CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
4.3 A CTIVE S PREADER FROM R EVEALING TO S HARING
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4.3 Active Spreader from Revealing to Sharing 4.3.1 Release the Similar Photos
In the blog’s album, there are many group photos of Betty and her classmates.
They were not all taken by Betty. Some of these photos are from her classmates shooting themselves. There are some similar photos taken with the same gesture or in the same place. Figure 4.7 collects photos taken by herself and her friends facing themselves with cameras or mobile phones in their hands before mirrors.
Figure 4.7: Betty’s Album- Autodyning Facing Mirrors
There is an album classified as “Autodyne” in both Betty’s blog and Star’s. Star said that his autodyne would greatly promote his “popularity”. Many net friends, the known or the unknown, and classmates would visit his album. He specially mentioned
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that someone praised him as “a little handsome guy”. From the autodynes in the two albums (Figure 4.8 and Figure 4.9), you will know that nowadays many kids tend to imitate other bloggers’ gestures, such as gesturing YA and pouting. Betty explained that at first someone (a friend in the small group) liked to take photos with a gesture, and then others followed him/her. In her friends’ blogs there must be photos marked as “audodynes”.
We will take the photos which made us feel funny. If someone likes to take photos with a gesture, others will follow him/her. (Betty, November 17th, 2009)
覺得好玩，大家就都會拍這樣的相片，應該是某個人喜歡拍，後來大家就 跟著這樣拍。
Autodyne makes me more popular. Many net friends praised me as a little handsome guy after seeing my photos. (Star, November 14th, 2009)
放自拍會讓我人氣增加很多，網友都會來看，都說我是小帥哥。
Figure 4.8: Autodynes in Star’s Album
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Figure 4.9: Autodynes in Betty’s Album
Besides autodyne, Betty added some photos recommended by her friends to show that she agreed with them. Figure 4.10 is sent via live messenger by one of her friends who asked her to “support” the person in the picture. Betty said that the girl in the picture is a hot person on Wretch blog who was cool in both dressing and appearance. She decided to support her by establishing an album for her in the blog.
This girl’s name is Wu GT, who is very popular on Wretch. What a cool person!
This picture was sent through live messenger by my friend who asked me to support her. I think that she is so adorable that I want to support her. (Betty, November 17th, 2009)
這女生叫做吳 GT，她在無名超紅，帥爆了。是我一個朋友用及時傳給我，
叫我也支持一下她，我覺得她太帥了，所以決定也要支持一下。
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Figure 4.10: A Photo Recommended by Betty’s Friend in Betty’s Album
4.3.2 Sharing One’s Own Creations
Blog is a stage to show oneself. The kids not only keep memories in life and expand social life, but show their creativity and share their works. Betty found some special pictures in someone’s blog. Then she left a message for the blogger asking how to make the pictures. The blogger replied that the pictures were made by a kind of software which could be found on the Internet via key words. She could put pictures in the software following its instructions to edit into her own works. (Figure 4.11)
When I found some unique pictures on someone’s blog, I asked him how to make them. He told me where to download the software by giving me a website address.
These pictures could be used to memorize some special things. For example, I made an MV for my friend’s birthday. (Betty, November 17th, 2009)
我看到別人部落格有這樣的圖片，就去問他怎麼做的，他就告訴我去哪裡
用（下載某個軟體或是某個網站），可以拿來紀念一些事情，像是朋友生日
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就做一個 MV 送給她。
The kids may find online software via key words “photo editor” by search engines on the Internet. There are many patterns for them to choose. After confirming patterns, they upload photos they want to edit and download the new photos into their own computers. Figure 4.11 is Betty’s photo edited into a magic cube; Figure 4.12 is Betty’s photo printed on a bottle.
Figure 4.11: Betty’s Remaking Photo 1
Figure 4.12: Betty’s Remaking Photo 2
Besides photo editing, Betty learnt on the Internet that the photos can be edited into MVs. Figure 4.13 is a birthday gift from Betty to her friend. After choosing MV’s pattern, image, and background music, she uploaded photos in sequence to different places on each page. At last she added words into the pages. The MV was completed.
Betty put the finished MV on her blog marked as a gift for her friend.
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Figure 4.13: MV Made by Betty
There is another important aim in the album creation besides photo editing. That is, to records friendship. Betty added effects on photos of her and her classmates with editing software. In Figure 4.14, she added effects like a pair of glasses, rabbit ears, different eyes, a clown’s big round nose on the real nose, or tears below the eyes etc.
Moreover, she made the photo Figure 4.15 with the theme of good friends. In this photo, she circled hearts around photos of her and her friends and wrote “I love you”
to express her affection to her friends in the small group and show their friendship.
In the album, the edited photos own more popularity with more clicks than normal ones.
This kind of photos will be visited by more people and I will be more and more popular. If those are the normal ones, they will be less welcomed and I will be less popular. (Betty, November 17th, 2009)
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這樣的相片會有比較多人來看，我的人氣就會變很高，但是如果沒有，人氣 就不高，大家也比較不會想看。
Figure 4.14: Betty’s Edited Photo 1 Figure 4.15: Betty’s Edited Photo