Performing YouTube: Exploring the techniques of the vlogger and their potential in live performance

表演 YouTube：探索视频博主的技术及其在现场表演中的潜力

• 批准号: 2371421
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lancaster University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2371421
• 关键词: Performing; YouTube; Exploring; techniques; vlogger

This Practice-as-Research PhD aims to analyse YouTube vlogs from a performance perspective and use the findings to inform the creation of live performance. YouTube is filled with examples of performance, but vlogs are specifically of interest as they are a direct product of the internet, and only exist in the digital world. Postdigital theory proposes that the binaries of digital vs. physical are no longer useful in analysing or conceptualising performance (Cramer 2015 and Causey 2016), whereas the manifestation of a digital from (vlogging), in the physical world would has the potential to be more practically and theoretically productive. With YouTube being a fairly recent media platform, it is not surprising that little has been written on it from a performance perspective. Andy Lavender (2016) has made a start by looking at different types of video on YouTube, different personas adopted by YouTubers, and other elements which contribute to performance on YouTube; but there is a gap of scholarship and practice in this area. YouTube is the second most visited website in the world (Alexa, 2017) and it seems imperative that we explore vlogging forms more closely as a mode of performance and in the context of live performance. The intersection of these two forms could result in new techniques for creating live performance and also allow space for critical reflection on vlogging as a form. After undertaking a comprehensive review of a selection of YouTube vlogs, I want to identify the techniques and strategies used, and then apply them to live contemporary performance practice. The aim is not to translate the vlogging work to the stage, but rather see what happens when we use these digital techniques to create live performance and when this digital form (vlogging) begins to manifest physically as part of a live performance encounter.

这个实践作为研究博士旨在从性能的角度分析YouTube视频博客，并使用研究结果来通知现场表演的创作。YouTube上充满了性能的例子，但视频博客特别有趣，因为它们是互联网的直接产品，并且只存在于数字世界中。后数字理论认为，数字与物理的二进制在分析或概念化性能方面不再有用（Cramer 2015和Causey 2016），而数字形式（vlogging）在物理世界中的表现将有可能在实践和理论上更具生产力。由于YouTube是一个相当新的媒体平台，因此很少从性能角度对其进行编写也就不足为奇了。Andy Lavender（2016）通过研究YouTube上不同类型的视频，YouTube用户采用的不同人物角色以及其他有助于YouTube表现的元素开始了研究;但在这方面存在学术和实践的差距。YouTube是世界上访问量第二大的网站（Alexa，2017），我们似乎有必要更密切地探索vlogging形式作为一种表演模式和现场表演的背景。这两种形式的交叉可能会产生新的技术来创建现场表演，并为vlogging作为一种形式提供批判性反思的空间。在对一系列YouTube视频博客进行全面审查后，我想确定所使用的技术和策略，然后将其应用于现场当代表演实践。我们的目的不是将vlogging工作转化为舞台，而是看看当我们使用这些数字技术来创建现场表演时会发生什么，以及当这种数字形式（vlogging）开始作为现场表演的一部分出现时会发生什么。