The Impact of Viewer Content
Posted on December 7, 2006
Filed Under Channels and Content, What's New |
To my knowledge the video movie made by a student in the UCLA library has not yet been shown on networked television. It shows another student being zapped by police officers for failing to show his library ID, and zapped repeatedly. He appears to be in acute pain. I found it nauseating and that’s simply because of the sound of the man crying out and of the incessant orders to “stand up.”
The website momentshowing.net is running to video and a few others that illustrate the coming power of video blogging. Coming at the same time as the news from Reuters, Yahoo and the BBC that they will alll be running user generated video content channels next year (C-Span is to do the same for sports) it promises an interesting point of potential conflict while we see what material the broadcasters use, and how, and what ends up on sites like momentshowing.
I can imagine the BBC, Yahoo, Reuters and the networks using a video like this - it’s dramatic stuff, after all. But it’s the sheer weight of time, cries, shouts, and human distress that really takes over when you watch every second of it. I wonder if the networks/broadcasters will give it that kind of time?
Irrespective of that momentshowing also have a few posts on the use of videoblogs by people like German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the ability of videoblogs to bridge nations around the world - particularly bridge underdeveloped areas with our modern consciences over here!
These are exciting times and they’re bound to have a moral impact. Not a moment too soon.
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