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Vlogs as Modern-Day Diaries

This paper will offer a historical overview of diary as a literary genre and focus on those written and read by children. Along with diaries, the paper will deal with the development of vlogs, online video logs, as a relatively new phenomenon in the digital age, and in which ways these two categories are similar or different. The Internet has had impact on social interactions and the influence of vlogs may be indicative of those changes, thus becoming a rewarding subject of academic research. By looking at diaries and vlogs in the context of “convergence culture” (Jenkins 2006), the main aim of this paper was to discover how the impact of vlogs contributes to the way people are connecting and communicating with each other in sharing their everyday occurrences online. By using the analysis of vlogs from three different YouTube channels, it is clear that people nowadays are not only making and uploading videos for entertainment, but to connect with others and share their lives with like-minded people, as well as for creating a database of their own memories and developing crucial skills in the modern age.

diaries ; children, vlogs ; media convergence ; YouTube ; communication

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