Title
"Do It For The Viewers!" Audience Engagement Behaviors Of Young Youtubers
Abstract
Online user-generated video sharing communities, such as YouTube, are becoming more popular than conventional studio-produced content. These communities provide every user with the opportunity to create and promote their own video content-a compelling venue for children and teenagers to share their stories and voices. In this study, we investigate the practices of youth video creators on YouTube. To do so, we conducted a content analysis of the audience engagement practices of 100 youth author channels, comparing them to adult and professional YouTubers when appropriate. We found that most youth authors are aware of and actively engage with their imaginary or real audiences on YouTube. They emulate the conversational and audience engagement practices seen in professional quality YouTube channels, but may not have the video editing or other meta-content skills or experience to do so. Based on our findings, we point to a number of implications for future research and design in this space.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2930674.2930676
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERACTION DESIGN AND CHILDREN (IDC2016)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Children, teenagers, online video, YouTube, authorship
Content analysis,Internet privacy,Computer science,The Imaginary,Video editing,Video sharing,Online video,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
25
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sarah McRoberts1122.37
Elizabeth Bonsignore224026.41
Tamara Peyton3566.47
Svetlana Yarosh445042.69