Arthurs, J.; Drakopoulou, S.; Gandini, A.

Researching YouTube

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Arthurs, J., Drakopoulou, S. and Gandini, A. 2018. Researching YouTube. Convergence. 24 (1), pp. 3-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856517737222

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Type	Article
Title	Researching YouTube
Authors	Arthurs, J., Drakopoulou, S. and Gandini, A.
Abstract	‘Researching YouTube’ introduces the special issue of Convergence which arose out of an international academic conference on YouTube that was held in London at Middlesex University in September 2016. The conference aimed to generate a robust overview of YouTube’s changing character and significance after its first ten years of development by creating a productive dialogue between speakers from different disciplines and cultures, and between YouTube-specific research and wider debates in media and social research on identity, aesthetics, politics, celebrity, production practices, business models, and research methods in digital culture. This introduction is structured around four themes that help to contextualise the papers that were selected from the many submitted for inclusion in the special issue and offers a substantial overview of the field of research: Participatory Culture and User-Generated Content; YouTube as a Hybrid Commercial Space; Vlogging and YouTube Celebrity; The ‘Mystery’ of the Algorithm and Digital Methods of Research.
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Journal	Convergence
ISSN	1354-8565
Electronic	1748-7382
Online	10 Jan 2018
Print	01 Feb 2018
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Deposited	09 Nov 2017
Accepted	08 Sep 2017
Output status	Published
Accepted author manuscript	Introduction%2C%20Final.pdf
Copyright Statement	Jane Arthurs, Sophia Drakopoulou and Alessandro Gandini, Introduction: Researching YouTube, Convergence, Vol 24, Issue 1, pp. 3-15. Copyright © 2017 (The Author(s)). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856517737222
Web of Science identifier	WOS:000419849900001
Language	English

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