What is YouTube

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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. Learn more in: Firm's Competitive Growth in the Social Media Age

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A social media platform designed for publishing and sharing videos. Learn more in: Professional Development in the Twenty-First Century: YouTube Teacher Training and Professional Development

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Video hosting service, interactive content community featuring video and other related contributions from users. Learn more in: University Faculty and Student Use of Social Media in Higher Education

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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. Learn more in: Teacher Curatorship: Fostering Literacies With Kindergartners Using YouTube Videos

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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. Learn more in: Fostering (Digital) Media Literacy Skills and Global Citizenship in the EFL Classroom: Digital Stories of Undocumented Youth

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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). Learn more in: A Critical Cultural Reading of "YouTube"

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(a) Online platform publicly available to host video recordings from any source. (b) The company that owns the platform. Learn more in: Video Lectures in eLearning

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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. Learn more in: The YouTubification of Politics, Impoliteness and Polarization

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The social media platform used for video sharing on the web. Learn more in: Virtual Communities: Towards an Extended Typology

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A Web 2.0 tool, funded in 2005, which provides video-sharing, social networking service (http://www.youtube.com). Learn more in: New Literacies in New Times: A Multimodal Approach to Literacy Learning

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A popular video sharing Website. Learn more in: Exploring the Role of Social Software in Higher Education

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Website for sharing video content. Learn more in: Political Campaigning by Super PACs in the Computer Age