Sunday, April 3, 2011
CamGirls
I really enjoyed reading Camgirls. I, like many of the others on here, wasn't really sure of what being a cam girl meant. After reading the book it does bring up questions like why would anyone want to put so much of their life online for the world to see. Are they just calling out for attention? Is it because they lack self esteem and feel as if they can gain from doing this? It is true when you look up can girls many websites of pornographic nature pop up. Websites like facebook and twitter allow people to put up their life's stories, but only video websites like youtube allow people to make literal videos of their life. I agree with one of the other students here that said they thought camgirls were just the people who did makeup and hair tutorials on sites like youtube, but it is so much more then that. It used to be about women wanting to become instant celebrities, but now it seems as if you cant even find out what a cam girl used to be, because now our society has made it much more sexual, and put a pornographic spin on it. My question for the author is whether there are websites you can find original type of cam girl posts that arent pornographic.
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I disagree with your statement that Camgirls were about becoming instant celebrities. Senft actually comments on whether these girls wanted to be "micro-celebrities". From her research I gathered these girls put there lives on webcams as more of a social experiment or to express themselves artistically. These girls built allowed people to watch them, interpret their lives and built a community out of it. I'm not sure how much of that had to do with becoming an instant celebrity. I think the evidence that Senft provides shows these girls used webcams to explore their identity and interact with the reactions from their viewers. Maybe this had more to do with an interpersonal identity building then with simply acquiring fame?
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