Editing Vlog (section)

== Uses ==

===Impressions===

Vlogs have made it possible to learn about a Vlogger's persona, culture, and impressions using non-verbal hints. Researchers have conducted experiments using crowdsourcing for Amazons Mechanical Turk to determine what kind of personality traits the Vlogger might have.<ref name=":33" /> Many Vlogs have been personified by five big personality traits such as Extraversion, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, and Openness to Experience. Along with Mechanical Turk, researchers also looked at the cues that take place within Vlogs. Vlogs can be broken down to their elements considering that there are a lot of factors that play in the creation of one such as placement of camera, lighting, location, amount of time spent looking at the camera, pitch, delivery and amount of the interactions. Using this information and crowdsourcing, results have revealed that the highest rate in personality research was Agreeableness which makes Vlogging a great place to form Agreeable impressions. However, more non-verbal hints are more noticeable in other form traits such as Extraversion. Regardless, Personality impressions have made a more interesting Vlog viewing experience.<ref name=":33">{{Cite journal|last1=Biel|first1=Joan-Isaac|last2=Gatica-Perez|first2=Daniel|date=January 2013|title=The YouTube Lens: Crowdsourced Personality Impressions and Audiovisual Analysis of Vlogs|journal=IEEE Transactions on Multimedia|volume=15|issue=1|pages=41–55|doi=10.1109/tmm.2012.2225032|s2cid=11639330|issn=1520-9210}}</ref>

===Education===

Vlogging has been experimented with school systems to determine if it is a reliable platform to deliver higher educational practices to students. Researchers have done an experiment that placed 42 college [[freshmen]] into a control and experimental group of 21 each.<ref name=":13" /> Oral proficiency exams were given to all students to reflect their current speech skills, after a year of teachings based on each of the groups preference. The control group was instructed to work with their standard writing skills and create their own blogs, while the Experimental group tested their skills with online interaction. Scores for both groups had increased after both tests, however the experimental group had outperformed the control group due to the improvement of speech proficiency that came as a result of a more interactive learning environment between teachers and classmates. The control group claimed that not using video blogs "lowered their confidence" in their speaking proficiency.<ref name=":13">{{Cite journal|last=Liu|first=Mei-hui|date=July 2016|title=Blending a class video blog to optimize student learning outcomes in higher education|journal=The Internet and Higher Education|volume=30|pages=44–53|doi=10.1016/j.iheduc.2016.03.001}}</ref>

===Health===
Researchers have investigated how vlog-style YouTube videos made by creators who suffer from chronic illnesses can raise health awareness among viewers and create social communities among those suffering. A 2014 study evaluated the contextual relationship between vloggers who shared that they had diabetes, cancer, or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and their audiences.<ref name=":03" />  Most of the creators of these vlogs chose to focus their videos on how disease diagnosis and treatment had impacted them physically and emotionally. Commenters on the vlogs who shared personal characteristics formed ad hoc small groups; these impromptu support groups expanded over time as more and more people discovered the health vlogs.<ref name=":03"/>

=== Women's rights ===
Vlogging is used by both feminist and anti-feminist voices to share their points of view.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Zahay |first=Megan L. |date=2022-11-29 |title=What "Real" Women Want: Alt-Right Femininity Vlogs as an Anti-Feminist Populist Aesthetic |url=https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5726 |journal=Media and Communication |language=en |volume=10 |issue=4 |pages=170–179 |doi=10.17645/mac.v10i4.5726 |doi-access=free |issn=2183-2439}}</ref> For the former, vloggers such as [[Hayla Ghazal]] who is based in Dubai, use humour to point our disparities between attitudes to genders in their country.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Light |first=David |title=Dubai's Hayla TV reveals secrets behind 9million YouTube fans |url=https://www.khaleejtimes.com/local-events/dubais-hayla-tv-reveals-secrets-behind-9million-youtube-fans |access-date=2025-01-11 |website=Khaleej Times |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=hello@lovindubai.com |date=2016-12-20 |title=These Are The Four Arab Women You NEED To Follow on YouTube |url=https://lovin.co/dubai/en/feature/four-arab-women-you-need-to-follow-on-youtube/ |access-date=2025-01-11 |website=Lovin Dubai |language=en-US}}</ref> The latter might involve "[[tradwife]]" content, for example.<ref name=":0" />