Social Networking on YouTube
I'm not going to go terribly in depth here. I just wanted to draw attention to this article from the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication which explores how YouTube is used as a social networking site.
The analysis reveals how circulating and sharing videos reflects different social relationships among youth. It also identifies varying degrees of “publicness” in video sharing.
Another interesting facet of this article to me was the 'Background' sections in which the author, Patricia Lange, examines the definition of social networks. The term has become so commonplace to many of us that we don't often consider what it actually means. Because it takes on such a broad definition, the choice becomes that of the user (of YouTube) whether or not YouTube is in fact a social network, an infrequent resource, internet hangout, or just another website.
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