This article addresses issues of user precarity and vulnerability in online social networks. As
social media criticism by Jose van Dijck, Felix Stalder, and Geert Lovink describes, the …

Until someone writes the book, it sometimes does not occur to the rest of us that some small
aspect of a broad topic is worthy of academic research. Jean Burgess and Joshua Green are …

Among many other video genres, YouTube is a hub for “how‐to” videos, including advice on
how to work through difficult life circumstances. For this pilot study, we investigated a sample …

In our increasingly visually oriented world, people's information practices shift and adapt
accordingly. In this panel, we bring together an international group of scholars to discuss …

This thesis explores how the merging of ubiquitous consumer electronics and the sociable
web improve the user experience of these devices, increase the functionality of both, and …

This panel uses a range of sites and populations to investigate anti-social practices around
and within the community spaces of the Web. We focus on how the cultural common sense …

Video is increasingly pervasive on social media, with platform operators and social media
agencies acting in competition and cooperation with traditional television industries. In such …

Starting out in 2005 as a website for uploading and sharing amateur video productions,
YouTube has grown into a global digital media platform. According to the Web traffic …

This article explores how audience data are utilized in the tentative partnerships created
between television and social media companies. Specially, it looks at the mutually beneficial …

As one of the first social media franchises, Lonelygirl15 (LG15) played a surprisingly
important role in transforming YouTube into a legitimate storytelling platform and a site of …