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Original Article
Social Interaction in YouTube Text-Based Polylogues: A Study of Coherence
Article first published online: 9 JUL 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2012.01579.x
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How to Cite
Bou-Franch, P., Lorenzo-Dus, N. and Blitvich, P. G.-C. (2012), Social Interaction in YouTube Text-Based Polylogues: A Study of Coherence. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 17: 501–521. doi: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2012.01579.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 9 JUL 2012
- Article first published online: 9 JUL 2012
- Manuscript Accepted: 28 MAY 2012
- Manuscript Revised: 13 MAY 2012
- Manuscript Received: 7 FEB 2012
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Keywords:
- coherence;
- computer mediated communication;
- conversation;
- YouTube
Since YouTube was launched, its emblematic video-sharing facility has attracted considerable attention as a social networking system of cultural production. In addition to vlogging, YouTube offers a text facility through which YouTubers share and negotiate opinions. However, research into the latter is scarce, especially within language-based disciplines (Androutsopoulos & Beiβwenger 2009; Zelenkauskaite & Herring 2008). This article contributes to addressing this imbalance by focusing on YouTube text-based ‘conversation’ (Herring 2010a). Specifically, it examines coherence in a corpus of YouTube postings in Spanish. Although coherence has been the object of much academic debate in other forms of computer-mediated communication, no empirical analysis of coherence in YouTube text has been undertaken to date. Results underline the conversational potential of this facility.