Blogging, Gossip, and Technology
Weblogs are a constantly developing medium, and as such, often take on a place in our culture in unusual ways. Each individual blogger chooses which direction they feel fit to explore. Sometimes a weblog can have a life of its own and take on a new direction that was not originally intended. A weblog can be used for strict news-based information, sometimes a gossip column, and often a public sort of digital diary.
With such a cultural phenomenon, it almost seems right that TV should latch on to weblogs. Recently, a show debuted called Gossip Girl on The CW. It involves the stories of some Upper East Side New York teenagers and there forays in to sex, drugs, and other common teenage issues. It also adds the opposing viewpoints of a couple of kids from completely different social and economic backgrounds for contrast.
What makes this series different from the rest, is that the narration and conflict or provided by the anonymous blogger known as “Gossip Girl”. No one knows who she is, but the subjects of her gossip weblogs stir the pot of the teenage community and often share intimate details of particular people’s lives.
The use of a blogger as a basis for the show is new territory. The show has even used widgets as part of their advertising campaign. (See above) The show pilot episode aired on 9/19 and it should be interesting to see how the public latches on to the use of a fairly new technological tool such as the weblog.
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December 5th, 2007 at 2:48 am
I like this video, Because it contains many video in one video file.