[Air-L] Ten years ago: The lonelygirl15 scandal

[Burcu Bakioglu]

Wow. congrats... Coincidentally, my second article on Lonelygirl15 and
early YouTube culture just got published last week in Convergence, may be
of interest:
http://con.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/08/18/1354856516655527.full.pdf?ijkey=dNfSDXOVrhygD1L&keytype=finite

The first article deals with LG15 and fan ARGs and is published on
Transformative Works if that is of interest to you.

All the best.

Burcu

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Rainer Hillrichs <hillrichs at uni-mannheim.de
> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> today ten years ago, the *LA Times
> <http://articles.latimes.com/2006/sep/08/entertainment/et-lonelygirl8>
> *reported
> that an Email sent from the lonelygirl15 YouTube account had been tracked
> back to the Creative Artists Agency. A couple of days later, three men in
> their twenties stepped forth and revealed that they were running the
> lonelygirl15 and Danielbeast channels and producing the videos. Bree
> (lonelygirl15) and Daniel were not teenagers vlogging their lives but
> fictional characters played by two obscure actors. Fans were divided about
> what to make of the news; some of them were seriously disappointed.
>
> In my open access e-book *Poetics of Early YouTube: Production,
> Performance, Success* <http://hss.ulb.uni-bonn.de/2016/4407/4407.pdf> I
> deal - among other things - with modes of performance in early YouTube
> culture. I show that video blog­ging was not a practice of confessional
> self performances which was corrupted by the insincerity of 'fakes' like
> lonelygirl15 but a practice in which different modes of performance were
> creatively employed from the very beginning.
>
> If you want to review the book for a journal: You're most welcome!
>
> Best,
> Rainer
>
> --
> Dr. Rainer Hillrichs
> Universität Mannheim
> https://uni-mannheim.academia.edu/RainerHillrichs
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Thanks,


Burcu S. Bakioglu, Ph.D.

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