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What is YouTube

Managing Diversity, Innovation, and Infrastructure in Digital Business
The world's most popular online video community, where millions of people can discover, watch, and share originally created videos. YouTube was founded in 2005.
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Firm's Competitive Growth in the Social Media Age
Nermeen Atef Ahmed Hegazy (Cairo University, Egypt)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5993-1.ch001
Abstract
Social media has changed not only people's lives but also business's life. The internet has transformed the way companies do their business. Most companies create an entire business function commonly referred to e-business, which is the use of internet and information technology in a company's operations. Social media is not only a communication tool for entertainment. It is also an important part of marketing strategies in firm's business life. Therefore, firms can use social media as a strategic marketing tool to help firms gain a competitive advantage, so social media and social media marketing are gaining importance all over the world, especially from marketers and researchers in order to understand how social media works and to understand its techniques.
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Professional Development in the Twenty-First Century: YouTube Teacher Training and Professional Development
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University Faculty and Student Use of Social Media in Higher Education
Video hosting service, interactive content community featuring video and other related contributions from users.
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Teacher Curatorship: Fostering Literacies With Kindergartners Using YouTube Videos
A video streaming website, now owned by Google, in which users can upload and/or watch videos created both by amateurs and by professional corporations.
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Fostering (Digital) Media Literacy Skills and Global Citizenship in the EFL Classroom: Digital Stories of Undocumented Youth
A video-sharing platform created in 2006 that has recently increased its options for user-generated content, allowing them to use the platform as a network where users may not only view but also comment on, rate, and share videos in addition to uploading their own, self-made videos. With regard to media literacy skills, YouTube is an important channel for publication of amateur videos and hence increases the means of digital participation in the national and global society.
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A Critical Cultural Reading of
YouTube is a video sharing Website where users can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees and contains a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging and short original videos. In 2006, Google Inc. acquired the company.(source: Wikipedia).
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Video Lectures in eLearning
(a) Online platform publicly available to host video recordings from any source. (b) The company that owns the platform.
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The YouTubification of Politics, Impoliteness and Polarization
started as a video sharing website on which users can upload and share video clips and view them. More recently, it has been become a social interaction platform and a locus for political debate.
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Virtual Communities: Towards an Extended Typology
The social media platform used for video sharing on the web.
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Using YouTube in Political Persuasion: 2019 South African Elections
The US-based company was founded in 2005. Youtube is currently broadcasting in hundreds of countries. One of these countries is the Republic of South Africa. The general logic of this social media platform is to create and share video content.
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Postgraduate Student Experiences of Using YouTube as a Research Tool for Learning: A Case Study
A video-sharing software technology used to upload and/or watch various video content.
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Social Media Advertising: A Dimensional Change Creator in Consumer Purchase Intention
YouTube means Users can publish, view, and share videos on the well-known social networking website and video-sharing platform. Having been founded in February of 2005, it is currently among the most popular websites on the internet.
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New Literacies in New Times: A Multimodal Approach to Literacy Learning
A Web 2.0 tool, funded in 2005, which provides video-sharing, social networking service (http://www.youtube.com).
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Political Campaigning by Super PACs in the Computer Age
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Harnessing Social Media to Improve Educational Performance of Adolescent Freshmen in Universities
Is a social media platform for seamless sharing of video hosted by Google.
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