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The challenge of creating reliable technology-based resources for science learning is a perennial challenge in Philippine education, with limited learning materials accessible to all learners. This study is about the development of a videocast embedded with physics education technology (PhET) simulation that served as supplementary learning material for grade 9 science in response to the scarcity of dependable visualization materials. The study employed the developmental research design with analysisdesign-development-implementation-evaluation (ADDIE) model as the developmental framework. The vodcast evaluation tool, achievement test questionnaire, and vodcast perception survey questionnaire for students and teachers were used in the data collection, while the Kendall's W statistic, mean, percentage, and gain score were used in the data interpretation. The teacher respondents (N=64) have moderate agreement on the ranking of topic difficulty, with Kendall's W of 0.45. The researcher-made vodcast attained an overall rating of 4.78 from experts, which implies that the vodcast can be very good material for classroom implementation. The developed achievement test has acceptable difficulty and discrimination indices. The implementation stage yielded a low normalized gain, which can be accounted for by unfocused attention during the pandemic. Nevertheless, the voicecasts were found very useful in learning projectile motion, as perceived by both students and teacher-observers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Travel vlogs are considered as video forms of online review, usually generated by tourists and mainly shared on social media platforms. They provide a visual and personal perspective of a destination, inspiring and guiding viewers on where to go and what to do. This study identified the impact of travel vlog videos on tourists' visit intentions by collecting 231 responses from Bangladeshi residents with a structured, self-administered survey. The findings indicated that tourists perceive travel vlog videos as valuable and trustworthy based on the quality of travel vlog information and vlogger credibility, which subsequently influence the tourists to adopt the vlog information and their visit intention. Theoretically, this study contributes by extending the Information Adoption Model (IAM) with information trust and tourists' visit intention. Practically, the present study provides several implications for tourism stakeholders, specifically destination marketing organisations (DMOs). Finally, the study concludes by indicating several limitations and recommendations for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the rapid development of technologies, the Internet has become the primary source of information. In recent years, blogs and videos on the Internet have become the primary source of health-related information. About four out of five people trust the online information posted by anonymous people and access it for their own benefit. More specifically, the simple home remedies or natural remedies for minor health issues available on YouTube gain more attention among all age groups. Numerous viewers not only watch them; they even try or use these remedies personally for magical cures. However, the quality of the information about simple treatments and home remedies available on YouTube may not be accurate, reliable, useful, or trustworthy. Moreover, it is not simple to distinguish reliable information from misleading, false information. Thus, the main objective of this research work is to provide a quality enhanced recommendation of YouTube videos based on the user's preferences. In order to achieve the objective, the proposed work computes the scores for content relevancy and content reliability. The analysis of content reliability is two-fold, with implicit evaluation using structural analysis and explicit evaluation via sentimental analysis on YouTube video comments. The experimental and result analysis performed for the proposed work shows that the predicted ratings and the order of recommendations are more useful and have improved performance on reliability of the video content. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As Internet technology continues to advance and as various social media platforms proliferate, consumers have gained the ability to distribute video content across a multitude of online channels. A vlog (video blog) is an online video documentary format used by vloggers (video bloggers) to record their daily lives and share their experiences with various products. In recent years, Vloggers who publish vlogs on social media have gained increasing popularity. The use of vlogs to convey product information has received widespread attention, leading an increasing number of companies to consider them part of their marketing mix and actively incorporate them into their marketing strategies. However, it is still unclear which factors influence consumer attitudes while watching vlogs. Therefore, it has become a focus of attention in both academia and the business world to clarify how vlog promotion content influences consumer attitudes and to use vlog promotion to improve consumer attitudes, thereby increasing consumers' purchase intentions and achieving brand promotion objectives. The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the factors that influence consumer attitudes towards vlog promotion content. This article is based on the ABC attitude model theory, and data collected through an online questionnaire survey of Chinese consumers were analysed to statistically verify the relationship between consumers' purchase intentions and factors related to vlog content. The predictor variables included trust in vlog, vlogger popularity, vlogger personal appeal, understanding of vlogger advertised products, vlog content, and frequency of interaction between vlogger and fans. Path analysis revealed that two intermediate variables related to vlogger (cognition and emotion) had a positive impact, and a model was constructed to further examine their influence on consumer behaviour (dependent variable). The research findings of this study reveal that three key factors significantly influence consumer attitudes towards vlog promotion. These factors encompass the understanding of vlogger's advertised products, vlog's content, and the frequency of interaction between vlogger and fans. For future vlog promotions, it is recommended to augment the vlogger's product knowledge and approachability. To create captivating vlog content, emphasis should be placed on enhancing its entertainment value, establishing personal connections with viewers, and encouraging