[Air-L] YouTube Conference: CFP reopened, additional keynote speakers confirmed

[Jean Burgess]

Sharing by request of the organisers:

Your last chance to submit a paper – the CFP is reopened now we have some new speakers to announce in addition to Jean Burgess who is giving an overview of YouTube and the broader online video environment have changed in the past decade, and what its competing futures look like, how we might learn to recognise such patterns of change empirically, and the key methodological approaches to studying the co-evolution of proprietary digital media platforms and their cultures of use over time.


Sonia Livingstone whose ethnographic fieldwork with a class of thirteen year olds at an ordinary London school explores young people's experiences of growing up and learning in a digital world - in school, at home, and with their friends. YouTube comes in and out of focus, varying in meaning and significance yet consistently insinuating itself into their everyday experiences of connected and disconnected learning and opportunity.

Farida Vis and Mike Thelwall will reflect on - via a number of different case studies - their collaboration over eight years of researching YouTube, including the development of tools for collecting YouTube data, and their continuing interest in YouTube research in the context of teaching social media analytics skills to students when a lot of current social media research focuses on Twitter.

Stuart Cunningham will be talking about changes in screen entertainment enabled by YouTube (amongst other social media platforms). His research with David Craig takes an ‘ecological’ approach by investigating the interdependencies amongst its elements: mapping the platform’s affordances, content innovation, creative labor, monetization and management, new forms of media globalization, and the critical cultural concerns raised by this nascent media industry.


CALL FOR PAPERS YouTube Conference: 23/24 September 2016, Middlesex University, The Burroughs, Hendon, London.

Follow link for details http://www.mdx.ac.uk/events/2016/09/youtube-conference-2016



Please send an abstract of 350 words plus a short bio of 100 words for single papers or 500 words and individual bios for group panels by email attachment to youtube at mdx.ac.uk<mailto:youtube at mdx.ac.uk>. Deadline for receipt of abstracts is May 3 2016.



Conference team: Professor Jane Arthurs, Dr Sophia Drakopoulou, Dr Alessandro Gandini, Dr Paul Kerr.

Supported by the Middlesex University’s School of Performing Arts and Media and the Research and Knowledge Exchange Office.