High Impact Practices Student Showcase Spring 2025

Critical Reactions: A Look at Youtube's comment section
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Course Code
ENC
Course Number
1102
Faculty/Instructor
Professor Pamela Baker
Faculty/Instructor Email
pamela.baker@ucf.edu
Abstract, Summary, or Creative Statement
Like much of the world, I frequently visit the website Youtube for information and entertainment. Youtube has become the standard for video sharing and viewing, occupying a huge market share in the streaming player space. Youtube videos have several features users can interact with, one of those being comments. As I watch videos, I scroll down to see what others are saying. Comments are small pieces of text, often only a few words or sentences, that are written in reaction to a video. You can “like” a comment, and comments that get more likes appear higher on the list. I never comment on videos, and I wondered what caused others to contribute. I also wondered what effect the comment section had on the community of viewers in general. This is my research contribution.
Keywords
Youtube; Comments; Critical Interface Analysis; Algorithm
Recommended Citation
Buffington, Levi T., "Critical Reactions: A Look at Youtube's comment section" (2025). High Impact Practices Student Showcase Spring 2025. 27.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/hip-2025spring/27
