The Lizzie Bennet Diaries: Part One

What if Pride and Prejudice was set in the 2010s, where Lizzie Bennet studied communications and vlogged her daily life? What if she reenacted her life with props and costumes? What if it is one of the best depictions of the Bennet sister relationships on screen?

Melinda and Stefanie discuss how iconic YouTube was in 2012, the birth of social media and transmedia storytelling and amazing character writing in the first episode on The Lizzie Bennet Diaries.

Links & Mentions

You can watch The Lizzie Bennet Diaries here.

The book that Stefanie mentions about internet history is called Extremely Online by Taylor Lorenz.

If you would like to catch up with some of the actors from The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, you can see Ashley Clements's YouTube channel here, and the specific link to her Look Back Diaries project. Mary Kate Wiles has her YouTube channel and is part of a group called Shipwrecked Comedy who produces literary and historical comedy. And Daniel Vincent Gordh has a YouTube channel as well. You can also see Hank Green talk about the project on a vlog for the first time in this video (from the 37 second mark).

If you need a Crash Course (lol another Green brothers reference) in the state of the Internet in 2012, relive the fever dream that is Psy's Gangham Style; learn the Dumb Ways to Die around trains in Melbourne; dance the Harlem Shake; meet the cat, the myth, the legend Grumpy Cat; ask What Does the Fox Say with Ylvis and ponder if Taylor Swift sounds like a man screaming like a goat. You can also learn more about the history of YouTube thanks to this BBC podcast released to celebrate the 20th anniversary of YouTube in 2025.

Learn more about the history of VidCon; and watch an ad for home goods store Bing Lee that explains why some Australians found Bing's name very funny.

And if you want a deep dive into transmedia storytelling and LBD, you can check out Jay Bushman's website.

If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words. 

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