{"id":5275,"date":"2025-04-24T11:24:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5275"},"modified":"2025-04-24T11:24:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:24:38","slug":"the-networked-educator-building-knowledge-communities-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5275\/the-networked-educator-building-knowledge-communities-on-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"The Networked Educator: Building Knowledge Communities on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Banner-1-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft autoexcerpt_thumb  wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/>\nIntroduction\n\n\n\nThis paper explores how the social media platform, YouTube empowers online educators by creating learning communities and democratising access to technical knowledge, through participatory content creation, algorithm-driven discoverability and collaborative audience interaction. This aligns with the Social Media, Communities and Networks steam, as it examines new forms of community engagement. As of February 2025, YouTube is the second most popular social media platform in the world, <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5275\/the-networked-educator-building-knowledge-communities-on-youtube\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction This paper explores how the social media platform, YouTube empowers online educators by creating learning communities and democratising access to technical knowledge, through participatory content creation, algorithm-driven discoverability and collaborative audience interaction. This aligns with the Social Media, Communities and Networks steam, as it examines new forms of community engagement. As of February 2025, YouTube is the second most popular social media platform in the world, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":5287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1298,1401,1310,1400],"class_list":["post-5275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-csm","tag-community","tag-education","tag-social-media","tag-youtube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5275"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5293,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275\/revisions\/5293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}