Monday, 12 May 2008

Rise of the mobile video blog

Lonelygirl15 became a hit with online video watchers. It was a sort of teenager's blog, although the author was later "revealed" to be an actress working with a producer. But now our video diaries are moving off the webcam and onto our phones. Faster mobile connections, and all-inclusive data packages, means you do not need a wad of cash to upload from anywhere. And now more handsets include onboard editing, so you can just send the really good bits. More here.

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I am director of the Media and Persuasive Communication (MPC) network at Bangor University where I also lecture on political-economy of the media. I am currently working on a book provisionally titled Deconstructing Privacy for Peter Lang and leading two empirical projects in connection with privacy perception and the use of new media for smoking cessation. I am author of Creativity and Advertising: Affect, Events and Process (Routledge, 2013); The Mood of Information: A Critique of Behavioural Advertising (Continuum, 2011); and Digital Advertising (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2009). Please contact me at mcstay@bangor.ac.uk if you are interested in Ph.D supervision or consultancy services.