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

[Jenni Powell]

I love seeing all the lg15 love.  If those not aware, I'm bringing it back.
 ;)

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Burcu Bakioglu <bbakiogl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>
> --
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>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Burcu S. Bakioglu, Ph.D.
>
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