shareability. Moreover, the vlogger should actively engage with dedicated fans, prioritize valuable fan comments, and foster harmonious relationships. Furthermore, the findings of this study demonstrate the effectiveness of vlog promotion for various brands and services, providing valuable insights into the content of promotional activities for different brands and services. This highlights the strategic significance of vlog promotion and its relevance in guiding promotional strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Vlogging constitutes a potential advertising channel for branded products. This paper aims to investigate the role and antecedents of the learning value, i.e. substantive (vs nonsubstantive) information processing, in consumers' purchase behavior online. Design/methodology/approach: The authors used a mixed-methods approach including qualitative data from 25 interviews, and two quantitative studies (a field study on 4,560 members of a vlogging learning community and a replication survey on 118 participants in a different context). Findings: The results highlight the predominant role played by perceived learning due to the characteristics of the online environment. The authors further identify the components of vlog tutorials' learning value. The findings distinguish structured from destructured learning content depending on consumers' level of expertise. Practical implications: The findings recommend developing the learning value for consumers. Managers should provide micro learning unit tutorials for expert consumers and complete structured learning units for novices based on core and additional learning components. Originality/value: In contrast with traditional entertainment videos, tutorials provide added learning value that affects purchase behaviors to a greater extent. The results present in learning components that are recommended when developing learning tutorials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the article is to clarify the genre-thematic classification of video blogging and the specific features of its affiliation with stylistic characteristics through the lens of a scientific approach. At present, there is no official classification of video blogging, but there are some types that help partially group all the variety of content into a single system. Methodology. The following methods were used during the study: scientific, content analysis, descriptive, statistical, comparative. The scientific novelty is to investigate video blogging as a subject of scientific analysis and study the genres of individual video platforms and online communities in terms of risks and opportunities. Conclusions. Video blogging is a relatively new concept that embodies an activity that is described by a communication function and a hybrid genre that has emerged as a result of technological progress. This phenomenon combines several genres, including the genres of comments and posts, and accompanies communicative situations on the Internet. The genre of this phenomenon is explained by its mobile features, because new modern videos are created every day, and they are difficult to refer to a specific topic because they are constantly mixed and modified with each other. The author's attitude towards his or her audience depends on aspects of individuality and aspects of personality. Today, a considerable number of successful video blogs are products of mass Internet consumption, devoid of monotonous content, which factor in the interests of the audience and help the film as efficiently as possible due to additional effects and editing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite being ubiquitous and embedded in everyday life, 'the centrality of the Internet is still under-theorized in much masculinities research'. Contributing to the knowledge base in this area, here we place under the microscope the performance of heteromasculinities undertaken by the three most popular YouTube gaming vloggers in 2015-2016: PewDiePie, VanossGaming and Sky Does Minecraft. The focus of this article thus sits at the intersection of YouTube vlogging and gaming cultures, a site that is of particular sociological interest given the latter's associations with the (re)production and function of hegemonic masculinity. In examining the performances and constructions of gender by male gamers on YouTube, our research adds to the growing body of work highlighting the emergence of increasing levels of complexity in the construction of contemporary masculine identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over several years, the YouTube channel Eat Your Kimchi, a White expatriate video log about South Korea, generated a sizeable audience. In the videos, Martina and Simon Stawski draw upon discourses that empower their identities as a privileged group of cultural outsiders-valued and othered for their White difference. To benefit from their global advantage, they essentialize differences between the West/themselves and Korea/ns in order to emphasize White and Western superiority. As a consequence, they reject hybridity by both mocking Korea/ns as an exotic other and by consuming it as an exotic delight. Their strategies reflect colonial-era discourses seen in the travel logs of White 'adventurers' that are transformed to the current social, global, and technological conjuncture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Vodcasts (video podcasts) are becoming increasingly popular in medical education. At A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona (ATSU SOMA), vodcasts are an essential component of our blended learning environment, where year 2-4 students train in a contextual setting at community health centers across the U.S. Vodcasts are used far less frequently in our year 1 residential learning environment at the main campus in Arizona, but we are considering moving to significantly more interactive educational experiences with on-demand videos followed by in-class activities. The aim of this study was to determine stakeholder (i.e. medical student) preferences for vodcast design, format, and pedagogical strategies. The overall goal was to increase opportunities for students to learn with this modality. Methods: An interactive Qualtrics™ survey was administered to three cohorts of medical students. The survey generated quantitative and open-ended response data that addressed principles of vodcast instructional design and learning. Responses to survey items were analyzed for statistical significance using the independent samples t-test for interval data, the chi-square test for categorical data, and the Kruskal-Wallis test for ordinal data, using the post-hoc Bonferroni procedure to determine the appropriate