Student projects
Nasia Fotiadou, Margarita Papagiannouli, Georgia Paveli, Marina Rousiti, Evaggelia Stoumpaki
DisStracKtions: Interface and Social Interaction in Greek YouTube
In the framework of the undergraduate course entitled “Digital Storytelling and Multimedia Ethnography”, bearing in mind that the YouTube platform is one of the basic new forms of socially-oriented online communication and interaction and, at the same time, being attracted to the idea of creating a digital narrative that would raise issues such as interface, participatory culture and user/viewer entanglement, we set the goal of producing a digital reenactment through a multi-layered online narrative from the perspective of the viewer/user navigating the web. Given the fact that the currently emergent profession of YouTuber in Greece employs a number of techniques and promotional tools to attract new followers and keep the existing ones interested, we focused on a team of three YouTubers, who became much more popular after uploading some of their diss tracks, even though they were already micro-celebrities through their pre-existent gaming channels. Our footage was enriched by a semi-structured interview with one of the aforementioned YouTubers, which allowed us to develop a better understanding of both main and peripherally-relevant topics of interest. Being amateurs in digital production, we explored a series of non/semi-professional applications and programs to find a way to embed all the information, allowing for multiple ways to navigate our digital narrative. Different layers of data inherent in the digital version of photo collage were of equal interest to us, since they expose alternative ways of organizing visual material, intriguing the user/viewer to explore existing interpretations and narratives or even produce their own.
DisStracKtions: Interface and Social Interaction in Greek YouTube
In the framework of the undergraduate course entitled “Digital Storytelling and Multimedia Ethnography”, bearing in mind that the YouTube platform is one of the basic new forms of socially-oriented online communication and interaction and, at the same time, being attracted to the idea of creating a digital narrative that would raise issues such as interface, participatory culture and user/viewer entanglement, we set the goal of producing a digital reenactment through a multi-layered online narrative from the perspective of the viewer/user navigating the web. Given the fact that the currently emergent profession of YouTuber in Greece employs a number of techniques and promotional tools to attract new followers and keep the existing ones interested, we focused on a team of three YouTubers, who became much more popular after uploading some of their diss tracks, even though they were already micro-celebrities through their pre-existent gaming channels. Our footage was enriched by a semi-structured interview with one of the aforementioned YouTubers, which allowed us to develop a better understanding of both main and peripherally-relevant topics of interest. Being amateurs in digital production, we explored a series of non/semi-professional applications and programs to find a way to embed all the information, allowing for multiple ways to navigate our digital narrative. Different layers of data inherent in the digital version of photo collage were of equal interest to us, since they expose alternative ways of organizing visual material, intriguing the user/viewer to explore existing interpretations and narratives or even produce their own.