Antropodi-podcasts guest this week is a PhD researcher Reneta Lisowski, who combined her passion of making reaction videos and researching cultures in her doctoral research, where she takes a participatory position in online fan-culture producing UMK-reaction videos to her own Youtube-channel. Renata Lisowski is conducting her research at the University of Jyväskylä, in the Department of Music, Art and Culture studies.

Reaction videos are a niche of media-culture, where the content producer aims in immersing themselves in to a new experience, recording it and sharing it to the audience. The goal is to share first thoughts and display feelings that are authentic and emerging in time of the video recording. There is no script for reaction videos, and they function as a commentary on the media material the producer reacts to. These videos app ...