NickGeidner.com » youtube http://nickgeidner.com/blog The blog of an Assistant Professor of Journalism at The University of Tennessee Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:55:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 New Publication http://nickgeidner.com/blog/2012/01/new-publication/ http://nickgeidner.com/blog/2012/01/new-publication/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:30:55 +0000 Nick http://nickgeidner.com/blog/?p=752 The upcoming issue of New Media and Society will feature an article written by myself and a number of other Ohio State grads. The article, entitled The Political Use of YouTube in the 2008 election, was written with Ivan Dylko (University of New Mexico), Michael Beam (Washington State University) and Kristen Landreville (University of Wyoming) and is a content analysis of the most popular political videos on YouTube during the 2008 election cycle.

The goals of this study are to explore several claims about the democratizing potential of the Internet and to extend gatekeeping theory into user-generated content (UGC) domain. A quantitative content analysis of the most popular YouTube political news videos during the 2008 presidential election was conducted to investigate the degree to which nonelites were able to partake in mainstream public discourse. We found that elites dominated first and second filters (news sourcing and news production) in the flow of online news, while nonelites dominated the third filter (news distribution). These results suggest that an update to the traditional gatekeeping model is needed to reflect the realities of today’s user-driven communication environment.

I’ll post a link once it is available.

]]> http://nickgeidner.com/blog/2012/01/new-publication/feed/ 0 YouTube and Agenda Setting http://nickgeidner.com/blog/2009/03/youtube-and-agenda-setting/ http://nickgeidner.com/blog/2009/03/youtube-and-agenda-setting/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:26:24 +0000 Nick http://nickgeidner.com/blog/?p=306 Paper accepted for presentation at AEJMC:

The primary purpose of this study is to refine gatekeeping theory, by examining it in the new context of user-generated news content. Videos from YouTube were utilized as an approximation of user-generated content, due to YouTube’s leadership position in the online user-generated video streaming market. A quantitative systematic content analysis of the most popular YouTube political news videos during the months preceding the 2008 presidential election was conducted to investigate: (1) if YouTube effectively enabled non-elite groups to partake in the mainstream public discourse and (2) to what extent the traditional media dominate the most popular news content on YouTube. Results offer support to both Internet pessimists and optimists by showing that both elite and non-elite groups find a meaningful way to utilize the user-generated media environment. The fact that the non-elites are able to do so, however, is notable and has important implications for journalism and democracy.

Citation: Dylko, I., Landerville, K. D., Beam, M. A., & Geidner, N. W. (2009). Gatekeeping and YouTube: News Filters and the Intermedia Dynamic in the Age of User-Generated Content. Paper submitted to the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in Boston, Mass.

This paper was also in the top three for the Communication Technology Jung-Sook Lee Student Paper Competition.

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