Wired 14.12: The Secret World of Lonelygirl - 0 views
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Lonelygirl15 wouldn't exist without the explosion of broadband and the advent of YouTube – and partly by the appeal of a hybrid form of storytelling. Lonelygirl15 is a mashup of homemade video diary, soap opera, and mysterious, hint-laden narrative like Lost.
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Heather Wenzel on 17 Apr 08I really like these two senteces. It shows how much technology has changed, while also showing the genres that society finds intrigueing. YouTube is the new way to watch "television" and and they even compare Lonelygirl15 to Lost. It is amazing how far we have come.
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In short, they were planning to exploit the anonymity of the Internet to pull off a new kind of storytelling, and they worried they were on shaky legal ground.
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Goodfried's advice was simple. "If anyone asks point-blank if you're real, don't answer the question," he said. "Don't lie to people. The answer is no answer. In my mind, it's the equivalent of not lying. But if people talk to Bree like she's Bree, that's fair game."
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