Overview
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.
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4 - 1Close contact: The Sleepless Flower Shop in Kabukicho April 05, 2013 -
4 - 2Farewell Shibuya, Kamaboko Station Building April 12, 2013 -
4 - 3Osaka Kushikatsu Elegy April 19, 2013 -
4 - 4Yokosuka Air Base, Operation Matchmaking April 26, 2013 -
4 - 5Points of Departure: New Chitose Airport May 03, 2013 -
4 - 6In the City of Closed Factories May 10, 2013 -
4 - 7Enthusiastic Singing! Hitori Karaoke May 17, 2013 -
4 - 8Kyoto Engiri Shrine May 24, 2013 -
4 - 9Night Clinic: An ER of Last Resort May 31, 2013 -
4 - 10The Live-Streamers: Interactive Webcasting June 07, 2013 -
4 - 11Familyless Life Theater June 14, 2013 -
4 - 12Underground Idols June 21, 2013 -
4 - 13Dreams Bloom at Kochi Racecourse June 28, 2013 -
4 - 14In Front of a Giant Manbow July 05, 2013 -
4 - 15From the Last Shelter July 19, 2013 -
4 - 16Climbing Mt. Fuji July 26, 2013 -
4 - 17The "Rain, then Fine" Coin Laundry August 02, 2013 -
4 - 18The Happiness Theory of Healthland September 06, 2013 -
4 - 19Home Is Where the Locker Is—The Day Laborers of Osaka September 13, 2013 -
4 - 20Yanaka Cemetery: Dialogs Between Death and Life September 20, 2013 -
4 - 21Fly! Epsilon September 27, 2013 -
4 - 22Yoshimoto: Summer Training Camp at the critical moment October 04, 2013 -
4 - 23Personal Glimpses at a 24-Hour Gym October 11, 2013 -
4 - 24The Game Center and the Prize Beyond the Prize October 18, 2013 -
4 - 25The Makeup Room October 25, 2013 -
4 - 26In Search of Hiroshima Taro November 01, 2013 -
4 - 27Hitchhiking in the Seto Inland Sea November 08, 2013 -
4 - 28The Call of the Dunes November 15, 2013 -
4 - 29A Giant Travel Agency: Destinations and Detours November 22, 2013 -
4 - 30The Post Office That Never Sleeps December 06, 2013 -
4 - 31Night Train to Izumo: Destination - Destiny December 13, 2013 -
4 - 32A Giant Bookstore: Wandering in a World of Words December 20, 2013