The podcast show which me and my partner, Carly Oakman, have chosen to emulate, is the newer podcast created by On The Media called TLDR. TLDR tackles prominent, relevant issues taking place in the media, off- and on-line. TLDR uses a mixture of interview based podcasts as well as podcasts based on the opinion of the speaker, and we are looking to use this to our advantage and try to mesh the two forms together. The speaker in the TLDR podcast usually uses the example of an event shown in the media and then use it to raise a point or question about the issue this event encompasses.
A few months ago, toward the end of 2013, there was a video posted by a popular Vine user and YouTuber, Nash Grier, as well as two members of the famous O2L YouTube group, listing "What guys look for in girls". This video received a multitude of negative responses due to the fact that the video was deprecating toward women, and women constitute the majority of Grier's audience. YouTubers such as Hank Green, one half of the Vlog Brothers' channel, and Savannah Brown, whose slam poetry video in response to Grier has almost half a million views, have given their opinion on this video, and raised an important issue which not many have discussed, even though YouTube is becoming more and more popular:
What responsibility do YouTubers have when creating videos? Should YouTubers be held responsible for the content they create?
SPARK helped us choose our topic because it helped us decide between the few podcasts we were uncertain of choosing between. It is an extremely helpful resource with narrowing topics to be more specific and finding interesting topics.
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