[Air-L] Classifying YouTube Videos

[Kathie Gossett]

You might want to try tracking down Julie Jones. She was a grad  
student at Univ. of Minnesota and her dissertation was about YouTube.  
She did extensive work on building a classification system and coding  
it. She was a candidate for one of our jobs last year but turned it  
down, so I'm not sure where she ended up. The email I had for her was: jone0882 at umn.edu 
.

Good luck,
Kathie
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Dr. Kathie Gossett
Asst. Professor of Rhetoric and New Media
Department of English
Old Dominion University

Phone: (757) 683-5818
Email: kgossett at odu.edu
Web: www.kathiegossett.com


On Sep 29, 2008, at 0:50 , Dominic Yeo wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm doing a study of motivations of users in viewing YouTube videos
> and I'll be constructing a questionnaire that measures users'
> preferences of the different types of videos on YouTube (among other
> things). I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestion on how to classify
> the videos on YouTube (or better yet any published papers that adopt a
> classification system of YouTube videos). Obviously one
> straightforward way is to adopt the exact same classification that
> already exists on YouTube (Autos & Vehicles, Comedy, Education,
> Entertainment, Film & Animation, Gaming, Howto & Style, Music, News &
> Politics, People & Blogs, Pets & Animals, Science & Technology,
> Sports, Travel & Events) but I feel they do not provide sufficient
> differentiation especially in the area of user-generated videos.
>
> Best regards,
> Dominic
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