“Hide, stay still and listen carefully”: Birdwatchers’ information seeking and sharing on YouTube

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Abstract

This paper presents early findings of an ongoing investigation about information seeking and sharing patterns among birdwatched on YouTube. The research aims to find out how they seek and share hobby-related information and to what extent publicly available multimedia resources on YouTube can satisfy their information needs. The researcher analysed 1988 comments from a sample of the most visited birdwatching videos to identify the patterns based on the user-generated contents to address the questions. The findings show birdwatching is a very information-rich context, and birdwatchers are involved in various information activities to pursue their hobbies.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages3
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Publication statusPublished - 09 Jun 2021
EventCAIS 2021: 49th annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science/ l’Association canadienne des sciences de l’information (CAIS/ACSI) - The University of Alberta (online), Edmonton, Canada
Duration: 07 Jun 202110 Jun 2021
Conference number: 49
https://www.cais2021.ca/

Conference

ConferenceCAIS 2021
Abbreviated titleNorthern Relations: Connecting the Unexpected and Overlooked to Information Science
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityEdmonton
Period07/06/2110/06/21
OtherCAIS 2021 is the 49th annual conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science/ l’Association canadienne des sciences de l’information (CAIS/ACSI), hosted online by the University of Alberta, June 7 – 10, 2021.
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