Video blogging and the formation of the political public opinion in Algeria -The podcast technique as a model-
Keywords:
Electronic media; podcast; public opinion; humor; political issues.Abstract
This study deals with the topic of video blogging and the formation of public opinion in Algeria though podcast technology, which has become one of the audio visual communication technique on the youtube website to express various political issues of concern to the public and thus reach the formation of public opinion about these issues by analyzing its videos qualitatively based on the descriptive approach, the content analysis tool and the intentional method in selecting the searched vocabulary. the study has reached conclusion that reveal the use of humorous podcast for most direct talk and language as it targets’ all community layers in addition to considering it a space for discussion and formation of public in Algeria towards political issues focusing on the negative trend in treatment.