,2009 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-goXKtd6cPo>