Portion of Final Podcast

In my final research paper, I addressed the psychosocial attributes of personal poetry blogging. One aspect of this ever-growing form of self-publication and social interaction that I neglected to incorporate in this paper, however, is that of video blogging, a fairly new subset of personal poetry blogging. Video blogging is unique in that it allows for a viewer to not only examine the blog post from a reader-response perspective, but also to make rather precise assumptions about the author’s intent. This is possible because a viewer is not only a recipient of an intended message, but also an active element in the social exchange. By examining (or scrutinizing) a speaker’s body language, intonations, or otherwise unrecognizable peculiarities, a viewer can discern more accurately the intended interpretation. These same elements, though, can also beget negative repercussions because a viewer can all at once witness the author’s physical, mental and emotional states which may overexpose the author’s self and encroach on his or her privacy. Therefore, a video blogger (just like a standard blogger) must always keep in mind that his or her security could be at stake at any point in which the exposition of self is evident.
Video blogging is a rather simple process if one has a video camera, a previously established blog domain, and of course, internet access. When setting up a blog, there are several applications one can choose to apply to it which are provided by the blogging site such as Blogger. One of these applications is entitled “Video.” One merely needs to click on this proposed application whereby the site will automatically alter the individual’s blog, making it ready to post videos. All that’s left for the individual to do from there is to shoot a poetry video and save it onto a file in his or her computer. From there, the file can be uploaded onto the blog for all to see. Adding a podcast to a blog, such as this one, in addition to video, requires the same basic tenets to function correctly.
Adding an audio poetry podcast, whether personal or informative, to a blog is another method of social interplay not discussed in my research paper, but is definitely one to take note of. Poetry podcasting carries with it all the same advantages of interpretation as a video podcast except, of course, for the visual factor. This is okay, though. In fact, it’s probably better than okay for privacy reasons as well as for interpretive technique. When removing the visual component from the process of signification all that remains to convey the message is the interpretive value of word choice combined with the changes in pitch and tone. Without the visual component, a listener is forced to hone in solely on the audio which could be argued allows for the listener to create his or her own visuals, thereby helping to structure the interpretation , and in so doing, creating an image of self.