Video captures
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[edit] Introduction
Video Captures or Vid-Caps are defined by Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT and author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, as "images grabbed digitally from the television broadcast so that they can be examined more closely by the members of the knowledge community or so that they simply can be enjoyed by fans of the series."
[edit] Examples of Vid-Caps used by Jenkins
In Convergence Culture, Jenkins uses the example of the Survivor reality show online spoiler groups and their use of Vid-Caps to confirm or reject rumors about which contestant would be "booted" from their tribe next.
[edit] Other Examples of Vid-Caps
Another example of the use of Vid-Caps is the recently released trailer for Activision's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Within hours of the trailer being aired during the NFL Draft on April 28, 2007, websites such as Planet CallofDuty had posted several versions of the 1 minute 37 second trailer so that fans of the Call of Duty series could attempt to extrapolate new features and facets of the game.
[edit] External links
[1] Henry Jenkins Weblog
[2] Planet CallofDuty
[edit] References
“Covergence Culture. Where Old and New Media Collide, Buying Into American Idol.” Henry Jenkins. 2006 New York University Press.
