Andrea- thank you for that enlightening post. It helps to answer Jamie's question regarding how these neknom videos actually get shared and circulated. The question of context, as you say, is central to how these videos are read and interpreted. I li ...
Thanks for this post April. This was the first time I watched this footage and I was instantly struck by its similarity to the Delta Chi rape case in Florida in 1999 (which later became the subject of a documentary Raw Deal: A Question of Consent), which ...
That's a really brilliant reading of the clip Peter, which I agree is quite unwatchable. You are right that the repetition of word dead is striking as are the kind of bizarre and extreme analogies he comes up with (she's deader than Caylee Antho ...
Johnny- this is really interesting. It seems as though the Internet has the potential to both heighten and dull the reality effect and potential shock value of such clips- often simultaneously. The clip is very performative- and as Tina says, curiously so ...
Peter – this is very powerful. I found it difficult to watch – though obviously in a different way to the Steubenville clip. I was disoriented by it and was really straining to try to see what was going on, with the unsettling soundscape heightening its i ...
As commenter
Contextualising NekNoms
Fascinating post
Reenactment
Watching snuff
Peter – this is very
Pages