In preparation for the conference, I thought it might be a good idea to start to put together a working bibliography of research related to politics and YouTube. I know I have had a hard time locating research on YouTube so I hope that collectively we can identify what has already been done (and, in doing so, identify what needs to be done). Below is a list of the small number of articles I have been able to find. Know of anything else?

Caldwell, Ingrid. 2008. "Terror on YouTube: the Internet's most popular sites are becoming tools for terrorist recruitment." The Forensic Examiner. 17.3 (Fall 2008): p80(4).

Cha, M., Kwak, H., Rodriguez, P., Ahn, Y., & Moon, S. 2007. "I Tube, You Tube, Everybody Tubes: Analyzing the World's Largest User Generated Content Video System." In Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Internet Measurement (pp. 1-14). San Diego, California, USA: ACM.

Gueorguieva, Vassia. 2008. “Voters, MySpace and YouTube. The Impact of Alternative Communication Channels on the 2006 Election Cycle and Beyond." Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 26, No. 3, 288-300. DOI: 10.1177/0894439307305636

Heldman, Caroline. 2007. "YouTube Nation." Downloaded on July 6, 2008 from http://www.apsanet.org/~Iss/Newsletter/jan07/Heldman.pdf.

Lange, Patricia. 2007. "Publicly Private and Privately Public: Social Networking on YouTube. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol 13, No. 1, 361-380. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117979383/abstract

Shah, Chirag and Marchionini, Gary. Preserving 2008 US Presidential Election Videos. In the Proceedings of International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW) 2007.

Capra, Robert, Lee, Christopher A., Marchionini, Gary, Russell, Terrell, Shah, Chirag, and Stutzman, Fred. Selection and Context Scoping for Digital Video Collections: An Investigation of YouTube and Blogs. In the proceedings of JCDL 2008.

Marchionini, Gary, Shah, Chirag, Lee, Christopher A., Capra, Robert. Query Parameters for Harvesting Digital Video and Associated Contextual Information. To appear at JCDL 2009. June 15-19, 2009. Austin, Texas.

Siddiqui, Shereen. 2008. "YouTube and feminism: a class action project." Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources, 29.1 (Winter 2008): p24(2).

Tryon, Chuck.  2007.  "'Why 2008 Won't Be Like 1984:' Viral Videos and Presidential Politics."  Flow TV Vol. 5  No.10.  http://flowtv.org/?p=143

----. 2008. "Viral Videos and the Election." Word of Mouth.  New Hampshire Public Radio. Interviewee. http://www.nhpr.org/node/18035

Wallsten, Kevin. 2008. "Yes We Can": How Online Viewership, Blog Discussion and Mainstream Media Coverage Produced a Viral Video Phenomenon".  Paper presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA.

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