<videovortex> Research on YouTube Comments (fwd.)

Geert Lovink geert at xs4all.nl
Tue Mar 9 16:18:17 CET 2010 

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>   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)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 20:26:44 -0500
> From: Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt at gmail.com>
> To: aoir list <air-l at aoir.org>
> Subject: [Air-L] Previous Research on YouTube Comments?
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> 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 at yahoo.com>
> To: Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt at gmail.com>, air-l at aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Previous Research on YouTube Comments?
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> 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Alex Leavitt
> <alexleavitt at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Air-L] Previous Research on YouTube Comments?
> To: "aoir list" <air-l at 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
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> ------------------------------
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 06:26:03 -0500
> From: Stuart Shulman <stuart.shulman at gmail.com>
> To: Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt at gmail.com>
> Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Previous Research on YouTube Comments?
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> 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 at 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
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Alexander Leavitt
>> Research Specialist, Convergence Culture Consortium
>> Comparative Media Studies, MIT
>> http://doalchemy.org
>> Twitter: @alexleavitt
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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 at 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 at illinois.edu>
> To: stuart.shulman at gmail.com, "Alex Leavitt" <alexleavitt at gmail.com>
> Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Previous Research on YouTube Comments?
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> 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 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Previous Research on YouTube Comments?
>> To: Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt at gmail.com>
>> Cc: air-l at 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 at 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
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Alexander Leavitt
>>> Research Specialist, Convergence Culture Consortium
>>> Comparative Media Studies, MIT
>>> http://doalchemy.org
>>> Twitter: @alexleavitt
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
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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 at 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/
>> _______________________________________________
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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 at illinois.edu)
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 08:06:16 -0800 (PST)
> From: Patricia Lange <pglange at yahoo.com>
> To: air-l at aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Previous Research on YouTube Comments?
> Message-ID: <129772.70563.qm at web53706.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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> 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-paper-2007.pdf
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
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