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PHP & MySQL: Server-side Web Development
ISBN: 978-1-119-14921-7
April 2022
672 pages
Around the early 2010s, a new wave of creators began using the medium to share short skits, music videos, and comedy clips. This was the birth of "viral entertainment" in Assam. The cell phone camera, once a tool for invasion of privacy, became a democratized film studio.
| Feature | Traditional Popular Media (Film/TV) | MMS Entertainment Content | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | High (Lakhs of rupees) | Negligible (Smartphone & data) | | Gatekeepers | Censor Board, Producers, Studio heads | None (Peer-to-peer sharing) | | Aesthetics | High-angle shots, editing, lighting | Vertical video, raw cuts, diegetic sound | | Temporality | Scheduled release | Instantaneous, ephemeral | | Language Purity | Standardized Assamese (S.X.) | Dialectal, code-switched, slang | | Consent Model | Contractual & explicit | Often ambiguous or absent | Video Title- Assamese girl viral MMS xxx video ...
Enter the smartphone. The democratization of production meant that any college student in Guwahati with a decent Android phone and a YouTube channel could become a content creator. This led to the explosion of that directly compete for the "MMS entertainment" keyword space. Around the early 2010s, a new wave of