α level. Responses to open-ended prompts were categorized using open- and axial-coding. Results: The most highly valued vodcast attributes, considered essential by all three cohorts, were clear explanations, organization, conciseness, high-yield for medical board exams, and the ability to speed vodcasts up. The least helpful vodcast attributes for all three cohorts were music and objects moving on screen. The average preferred vodcast length for each cohort was 27-28 min. There were significant differences between the less experienced learners in the residential setting and the more mature learners in the blended learning environment regarding certain vodcast attribute preferences, format of included practice questions, explanations for preferred vodcast lengths, and reasons for not viewing vodcasts. Conclusions: Overall, learner preferences were in line with non-interactive, screen-capture type vodcasts, which have lower demands on institutional cost and faculty production time than Flash™-type interactive vodcasts. Students in the blended learning environment were much more focused on vodcast features that decreased their time commitment, including a preference for noninteractive vodcasts. Given the increase in distance learning in medical education, our results should be of value to other medical programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We have recently witnessed the convergence of online social network services and online video services: users import videos from content sharing sites, and propagate them along the social connections by re-sharing them. Such social behaviors have dramatically reshaped how videos are disseminated, and users are now actively engaged as part of the social ecosystem, rather than being passive consumers. Despite the increasingly abundant bandwidth and computation resources, the ever increasing data volume of user generated video content and the boundless coverage of socialized sharing have presented unprecedented challenges. This article first presents the challenges in social-aware video delivery. Then we present a principal framework for social-aware video delivery and a state-of-the-art overview of approaches. Moreover, we identify the unique characteristics of social-aware video access and social content propagation, and reveal the design of individual modules and their integration toward enhancing users' experience in the social network context. Finally, we discuss future research directions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Video podcasts have become one of the fastest developing trends in learning and teaching. The study explored the effect of the presenting mode of educational video podcasts on the learning process and learning outcomes. Prior to viewing a video podcast, the 94 Chinese undergraduates participating in the study completed a demographic questionnaire and prior knowledge test. The learning process was investigated by eye-tracking and the learning outcome by a learning test. The results revealed that the participants using the video podcast with both the instructor and PPT slides gained the best learning outcomes. It was noted that they allocated much more visual attention to the instructor than to the PPT slides. It was additionally found that the 22 min was the time at which the participants reached the peak of mental fatigue. The results of our study imply that the use of educational technology is culture bound. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ABSTRACT Mall haul videos or vlogs are short videos in which young women not only present their fashion and beauty purchases but express their evaluations and opinions as well. The attitudes expressed could help the vlogger reap social rewards from a reference group or demonstrate the consistency between privately held attitudes and publicly expressed ones. In four studies, using the self-monitoring construct to identify which function an attitude may serve for an individual, the self-monitoring propensity of mall haul vloggers and the social-adjustive and value-expressive functions that posting and watching such vlogs fulfill for the individual was explored. In the first study, those who post and do not post mall haul vlogs were surveyed and results suggested that more high self-monitors than low self-monitors posted mall haul vlogs. In Study 2, a content analysis was conducted and revealed that low self-monitors in comparison to high self-monitors mentioned more brand names in their mall haul vlog. In Study 3, the valence of the product evaluations conveyed in mall haul vlogs by high and low self-monitors was analyzed. High self-monitors generated more positive messages than low self-monitors. Finally in Study 4, the links between self-monitoring on individuals' willingness to watch rather than post mall haul vlogs were examined. High self-monitors were more likely to watch a mall haul vlog when the retailer mentioned was perceived to possess high status (compared to medium or low status); while low self-monitors were more likely to watch a mall haul vlog when the retailer mentioned was perceived to possess low status (compared to medium or high status). Across all four studies, results indicated that mall haul vlogs were fulfilling a social-adjustive function for high self-monitors whereas they were fulfilling a value-expressive function for low self-monitors. Implications for marketing are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigated the utility of video blogs in improving EFL students' performance in giving oral presentations and, further, examined the students' perceptions toward video blogging. Thirty-six English-major juniors participated in a semester-long video blog project for which they uploaded their 3-min. virtual presentation clips over 18 weeks. Their virtual presentation clips were rated by three raters using a scale for speaking performance that contained 14 presentation skills. Data sources included presentation clips, reflections, and interviews. The results indicated that the students' overall presentation performance improved significantly. In particular, among the 14 presentation skills projection, intonation, posture, introduction, conclusion, and purpose saw the most substantial improvement. Finally, the qualitative data revealed that learners perceived that the video blog project facilitated learning but increased anxiety. