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How to Study Shadow Curators? Biases in the YouTube Algorithm

How to Study Shadow Curators? Biases in the YouTube Algorithm

It is getting harder to pinpoint the interferences when it comes to our experience in digital media. We are constantly living under the flood of content the internet has to offer, never really realizing that our choices are being...
By on 10/04/21 Comments Off on How to Study Shadow Curators? Biases in the YouTube Algorithm
The Targeted Search for Screwing Around

The Targeted Search for Screwing Around

Do you ever feel like there is just too much to read? Outsource the reading so you can watch someone's exasperated rant about an obscure rabbit hole you never would have heard about otherwise.
By on 10/04/21 Comments Off on The Targeted Search for Screwing Around

Searching vs. Browsing on YouTube

Abstract: In Stephen Ramsay’s essay entitled “The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around; or What You Do with a Million Books” he expounds on the difference between searching and browsing when completing research while simultaneously arguing that browsing-only research can eventually...
By on 10/03/21 Comments Off on Searching vs. Browsing on YouTube
Curing your smartphone addiction: There’s an app for that

Curing your smartphone addiction: There’s an app for that

Two hours forty-five minutes is the average time per day I spent on my Google Pixel 2 XL smartphone for the past 30 days. The question here is, do you know exactly how long have you spent on your...
By Thienthai Sangkhaphanthanon on 09/24/18 Comments Off on Curing your smartphone addiction: There’s an app for that
A Streamlined Explanation: The Problem with Streaming Games on YouTube

A Streamlined Explanation: The Problem with Streaming Games on YouTube

Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg is one of the most popular video game streamers on YouTube with more than 57 million subscribers (Orland, 2017). Because of a racial slur uttered in one of his recent Let’s Play videos, PewDiePie faced a...
By Ayse B. Tosun on 10/25/17 Comments Off on A Streamlined Explanation: The Problem with Streaming Games on YouTube
Growing up on YouTube – How family vloggers are establishing their children’s digital footprints for them

Growing up on YouTube – How family vloggers are establishing their children’s digital footprints for them

The internet knows what you shared on Facebook last week. It sees what video you posted on YouTube. It even knows you’re reading this blog post right now. Every action you make online creates a trail of data or...
By Frederike Lichtenstein on 10/23/17 Comments Off on Growing up on YouTube – How family vloggers are establishing their children’s digital footprints for them
Giving MLM’s a Makeover: Are Beauty Gurus Legitimizing LipSense?

Giving MLM’s a Makeover: Are Beauty Gurus Legitimizing LipSense?

YouTube influencers have become increasingly important to businesses in the last few years. Viewers are turning to them to know what’s hot and what’s not. But, “with great power comes great responsibility” and online influencers should take this into...
By Nicole Leeflang on 09/24/17 Comments Off on Giving MLM’s a Makeover: Are Beauty Gurus Legitimizing LipSense?
Is Apple our Online-Privacy Vigilante?

Is Apple our Online-Privacy Vigilante?

Abstract: Apple purports that its new Intelligent Tracking Prevention Technology integrated in Safari browser prevents 3rd-party cookies from collecting users’ data, therefore, reducing online ads, and ultimately protecting users’ privacy. This paper challenges this by arguing that ITP’s functionality...
By K. Abdulghani on 09/24/17 Comments Off on Is Apple our Online-Privacy Vigilante?
Is Vidme the ‘NewTube’? Why video creators are changing sides and how they feel about it

Is Vidme the ‘NewTube’? Why video creators are changing sides and how they feel about it

A few weeks ago on September 9, video platform Vidme’s own channel uploaded their weekly episode of ‘This Week @ Vidme’ titled ‘German INVASION’. The video refers to a sudden and significant increase of German led channels on Vidme:...
By Frederike Lichtenstein on 09/24/17 Comments Off on Is Vidme the ‘NewTube’? Why video creators are changing sides and how they feel about it
Decapitation? Here’s a wise old lady who knows better

Decapitation? Here’s a wise old lady who knows better

Changing the minds of IS-fighters-to-be while they are searching for IS-related material on YouTube sounds like a contradiction, but Google found a subtle way to do so. This month, Google’s think-tank Jigsaw is launching an unconventional project called the...
By Odiel vandeNobelen on 09/21/16 Comments Off on Decapitation? Here’s a wise old lady who knows better
Advertiser-friendly vs. Youtuber-friendly: who does YouTube really care about?

Advertiser-friendly vs. Youtuber-friendly: who does YouTube really care about?

In the Internet age, while some companies choose to be LGBT-friendly, eco-friendly or even vegan-friendly, YouTube is openly advertiser-friendly. The de facto standard video-hosting website of the western world has become a staple of our modern society – an...
By Pija Indriunaite on 09/20/16 Comments Off on Advertiser-friendly vs. Youtuber-friendly: who does YouTube really care about?

YouTube: From Video Sharing to Building a Community

What? Where? When? For some, YouTube is just a video sharing platform, but for others (such as PewDiePie, JennaMarbles, or Zoella – only to mention some of the famous YouTubers) it is actually a job. However, in order to...
By Bianca Andreea Banu on 09/19/16 Comments Off on YouTube: From Video Sharing to Building a Community