LIVE VIDEO: HOW DOES IT WORK?
“Not Every Part Of Your Life Needs To Be Public” Live streaming platforms bring events from all around the world to people’s computing devices. While live streams and Snapchat Live Stories offer popular but different experiences for viewing events, together they provide a window into how people use social media to remotely experience events today. Let me give you an example of how some people use live video. A Minnesota woman used Facebook Live to live stream the aftermath of a police officer shooting her boyfriend Philandro Castille. In August, a New Yorker’s Periscope stream of a man climbing Trump Tower using suction cups reached over 225,000 live viewers. These are just a few well-publicized events in 2016 that demonstrated the rise of live streaming as a tool for sharing exciting or contentious events. Both live streams and Snapchat Live Stories are engaging for viewers. However, people desire to view a future event via live streams more than Snapchat Live Stori...
