Our words are the bullets, and bilibili is our gun! In this episode of Media Nouveau, we introduce a unique video-sharing website called “bilibili” that features a special “bullet comment system” — comments appearing or moving as a stream of bullets on the video playback screen. Peculiar at the first glance, the rise of bilibili invoked a revolution in the Chinese media public sphere. Why is the website revolutionary? And what is its implication of our contemporary new media environment? Find the answers in our podcast!
I have a message for you
Klara Prowisor, now 92 and living in Tel Aviv, escaped the gas chamber at Auschwitz by leaving her sick father behind as she jumped from a train in Belgium. Two decades later, she received a message from him. This 13-minute story is haunting and incredi ...
Vlogger Casey Neistat
In our podcast we explore the new media phenomenon that has quickly become a legitimate industry. This is Vlogging. We look at vlogger Casey Neistat who has amassed such a following since his beginning his daily vlog series and what makes him so popular and unique. We also look at some barriers to entry in the current vlogging industry and how Casey specifically has been able to overcome these new obstacles. Lastly, we establish the history behind daily vlogs and how our obsession with other people’s lives paved the way for vloggers today. The New Media concepts that are specifically highlighted are these barriers to entry as well as the spreadibility of media as vlogging provides a wide platform for information. We hope you enjoy the show.
Visual Loop Sampling and Facebook Live
I was talking yesterday with a podcast group thinking about vlogging. One subject that came up, but that might not make its way into their episode is the impact of Facebook Live and Instagram Stories trying to poach YouTube's hold on vlogging. Given ...
Visualizing Human-Caused Seismic Activity
There has been a dramatic increase in seismic activity in the United States in the past ten years, some of which is caused by fracking but much more of which is the result of waste water from traditional oil and gas drilling; this waste water is rei ...
Visualizing a quote: Ira Glass on the secret of success in creative work
The Taste Gap The videos below are two different versions of visualizing a quote from an interview with American public radio personality and host of the podcast This American Life, Ira Glass. David Shiyang Liu created the kinetic type representat ...
Cinemegraph
Due: 10/30 Tag: sk9 For this assignment, I’d like you to create your very own cinemagraph — it can be a landscape, or a portrait, or a movie scene, or whatever else you’d like to try. Scroll down for lots of examples of cinemag ...
Movie Montage
Due: 10/16 Converting DVD to MP4 In order to create the movie montage, you need to have a feature length film in a format that you can watch in VLC. If you have a DVD player in your laptop or desktop, you can skip this step and just open t ...