streaming, broadcasting and (v) blogs?
PURPOSE:
To develop a working definition.
streaming, broadcasting and (v) blogs?
Livestreaming refers to online streaming media simultaneously recorded and broadcast in real-time. It is often referred to simply as streaming, but this abbreviated term is ambiguous because "streaming" may refer to any media delivered and played back simultaneously without requiring a completely downloaded file. Non-live media such as video-on-demand, vlogs, and YouTube videos are technically streamed, but not live-streamed.
We all have by now experienced a livestream of something. With dance we can use live capture technology to offer a performance that occurs at a specific time and location anywhere in the world...LIVE. Livestreaming gives us the closest thing to being there where we can share an experience of dance with others simultaneously. Livestreaming is mostly happening through portals like YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo and others but it’s not strictly confined there. It can now happen in a Virtual Reality environment. It can happen using the technology of augmented reality bringing a live performance into your living room or on a bus, or at a park ,or in the dentist’s office. It is not just that it can happen Live in multiple time zones: it means that it can happen removed from the formalized spaces that have been deemed ‘suitable for live performance. This, then, is democratization of experience. It’s purpose is to be accessible everywhere to anyone at any time.
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model.[1][2] Broadcasting began with AM radio, which came into popular use around 1920 with the spread of vacuum tube radio transmitters and receivers. Before this, all forms of electronic communication (early radio, telephone, and telegraph) were one-to-one, with the message intended for a single recipient. The term broadcasting evolved from its use as the agricultural method of sowing seeds in a field by casting them broadly about.[3] It was later adopted for describing the widespread distribution of information by printed materials[4] or by telegraph.[5] Examples applying it to "one-to-many" radio transmissions of an individual station to multiple listeners appeared as early as 1898.[6]
A blog (a truncation of "weblog")[1] is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page. Until 2009, blogs were usually the work of a single individual,[citation needed] occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject or topic. In the 2010s, "multi-author blogs" (MABs) emerged, featuring the writing of multiple authors and sometimes professionally edited. MABs from newspapers, other media outlets, universities, think tanks, advocacy groups, and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog traffic. The rise of Twitter and other "microblogging" systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into the news media. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
A video blog or video log, sometimes shortened to vlog[1] (/vlɒɡ/), is a form of blog for which the medium is video.[2] Vlog entries often combine embedded video (or a video link) with supporting text, images, and other metadata. Entries can be recorded in one take or cut into multiple parts and are popular on video-sharing platforms like YouTube.
In recent years, "vlogging" has spawned a large community on social media, becoming one of the most popular forms of digital entertainment. It is popularly believed that, alongside being entertaining, vlogs can deliver deep context through imagery[3] as opposed to written blogs. They have also given birth to monetized influencers, who’s perfectly proscribed lives have flooded the posts of Facebook, Instagram and is bite size morsels Tik Tok.
