This blog documents resources compiled by Dr. Strangelove:
University of Toronto Press, April 2010
The New Findings (Blog) section provides daily updates of statistics, news, industry reports, and scholarly articles on YouTube and online video.
The world’s largest YouTube Bibliography is both a free document and a database of over 324 academic articles. This bibliographic database can be searched via subject and author indexes.
Three ways to stay informed of new research:
What can you do to help?
If your research is not documented in the index, please send bibliographic details to Dr. Strangelove.
How does all this work?
When a significant academic article or book about YouTube or online video is discovered it is posted to the Watching YouTube blog. Once posted a notice is automatically sent via Twitter, RSS feed, and e-mail. At irregular intervals all new bibliographic findings are added to the YouTube Bibliography.
This is all done via an open source Wordpress blog which uses the highly flexible Atahualpa theme and a variety of applications called widgets. The YouTube Bibliography Project is also part of the Creative Commons. Tres cool n’est-ce pas?
Who is Dr. Strangelove?
Michael Strangelove is an adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa’s Department of Communication, where he has taught media courses for the past ten years.
In 1991 Strangelove co-authored the Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists with Diane Kovacs for the Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing, Association of Research Libraries. In 1994 he wrote the first book on online advertising, How to Advertise on the Internet: An Introduction to Internet-facilitated Advertising and Marketing. In 2005 Dr. Strangelove returned to the subject of the Internet with the book The Empire of Mind: Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement.
Dr. Strangelove’s next book, Watching YouTube: Extraordinary Videos by Ordinary People will be published by the University of Toronto Press in April 2010.
About that Doll
It is just some digital art by Dr. Strangelove.
What does it mean?
You decide.
Some Site Statistics
According to Google Analytics, in 2009 there have been over 38,128 ‘Absolute Unique Visitors’ to the Watching Youtube blog, with an average of 142 vistors per day who viewed an average of three pages per visit,
135,099 page views,
and over 4,596 views of the YouTube Bibliography.