The Live-Streamers: Interactive Webcasting
Got a PC or a smartphone? Media-sharing sites will let you stream live and interactively. It could be called "self-casting" and it's a whole world of its own. In a single day, via a single site, 100,000 people might be streaming in this way. What motivates people to participate in this form of social media? We go to an annual convention of these live-streamers near Tokyo, and then profile a number of "hosts" we encounter there. They're connecting via such sites with large and small circles of "friends" they might never actually see, let alone meet. It's a new kind of society.
Aired: Jun 07, 2013 Genre: DocumentaryRating: 0 Country: Japan Production: NHK
Episodes
01: Close contact: The Sleepless Flower Shop in Kabukicho02: Farewell Shibuya, Kamaboko Station Building03: Osaka Kushikatsu Elegy04: Yokosuka Air Base, Operation Matchmaking05: Points of Departure: New Chitose Airport06: In the City of Closed Factories07: Enthusiastic Singing! Hitori Karaoke08: Kyoto Engiri Shrine09: Night Clinic: An ER of Last Resort10: The Live-Streamers: Interactive Webcasting11: Familyless Life Theater12: Underground Idols13: Dreams Bloom at Kochi Racecourse14: In Front of a Giant Manbow15: From the Last Shelter16: Climbing Mt. Fuji17: The "Rain, then Fine" Coin Laundry18: The Happiness Theory of Healthland19: Home Is Where the Locker Is—The Day Laborers of Osaka20: Yanaka Cemetery: Dialogs Between Death and Life21: Fly! Epsilon22: Yoshimoto: Summer Training Camp at the critical moment23: Personal Glimpses at a 24-Hour Gym24: The Game Center and the Prize Beyond the Prize25: The Makeup Room26: In Search of Hiroshima Taro27: Hitchhiking in the Seto Inland Sea28: The Call of the Dunes29: A Giant Travel Agency: Destinations and Detours30: The Post Office That Never Sleeps31: Night Train to Izumo: Destination - Destiny32: A Giant Bookstore: Wandering in a World of Words
