also, the amount of time it takes to make video, manage a site, and promote your stuff through social structures (like this list, for example). this is time that some cannot afford with any consistency and one of the reasons for that can be economic.especially if you're like a video perfectionist!
no doubt !
Also, my daughter will be 2 in July. These first few years with her have been amazing and she takes priority over me goofing around with videoblogging :)
My day job def is what really kills me, though.
Yup, that's what I spend more and more time working on and being more and more bitter about it :)
sullOn 4/19/06, Anne Walk <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:pontificate away, Gena! it's important to have these kinds of discussions on the group, too, i think.
i believe that economics has a huge role to play in who videoblogs. not just because of of the amount of money it takes to get hardware and software and a decent internet connection but, also, the amount of time it takes to make video, manage a site, and promote your stuff through social structures (like this list, for example). this is time that some cannot afford with any consistency and one of the reasons for that can be economic.
Other factors come in that are rooted in culture (which can also be economic). For example, i come from a very poor, part native, Mormon (!) family that values hard, physical work. vlogging and blogging are considered hobbies that take time away from making a living and/or cooking and cleaning. while i am the type of person to push at boundaries, not everyone is prepared to make the type of financial and cultural commitment to vlogging that people in this group have.
be that as it may, i also agree with gena that it isn't just a middleclass white male phenomenon. it just seems like it.
On 4/18/06, Gena < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Wow - I'd love to put my two cents in this discussion.
I will step over and check out the site but I do want to assure you
this ain't just a middle-class white male game. There are quite a few
vloggers of color and of the female gender.
There are times when it is an issue and others when it has nothing to
do with the act of vlogging. On of the reasons I vlog is that as an
African-American woman I am not represented in MSM. I keep my butt
cheeks covered.
I have recorded videos of black folks doing other things that are not
represented on MSM. I haven't done near enough of it but that is due
to lack to time. That time thing is a killer.
It is a double edge sword under my neck. Should it make a difference
what I look like? No. Is it important that a person like me vlogs?
Absolutely. What do I bring to the conversation?
Okay, I know, write a letter, pontificate on my own vlog.
Gena
http://outonthestoop.blogspot.com
http://voxmedia.org/wiki/Video
...growing bit by bit with some of the answers to vlogging.
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