Check Out the Video I Made!!

For my final post I just wanted to say that it has been interesting viewing new media items from all the different perspectives you all provide. I managed to take some of the reoccurring themes in the class and made a mashup video as a way to end the class. Hope you all enjoyed blogging and commenting as much as I did ;)

Old Media = New Media

I was watching Conan a few nights ago when I saw the above segment. Conan parody's most vlogs by "creating" his own and acting like a tween/teen (who make up the majority of the vlogging audience). The fact that he was able to parody vlogs and get laughs shows how mainstream they are becoming. Yet what I find interesting is that it seems old media, like television, is needed to verify/confirm new media like vlogs. We have toughed on this issue before in class but to see it play out like this is interesting. Old media, though somewhat in decline, seems to have a certain air of trust/seniority that grants it the right to "allow" other media to exist. I wonder if this means that some old media will never fully disappear or if one day it will be vlogs that introduce new media the way television is doing now.