Thank you to the creators of the YouTube videos that this webtext analyzes.
Thank you to Mary Glavan, my writing partner. Thank you to Cheryl Ball, David
Rieder, Madeleine Sorapure, Doug Eyman, and the other participants in KairosCamp
2017 who encouraged me early in this project. Thank you to my father-in-law
Bob Phelps for a stimulating conversation that inspired the conclusion. Thank
you to Leanne Younger and Robert Englebretson for discussing alternatives to
identity "blindness." Thank you to students in Mary P. Sheridan's Spring 2019
Digital Storytelling class for roadtesting this webtext, as well as to Nathan
Van Patter and Declan Barnes for giving valuable feedback. Thank you to
reviewers Lucy Johnson and Jennifer Carter for helpful Tier 1 suggestions, and
to Kristine Blair, Jim Rodolfo, and Peter Sands for helpful Tier 2
suggestions.
References
YouTube Videos referenced
The project analyzes a corpus of 25 YouTube videos (plus another set of 10, part of a series). They're fun to watch! View counts are reported from corpus
collection in July 2017. Note that links to the copyright-precarious videos (marked "precarious") are particularly fragile and may be dead for readers:
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