#YouTube

Eugenia Cooney: Youtube's representative of disordered eating

Paper
Lara Hoffmann
08/12/2021
13 minutes to read

(Trigger warning: ED and anoxeria). Eugenia Cooney is a YouTuber whose content is highly associated with anorexia and eating disorders. How do Foucault's concepts of power and the dangerous individual apply to a 21st-century social media figure?

Dynamite Reaches 100 Million Views on YouTube

How the Kpop Community Uses YouTube’s Algorithm to Their Benefit

Article
Angela Veltman
15/01/2021
12 minutes to read

The mainstream media was surprised when BTS broke the record for most views in 24 hours on a video for their song Dynamite with 101 million views. This was the goal set to be achieved by BTS’ fandom. But how did they do this?

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Content Moderation on YouTube and its Effects on Users

Article
Elise Stegmann
11/01/2021
9 minutes to read

The effect of the YouTube Adpocalypse on how content is moderated on YouTube, and how content creators are negatively affected by these moderations

How ContraPoints commands the YouTube Stage

Article
Inge van de Ven
30/09/2019
11 minutes to read

Inge van de Ven examines YouTube vlogger ContraPoints as a public intellectual in the context of strategies of self-representation in the attention economy. 

Why we should all be (a little) #BOOS

Article
Mijke Akkermans
27/02/2019
6 minutes to read

How Tim Hofman's YouTube show #BOOS interacts with and challenges issues in the private sphere to improve the public sphere and the greater good.