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

Yazdan Mansourian

doi:10.29173/cais1191

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 language	English
Number of pages	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.29173/cais1191
Publication status	Published - 09 Jun 2021
Event	CAIS 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 2021 → 10 Jun 2021 Conference number: 49 https://www.cais2021.ca/

Conference

Conference	CAIS 2021
Abbreviated title	Northern Relations: Connecting the Unexpected and Overlooked to Information Science
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Edmonton
Period	07/06/21 → 10/06/21
Other	CAIS 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.
Internet address	https://www.cais2021.ca/

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

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