Vlogs

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 Amazon Mechanical Turk to determine what kind of personality traits the vlogger might have. 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.