Thomas Mosebo Simonsen

Dr. Thomas Mosebo Simonsen is an assistant professor at the Department of Communication at Aalborg University (Denmark). His research interests lie in communication and media sciences, with a specific focus on digital media from a media/sociological perspective, which he explored in his dissertation, Identity-formation on YouTube: Investigating audiovisual presentations of the self (2012), an empirical study of online identity creation in YouTube content. He has a background in film and documentary studies and conducts research on Japanese film as well as research on reality television and the production of documentaries. His publications include “Categorising YouTube” in Mediekultur (Vol. 27, No. 51, 2011) and “The Mashups of YouTube” in Nordicom Review (Vol. 34, No. 2, 2013).

Publications

The Functionality of Paratexts on YouTube
The Functionality of Paratexts on YouTube
Thomas Mosebo Simonsen. © 2014. 26 pages.
This chapter investigates paratexts and their functionality on YouTube. It is argued that YouTube content is in fact characterized by its dependence and usage of paratexts as...