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates audience design in monologues. The study uses video blogs, a spoken, asynchronous form of computer-mediated communication, to illustrate how talk reflects the lack of an immediately present audience. It is based on a corpus of English language vlogs collected from the video hosting site YouTube. The study demonstrates how speakers adapt to a mediated speech situation where there is not even minimal feedback and the speaker has to address absent viewers. Clark and Carlson's audience design (1992) and Bell's audience design (1984), introducing the notion of participant roles, are central constructs in the present study. It is argued that when vloggers (re)assign participant roles, the audience is actively involved, as they have to recognize their new status. The phenomena examined in this paper include multimodal, syntactical, and lexical features. The particular context of the medium and the monologic nature of the data will be given special consideration in the analysis of genre specific features. These include terms of address (e.g. YouTubers , YouTube , vlog fans ), directives/directed language (e.g. comment , rate , and subscribe , leave me a comment ). Other features under discussion include questions ( how are you guys doing ), voicing the audience, constructed dialogue, whispering, gestures, categorization etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The impact and evaluation of an educational tool “Renewable Energy Video sharing”, based on videocast techniques is presented in this paper. This tool arose from a learning innovation project developed in the Electronics and Automation Engineering Department at the University of Jaén. This experience consists of the elaboration of multimedia materials showing different ways of obtaining thermal energy and electricity from renewable resources as well as the equipment and the technology implicated in these process. Thus a video channel, implemented in YouTube™ platform, and an online space were implemented where these multimedia materials can be found and played, bringing technological reality closer to the final user – to the students in this specific case – in an easy, interactive and free way from any device with an internet connection. This learning tool was applied and used as a support in two ambits, face-to-face and non face-to-face education, in two different educational levels: Undergraduate and Postgraduate Education. Three subjects in the field of photovoltaic solar energy experienced the e-learning tool, obtaining a high degree of general satisfaction among students. After analyzing the impact of the implemented tool through personal final questionnaires among students, an improvement of the understanding of the theoretic concepts previously studied as well as the facility of access to the contents being the most appreciated benefits. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

In this article the author examines the concept of nonfictional, or documentary, performance as it applies to portrait films and Internet videos. The article provides a description of the evolution of the genre of portrait films, comments on the filmmaking of artist Andy Warhol, and analyzes the documentary film "24 City," directed by Jia Zhangke. The article also explores elements of documentary and experimental filmmaking that are evident in Internet videos and within video blogs and comments on installations and exhibitions focused on online videos from media artist Natalie Bookchin.

Video podcasting, or vodcasting, is the latest evolution of the podcast revolution. The market for on demand multimedia content spans the gamut, ranging from portable media players to computers, and increasingly to televisions through home media centres. This new mode of accessing content is rapidly growing in popularity, particularly among younger audiences. Vodcasting allows a direct link between consumer and content producer, bypassing traditional media networks, making it ideal for EPO efforts. Even modest budgets can yield compelling astronomy vodcasts that will appeal to a large audience. Gateways like the iTunes Store and video community websites such as Veoh and YouTube have created new content markets where none existed before. This paper highlights the key steps for producing a vodcast and shows some statistics from two leading astronomy vodcasts. The reader will see how to make (or improve) a science video podcast and learn about some of the latest developments in this rapidly-evolving field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Traditionally, the term 'jump cut' has described film or video edits that jump forward in time and detract from a sense of continuity. In the early days of online video platforms, such as YouTube, video bloggers employed jump cuts while editing their direct-address monologues to allow them to string together the best parts of the performance. It could even be said now that jump cutting a monologue is one of the inherent conventions of vlogging. This paper argues that vlogging culture has not only adopted the jump cut as core to its productions, but also adapted and evolved it for specific vlog use. The vlogging space is rich in moving image innovation and instances of this, such as the vlogging jump cut, need to be identified, analysed, and discussed -- just as occurred for cinema and television during their past periods of emergence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The internet has become a space where many sign language users post, watch, and share videos and video blogs (vlogs) through social media. This mass of videos produced by, for, and with deaf signers on the internet has yielded a new language ecology that also offers new opportunities for sign language research. We demonstrate how sign language researchers can use the internet for linguistic "fieldwork" by harnessing available, naturalistic sign language data from this online corpus of videos. We discuss a preliminary case study of first-person pronouns based on two vlogs, as a way of offering some practical guidelines for researchers who want to conduct methodologically valid sign language internet-based corpus studies. This case study examines the potential the internet offers for future research advancing the field of sign language linguistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We study authority baiting on YouTube, videos whose content is constructed around the theme of a filmmaker questioning an authority figure. Using the theoretical context of sousveillance we examine the ideology of these vloggers, the style of their videos, laws and regulations that impact on baiting, and the audience of these performances. We draw conclusions on the existence of this vlogging community based on an imbalance of power. This imbalance stems from the authority figure's position and from technology. The second of these is now almost completely eroded and these filmmakers are actively trying to erode the first. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]