This blog is the last blog of BCM241, and this blog will also serve as the basis for my research report. I will re-describe my process of doing digital media in this blog.
My media niche is positioned for young women who love long manicures. Therefore, the photos I post on Instagram are all photos of long manicures that are in line with the aesthetics of young people. Although it didn’t attract a lot of attention. But several viewers also liked their favorite nail art.
In the course of my digital media creation, I have received some feedback on how I can change the following blog and published content. For example, I received a comment asking me to write ins as Instagram, because I don’t know how people in foreign countries write social media names. I think it is a very useful suggestion. I will write ins as Instagram in subsequent blogs.
In the process of creating digital media, I carefully studied the research process of autoethnography, observed the social media content of the same type of bloggers, and based on the feedback from the audience, I experienced two epiphany processes.My first epiphany was when I posted an intricate hand-painted long manicure and received a like from a stranger, which let me know that my audience likes hand-painted manicures, and through my observation of other bloggers of the same type I found that complex hand-painted manicures are often more popular with the public, so I also released more complex hand-painted manicures in my later updates, hoping to attract everyone’s love.When it comes to privacy issues, I will code the audience’s information.
The second epiphany was when I was doing statistics on my social media and I found that a photo was liked by two people, and the photo I posted was a cute style of long manicures, which made me realize that I am targeting a good portion of my target group. People love cute style manicures. What I discovered through my own ethnography research was that I couldn’t just update based on my favorite style, but when the audience’s signals indicated what they liked, I had to update more of what the audience liked. So I went to observe the same type of bloggers, and I found that they will update according to the type of request in the comment section. So after I updated a cute style nail art, I updated a cute style nail art, and sure enough, someone liked this photo after my update.
In summary, I have a clear idea of how to be my own DA, and I will continue to update my social media content in the future, and I will continue to research my niche based on the research method of autoethnography, for my future The report lays the foundation.
Reference
Cheryl S, L, R, 2017, ‘Exploring rigour in autoethnographic research’, ABINGDON: Routledge, vol.20
Yining li 