[Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 176, Issue 44

[Martin Zeilinger]

This piece by David Benqué and Betti Marenko might also be of interest (publication was just announced today):
https://figshare.com/articles/Speculative_diagrams_Experiments_in_mapping_Youtube/7855811 <https://figshare.com/articles/Speculative_diagrams_Experiments_in_mapping_Youtube/7855811>


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>   1. Re: Any research on/with YouTube API? (Steven Clift)
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> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 16:16:02 -0700
> From: Steven Clift <slc at publicus.net>
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> I thought I'd mention that I received some quite useful off list replies.
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> Now a new idea/offer ...
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> Would anyone here like to do some data analysis on comparative YouTube
> adoption by television news stations.
> 
> I am seeing some interesting trends that need some quantification:
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> 1. How many videos does a channel upload each day? (I have a growing list
> of channels.)
> - How has that changed over time?
> - How does usage compare over time?
> - Comparing say the top ten global video channels how do they use YouTube
> differently? Viewership trends.
> 
> I am particularly curious about why the BBC seems to put so little news
> video content on YouTube when produce so much? And why Scotland et al has
> so little BBC content shared with the wider world?
> 
> Comparing "external services," I'd love to see how France 24 compares to
> VOA, RT, CTGN, etc. There is a big story perhaps in how poorly the VOA is
> leveraging YouTube especially with live streaming opportunities.
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> 2. How do countries compare in terms of YouTube take up? India, Taiwan,
> Pakistan, and Latin America generally are on fire in terms of their use of
> YouTube for streaming live news video channels.
> 
> I'd love to see some analysis about this over time.
> 
> Anyway, I'd be glad to help share some of my growing data list on news
> channels on YouTube and ideas on what more to collect, analyze, and
> visualize. I'd love to crowd source more channel links with a multi-lingual
> group of grad students, etc.
> 
> Thanks,
> Steven Clift
> 
> P.S. People like the app - http://tvnewsapp.com - 4.7 rating, reached 500
> downloads quickly with little advertising, climbing the charts on Google
> Play for searches like "tv news" "news video" ... give them a try, search
> that then install http://play.google.com - I would guess just ten people
> searching that in a day and then selecting my app would bump the app up
> organically in search "ASO" as they called it.
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> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019, 9:48 PM Steven Clift <slc at publicus.net> wrote:
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>> So I stumbled into a developer who created one of those "floating" YouTube
>> music video players.
>> 
>> After six years of curating the original radio news "flash briefing," I
>> thought hey, why not try video.
>> 
>> Combining forces on Android (so far) we've come up with:
>> 
>>     http://tvnewsapp.com
>> 
>> So, here's the deal. The YouTube API is pretty darn interesting and I'd
>> love to connect with researchers who are experimenting with it.
>> 
>> I am interested in ways to better automate how to surface live news
>> streams. The app has scores of these. I never expected so many from so many
>> countries. Some countries clearly are all in with nearly all news channels
>> competing on Facebook while others while free on the web haven't joined the
>> YouTube club.
>> 
>> Anyway, get in touch if you've dug into the YouTube API. Heck perhaps we
>> can even collaborate.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Steven Clift
>> 
>> P.S. My 150K downloads radio news app: http://1radionews.com
>> 
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