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/