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Social Media Research: YouTube

A guide to conducting scholarly research on social media.

Social Media

Social media encompasses a broad variety of websites, including social networking sites, blogs, wikis, photo sharing, social reading, and more.

Most of the sites on this page fall into more than one category, so it is important to keep that in mind when conducting research on social media.

YouTube

YouTube is a social video sharing site that allows users to upload and share their own videos, so long as they do not infringe copyright law.

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