{"id":3557,"date":"2023-04-18T12:24:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T16:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/?p=3557"},"modified":"2023-09-28T11:45:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T15:45:15","slug":"enter-stage-right-the-video-essayist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/2023\/04\/18\/enter-stage-right-the-video-essayist\/","title":{"rendered":"Enter Stage Right, The Video Essayist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Honestly\u2026 Learning bits and pieces of information traditionally can cause a headache. Whether reading a dense, jargon-filled article or sitting through a slide show lecture taught by a professor, learning about new topics become boring, making us disinterested in whatever is being taught. Nowadays, most students just go to Google and YouTube to fully grasp the concept they are learning. YouTube houses millions of videos on various topics. Whether it be niche or popular, you can find it on YouTube.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Video essays have become quite accessible in recent years. Anyone with internet access and YouTube can find them easily. Over the past decade, there have been YouTubers publishing their visual essays for anyone and everyone to see. The topics of the videos vary depending on the essayist\u2019s and their target audience\u2019s interests. Some are analyses backed by research on pop culture and social issues. Others might center around the mechanics or lore of a game, or a TV show\u2019s power system. Topics are only limited to what the mind can imagine. Most videos average 10\u00a0 to 25 minutes for a single essay\u2013but some videos can last up to an hour or even longer! Each video is carefully crafted with substantial evidence to support their arguments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fetishizing the Black Athlete\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DPVKQiet0NU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today\u2019s recommended video essayist is a Bahamian YouTuber that goes by \u201cForeign,\u201d a shortened version of his channel name \u201cForeign Man in a Foreign Land.\u201d His videos mainly center his nuanced perspective as a Bahamian on predominately Western social and political issues. As an international student, Foreign studied Political Science at the University of Iowa in the United States. Here, he was exposed to conservative politics and rhetoric due to the institution\u2019s ideological leanings. However, his channel has more left-leaning political ideals and rhetoric. His unique perspective is insightful and provides needed representation in the majority racially white \u201cLeftTube.\u201d With humor subtly intertwined with his talking points, he also conducts interviews with those more knowledgeable on topics he\u2019s interested in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My recommended video today explores the history of black athletes and the perpetuation of harmful stereotypes such as the attribution of black excellence in sports to genetics. Foreign starts with an anecdote about his story as a black athlete and how he dealt with sexual harassment in his martial arts studio. He then connects this experience to the history of black athletes worldwide, and the eventual commodification of black bodies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Through this video, and by watching other video essayists on YouTube, educating ourselves on our interests and social issues has become more accessible!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly\u2026 Learning bits and pieces of information traditionally can cause a headache. Whether reading a dense, jargon-filled article or sitting <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/2023\/04\/18\/enter-stage-right-the-video-essayist\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2200,"featured_media":3559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reflections"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3562,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions\/3562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}