Hi Alex, I have a paper coming out on the coments posted on YouTube in response to political videos. Blitvich, Pilar G. (2010). The "YouTubification" of Politics, impoliteness and polariztion" In Rotimi Taiwo (Ed.) Handbook of research on discourse behavior and digital communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. And another paper, which is currently under review, on the responses, also posted on YouTube, to the Obama Regaeton video Lorenzo-Dus, N., Blitvich , P. G.. & Bou-Franch, P. (under consideration). On-line polylogues and impoliteness: The case of postings sent in response to the Obama Reggaeton YouTube video. Best, Pilar Garces Blitvich ----- Original Message ---- From: "air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Sent: Sun, March 7, 2010 6:00:25 PM Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 68, Issue 7 Send Air-L mailing list submissions to air-l@listserv.aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-owner@listserv.aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Previous Research on YouTube Comments? (Alex Leavitt) 2. Re: Previous Research on YouTube Comments? (Lotte Belice) 3. Re: Previous Research on YouTube Comments? (Stuart Shulman) 4. Re: Previous Research on YouTube Comments? (Caroline Haythornthwaite) 5. Re: Previous Research on YouTube Comments? (Patricia Lange) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 20:26:44 -0500 From: Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt@gmail.com> To: aoir list <air-l@aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Previous Research on YouTube Comments? Message-ID: <767eb04e1003061726m75e53584tcaf936da05223952@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To anyone that can provide sources, I am looking for any previous work analyzing the YouTube commenting system, or research on comments in a similar online space where the commenting system is not the primary function of the space (eg., how YouTube is videos
comments). Any help is appreciated!
Thanks, Alex --- Alexander Leavitt Research Specialist, Convergence Culture Consortium Comparative Media Studies, MIT http://doalchemy.org Twitter: @alexleavitt ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 23:52:55 -0800 (PST) From: Lotte Belice <lottebelice@yahoo.com> To: Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt@gmail.com>, air-l@aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Previous Research on YouTube Comments? Message-ID: <641148.67678.qm@web51306.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Dear Alex, I know of a couple: - Tubers Talk: Examining the Comments on Presidential YouTube Videos Using Dialogic Theory by Kristin Nicole English. - Exploring the Gender Divide on YouTube: An Analysis of the Creation and Reception of Vlogs by Heather Molyneaux, Susan O?Donnell, Kerri Gibson and Janice Singer - And of course xkcd has made brilliant comics about YouTube commenters. Here are two examples: 1, 2. Good luck! Best, Lotte Belice Baltussen --- On Sun, 3/7/10, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt@gmail.com> wrote: From: Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt@gmail.com> Subject: [Air-L] Previous Research on YouTube Comments? To: "aoir list" <air-l@aoir.org> Date: Sunday, March 7, 2010, 2:26 AM To anyone that can provide sources, I am looking for any previous work analyzing the YouTube commenting system, or research on comments in a similar online space where the commenting system is not the primary function of the space (eg., how YouTube is videos
comments). Any help is appreciated!
Thanks, Alex --- Alexander Leavitt Research Specialist, Convergence Culture Consortium Comparative Media Studies, MIT http://doalchemy.org Twitter: @alexleavitt _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 06:26:03 -0500 From: Stuart Shulman <stuart.shulman@gmail.com> To: Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt@gmail.com> Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Previous Research on YouTube Comments? Message-ID: <23baba201003070326x382ab883qfba2b6705c1ce021@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 At QDAP, in collaboration with personnel at the Smithsonian, we are using Context Miner (http://contextminer.com/index.php) to harvest comments about climate change videos on YouTube for classification classification using the Public Comment Analysis Toolkit (PCAT - http://pcat.qdap.net/). It turns out these two free software pieces work well together, but, we are having to make adaptations to better leverage the meta data in the manual annotation process. Decontextualized comments from YouTube are very tough to code without following a complete thread though start to finish. It seems, in this early stage of the research, that one must be fully immersed in the cross-references between commenters to make any sense of it at all. Do list members have thoughts on this? Our friends at the Smithsonian are interested in finding out what, if anything, contributes to a 'better' or 'worse' online discussion about the future of the earth. Should we ever expect serious deliberation in such a space? ~Stu On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt@gmail.com> wrote:
To anyone that can provide sources,
I am looking for any previous work analyzing the YouTube commenting system, or research on comments in a similar online space where the commenting system is not the primary function of the space (eg., how YouTube is videos
comments). Any help is appreciated!
Thanks, Alex
---
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-- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Massachusetts Amherst 200 Hicks Way Amherst, MA 01003 http://people.umass.edu/stu/ stu@polsci.umass.edu 413-545-5375 Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics http://www.jitp.net Director, QDAP-UMass http://www.umass.edu/qdap/ Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/ ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 09:03:42 -0600 (CST) From: Caroline Haythornthwaite <haythorn@illinois.edu> To: stuart.shulman@gmail.com, "Alex Leavitt" <alexleavitt@gmail.com> Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Previous Research on YouTube Comments? Message-ID: <20100307090342.CCY06742@expms1.cites.uiuc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To find out who is talking to whom in these comments, you might look at the work by Anatoliy Gruzd that derives the social networks from threaded conversations. His technique uses references within the text to do more than just follow sequences of posts. See, http://anatoliygruzd.com/home/?page_id=27 and/or http://textanalytics.net/ He recently presented at IR 10 on analyzing blog comments. /Caroline ---- Original message ----
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 06:26:03 -0500 From: Stuart Shulman <stuart.shulman@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Previous Research on YouTube Comments? To: Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt@gmail.com> Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org
At QDAP, in collaboration with personnel at the Smithsonian, we are using Context Miner (http://contextminer.com/index.php) to harvest comments about climate change videos on YouTube for classification classification using the Public Comment Analysis Toolkit (PCAT - http://pcat.qdap.net/).
It turns out these two free software pieces work well together, but, we are having to make adaptations to better leverage the meta data in the manual annotation process. Decontextualized comments from YouTube are very tough to code without following a complete thread though start to finish.
It seems, in this early stage of the research, that one must be fully immersed in the cross-references between commenters to make any sense of it at all.
Do list members have thoughts on this? Our friends at the Smithsonian are interested in finding out what, if anything, contributes to a 'better' or 'worse' online discussion about the future of the earth. Should we ever expect serious deliberation in such a space?
~Stu
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt@gmail.com> wrote:
To anyone that can provide sources,
I am looking for any previous work analyzing the YouTube commenting system, or research on comments in a similar online space where the commenting system is not the primary function of the space (eg., how YouTube is videos
comments). Any help is appreciated!
Thanks, Alex
---
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Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics http://www.jitp.net
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Caroline Haythornthwaite Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Institute of Education, University of London (2009-10) Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820 (haythorn@illinois.edu) ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 08:06:16 -0800 (PST) From: Patricia Lange <pglange@yahoo.com> To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Previous Research on YouTube Comments? Message-ID: <129772.70563.qm@web53706.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello, I have a qualitative piece on people's perceptions of different kinds of comments on YouTube. It is called "Commenting on Comments: Investigating Responses to Antagonism on YouTube" and can be found here: http://sfaapodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/update-apr-17-lange-sfaa-pap... There is also a piece in JCMC: Talking Text and Talking Back: "My BFF Jill" from Boob Tube to YouTube (p 1050-1079) Let us know what you find out! Patricia G. Lange Anthropologist Institute for Multimedia Literacy University of Southern California My website: patriciaglange.org ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ End of Air-L Digest, Vol 68, Issue 7 ************************************