Seunghyun Yoo

"Mimicking Vlogs"

Section MS14, Jermaine Francis

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People provide subjective or objective information through the media and we receive a lot of information through them. However, when it is connected with the actual experience, you may feel that the information is completely different or you may discover new information.

Since I’ve lived in London I have been watching a lot of Vlogs of people’s life or travels here. I’m unfamiliar with this city, I followed the advice of people in the Vlogs and visited the same places or restaurants they did. Sometimes the information was useful but sometimes it wasn’t.

We know that the information and people’s lives we encounter through the media are very incomplete and fragmented. But we often forget this when we lie down at home and watch YouTube. What you see on the screen looks very ideal and complete. I want to express the gap between simply watching the media and connecting it to real life.