Cameo

The vehicle test procedure provides a strict guidance regarding the conditions of dynamometer tests and road load, gear shifting, total car weight, fuel quality, ambient temperature, and tire selection and pressure. Designed as a tool for testing vehicles fuel consumption and emission these tests are usually conducted on expensive and infrastructuraly demanding road dynamometers. This paper presents a method for conducting tests like NEDC or WLTC on an automated engine test bed equipped with high dynamic dynamometer in a manner which provides very similar testing environment. Particularly from the educational point of view, this approach, combining simple mathematical modelling, automated engine test bed and software testing and measurement environment like AVL Cameo, provides numerous possibilities in demonstrating engine operation in a virtual but, by performance, fully realized vehicle.

Cameo is part of a growing set of new media platforms trending toward direct routes for monetizing fame. Cameo allows fans to book personalized shout-out videos and provides celebrities-celetoids and reality stars in particular-access to new modes of income, which became increasingly important amid the pandemic. This research explores how the direct monetization of the fan-celebrity relationship is reshaping the power dynamic of these parasocial relationships. Using digital ventriloquism as an analytical lens to study reality stars (e.g. Real Housewives) on Cameo, this study introduces the concept of paid puppeteering on digital platforms, defined as a form of digital ventriloquism in which a celebrity's public persona is manipulated and incentivized through financial means on a paid digital platform for the illusion of close parasocial connections with fans. Paid puppeteering reinforces celebrities as gig workers as Cameo mitigates fan access to celebrities-for a fee.

Auf Basis der Signaturfunktion des Director-Cameos, wie er vornehmlich durch Alfred Hitchcock bekannt wurde, wird die bisweilen selbstreflexive und selbstinszenatorische Dimension dieser Auftritte erarbeitet. Anhand von Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese und David Cronenberg zeigt der Text die Schöpfergeste der Regisseure auf, die sich als aktiver Eingriff in das Werk und dessen Figuren offenbart.

Cameo is part of a growing set of new media platforms trending toward direct routes for monetizing fame. Cameo allows fans to book personalized shout-out videos and provides celebrities—celetoids and reality stars in particular—access to new modes of income, which became increasingly important amid the pandemic. This research explores how the direct monetization of the fan-celebrity relationship is re-shaping the power dynamic of these parasocial relationships. Using digital ventriloquism as an analytical lens to study reality stars (e.g. Real Housewives) on Cameo, this study introduces the concept of paid puppeteering on digital platforms, defined as a form of digital ventriloquism in which a celebrity’s public persona is manipulated and incentivized through financial means on a paid digital platform for the illusion of close parasocial connections with fans. Paid puppeteering reinforces celebrities as gig workers as Cameo mitigates fan access to celebrities—for a fee.