From my last post I decided that i wanted to follow a sports blog. To be honest I was struggling a lot to find a blog that would keep me interested as well as be a good candidate for this research. Not to say that I am not interested in sports but I just didn't think someone blogging it would keep me entertained. With this in my mind I set out to search for a new topic. So I have switched to the subject of Pop Culture. There is this blogger (I guess you can call him a vlogger because he makes video blogs) that really caught my eye. I have been following this user for quite some time but recently for 2 months stopped following him. When I say follow I mean subscribed yet I haven't really watched his video log posts. I am subscribed to his other channel which is more news oriented and I have been keeping up with that one. I have skimmed over some of his new video blog posts and they seem to be very random in general. I assume he will talk about that certain topic in the title within his videos and voice his opinions about it. His website is http://phillyd.tv/ and the place he keeps his video blogs is http://www.youtube.com/user/PhilipDeFranco. I personally would not reference his main site because he does not keep his video blogs updated with his youtube account. You can see that it is in a blog format and he links his videos with an embedded video itself but it is not up to date.
So with that cleared away I want to answer the question that was asked. I believe that because I am using a video blog as my reference, I can much easier pin point identities that the blogger has expressed. I can do this easier because it is like I get a one way face-to-face time with the blogger and have it almost feel like an actual conversation. Don't get me wrong though it is still going to be hard work analyzing these blogs to find his identity that he portrays. I just have a better vantage point than others because they don't exactly get that same one way face-to-face time when reading a written blog. I mean surely you can imagine the writer speaking as if you and the blogger were the only ones in the room. It will get the same effect. So far I have not been faced a difficult challenge in analyzing this blog. The blogger expresses himself very much and voices his opinion to his followers that care. From the recent video I find evidence that he is self conscious of his health. He starts a new weight loss program for himself where he tries to lose 20-30 pounds in 30 days. I guess one of his identities is he cares very much for his health and wellness. Throughout all his blogs he talks about different things mostly pertaining to him or just things about pop culture. It gives me a lot of room to work with and I hope to dig up some more elements that may help me support my argument.
That's interesting that yours is a video blog or written by a "vlogger", haha. One thing that came to mind when I was reading this is you could try using where he is when he records his videos. I'm assuming since bloggers are self-conscious about what they write and what their pictures and profiles look like, video bloggers would take care of where they are and what's in the background. Or even patterns of if he does it in the same place each time. I don't know if that would work but it's an idea! Good luck!
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