The roles of YouTube videos and YouTubers for getting information about political and
societal topics are becoming gradually more important to young people. Quantitative …

This article investigates the extent to which young people are able to comprehend the
political messages contained in satirical videos that circulate online. We do so through an …

Young media users increasingly engage with public affairs via social media such as
YouTube, where content is increasingly produced by influencers who neither represent …

In 2008, US Internet users watched 14 billion videos on YouTube. During the 2008
presidential campaign, voters rated watching YouTube political videos as one of the top …

Nowadays, teenagers are raised in an era of smartphones and do not remember a time
before social media. Most teenagers are active on social media starting at the age of 10 …

This study focuses on the relationship between preadolescents and youtubers, with the
objective of observing how tweens integrate youtubers as referents of a teen digital culture …

Although it is under-studied relative to other social media platforms, YouTube is arguably the
largest and most engaging online media consumption platform in the world. Recently …

Youtube is the most used social network in the United States. However, for a combination of
sociological and technical reasons, there exist little quantitative social science research on …

YouTube is the preferred online platform for today's teenagers. As such, this article explores
the relationship between socialization processes in adolescent peer culture and the …

Social networking sites are a new ecosystem of social relations in which adolescents follow
public figures or influencers: instagrammers, tweeters and youtubers. Their behaviour in the …