Apologies for cross-posting. I'm currently working on a collaboration with Joshua Green from the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT. To put it very briefly, we¹re designing a large-scale content analysis of YouTube, with the rather ambitious long-term aim of mapping the emergent genre system of the network. As part of our planning and early publications, we'd obviously like to be in dialogue with what¹s already being done in this area. Unsurprisingly, a pretty extensive database/web search has turned up very little substantial published research on YouTube per se (as opposed to, say, youth or informal learning, with YouTube as an example). But we're aware of the fact that there is likely to be a lot of research underway that we don't know about yet. If anyone is doing similar or even slightly related empirical research on YouTube, has publications forthcoming, or knows of current projects in the area, I'd appreciate any information you might be able to make available. Please reply either on-list or to je.burgess@qut.edu.au Regards Jean -- Jean Burgess Postdoctoral Research Fellow ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (cci) Queensland University of Technology Blogs: http://creativitymachine.net http://propagatingmedia.com Reviews editor, International Journal of Cultural Studies http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=196 ISSN: 1367-8779 P: +61 7 3138 8253 | F: +61 7 3138 3723 | M: 0401 733755