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- Feb 2025
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But it is YouTube’scomplex economic allegiances that compel it to both play host to amateur video cultureand provide content owners the tools to criminalize it.
I learned that YouTube must balance between supporting user-generated content and protecting corporate interests.
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‘Videos that are considered sexually suggestive, or that contain profanity, will bealgorithmically demoted on our “Most Viewed”, “Top Favorited”, and other browsepages’ (YouTube, 2008a).
Something I learned was, based on what content is in a video that it can be demoted on things like "Most viewed" and "Top Favorited." I did not know that based on certain content in a video that it could alter or change the popularity of it or how often it can be looked at/seen.
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All four of these semantic areas are relevant to why ‘platform’ has emerged in referenceto online content-hosting intermediaries and, just as important, what value both its speci-ficity and its flexibility offer them.
This is something new I learned because I was not aware that the term platform had these different meanings behind them. The four semantic areas are: computational, architectural, figurative, and political. All of these categories make up how the term platform came to be and what it truly means.
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