Comments on: Are Video Comments “Oral”? http://cscannella.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/video-commenting/ a media studies blog. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:58:10 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Carlo Scannella http://cscannella.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/video-commenting/#comment-13 Carlo Scannella Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:22:24 +0000 http://cscannella.wordpress.com/?p=105#comment-13 I need to upload a picture...one of these days... :-) I need to upload a picture…one of these days… :-)

]]> By: Carlo Scannella http://cscannella.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/video-commenting/#comment-12 Carlo Scannella Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:22:04 +0000 http://cscannella.wordpress.com/?p=105#comment-12 That's a great point. So much of the interaction that happens in the comments section is this back and forth, and text allows us to quickly re-read and refer back to previous ideas. That would be especially clumsy with video. In that sense, I see video comments possibly *taking away* from the discourse and interaction that happens inside a blog. That’s a great point. So much of the interaction that happens in the comments section is this back and forth, and text allows us to quickly re-read and refer back to previous ideas.

That would be especially clumsy with video.

In that sense, I see video comments possibly *taking away* from the discourse and interaction that happens inside a blog.

]]> By: Michael http://cscannella.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/video-commenting/#comment-11 Michael Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:30:10 +0000 http://cscannella.wordpress.com/?p=105#comment-11 I wrote a (yet unpublished) paper on blog comments through the lens of rhetorical genre studies (applied linguistics), dealing with the way comments refer to other texts, including other comments. Using an oral mode may cause, among the problems you aptly mention, difficulties citing. A *very* useful feature of written text is its ability to be copied and pasted, say inside a blockquote. This allows a quick comparison between a comment on a comment, and the original comment. If I were watching video, I would almost certainly *have* to watch the original. That's...about as much fun as a barking dog. I wrote a (yet unpublished) paper on blog comments through the lens of rhetorical genre studies (applied linguistics), dealing with the way comments refer to other texts, including other comments.

Using an oral mode may cause, among the problems you aptly mention, difficulties citing. A *very* useful feature of written text is its ability to be copied and pasted, say inside a blockquote. This allows a quick comparison between a comment on a comment, and the original comment. If I were watching video, I would almost certainly *have* to watch the original.

That’s…about as much fun as a barking dog.

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