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(2020)The purpose of this study is to find out how do Finnish children and adolescents portray their free time and school on their YouTube videos. Social media is nowadays a big part of life of almost every children and adolescent in Finland. Especially the video sharing site YouTube is really popular among younger generations. The level of school satisfaction is traditionally quite low in Finland, even though pupils generally regard school as an important part of their life. That’s why it is interesting to find out whether they bring out their school dissatisfaction also on their YouTube videos. I’m focusing mostly on the content of the videos, but I’ll also clarify, why do children and adolescents publish such videos they do and tell the things they tell in the videos. The research material consists of 10 diary-like vlog videos from 10 different vloggers, aged from 9 to 15. The videos were uploaded to YouTube during years 2016–2018. My method for data gathering was IRI-research (Investigative Research on the Internet) and I used content analysis to analyze the videos. After the analysis I then compared the findings to different surveys about children and adolescents’ free time and social media and internet usage. I also compared the findings to some studies about children and adolescents’ social relations. Vloggers researched in my study produce mostly basic diary-like description of their everyday life on YouTube. One interesting finding of this study was though that many of the videos included presentations of clothes and belongings. By showing their clothes and telling where they were bought from, the children and adolescents try to increase their social income and, in this way, improve their status among their peers. School was mentioned quite a lot in the videos. The children and adolescents talked for example about their schooldays, teachers, school supplies and also their feelings about school. School was mostly referred to either in a neutral or a negative way. Talking about school negatively can also be seen as a way of trying to improve status among peers, in a similar way as the presentation of clothes and belongings. In addition to information about children and adolescents’ free time and opinions about school, the results of this study give also further information about the meaning and role of social media as part of their social relations.
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(2016)The aim of this Master's thesis is to study the use of videos in education. The main focus is on teachers who produce their own videos. Due to the exponential growth of audio-visual communication in social media and the internet, today's youth consume videos more than ever. In many ways schools continue to operate in the same way they have in previous decades and fail to utilize the full potential of the new medium. The theory section of this thesis consists of two chapters, which examine the use of videos in schools and the Flipped Classroom method, which is based on the idea of student-centred learning. Previous studies have shown, that the Flipped Learning method can improve student satisfaction and in some cases test results. Research findings on the qualities of a good instructional video are available. The research method chosen for this paper is one of theory-guided, qualitative content analysis. The theme-centred interview consists of three Finnish upper secondary school teachers, who had several years of experience in the making of instructional videos. Based on analysis of the semi-structured interview, three main categories were formed: videos in education, making of videos and teaching with videos. Case study as a research strategy helped to answer the main questions of why and how videos are used in schools. The study reveals, that teachers produce videos, because they want to teach in their own specific way. The teachers used other online videos only as additional material and they did not receive much collegial support. According to teachers, the Flipped Classroom method, which relies on videos as learning material, improved student and teacher satisfaction at school. It shifted the work from teaching towards guiding. The production of the videos was considered time consuming, but the student feedback was positive. Often students did not watch the videos at home, which was a problem for the teachers. In the future, the teachers want to develop and support students to produce their own videos. This could help them to understand the students' thinking processes and replace some of the written exams. Increasing the use of video at school could help develop students' media literacy, support different learning styles, encourage creativity, improve school satisfaction and narrow the communication gap between students and teachers. The findings can be applied by those who wish to produce their own instructional videos or try the Flipped Classroom method.
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(2017)The purpose of this study is to understand the phenomenon of consumption of groceries as entertainment among adolescents on YouTube. The first data-collection phase was led by answering the question, what kind of phenomenon is grocery consumption as reflected on the adolescents' YouTube videos. In the second data-collection phase, the aim was to find out what kind of symbolic meanings of consumption adolescents emphasize on the YouTube videos. The theoretical background was built on a group of concepts based on Maula's (1995) pattern on formation of the environment of grocery consumption. Data analysis is based on the contrasting symbolic meanings of consumption: utilitarianism vs. hedonism and egoism vs. altruism. The study is a multi-method study in which the data were collected and analyzed in two phases so that the first set of data formed the basis for the second acquisition and analysis of the data. The first phase was netnografic. Web environment was used as field of observation instead of a physical environment. The data consisted of vlog-type YouTube Finnish-spoken videos uploaded by adolescents aged 14–26 years. The data consisted of 50 videos from 32 different YouTubers. Videos were uploaded to YouTube during years 2013–2016. Four videos analyzed were selected to the second phase of the study. In this phase the data were produced as a learning assignment where the researcher was in the teacher's role. The learning assignment was carried out in the lesson of pupils on the 8th grade (24 pupils). After watching each example video, the students produced a mind map about their thoughts and ideas as a group. Seven mind maps were produced for each video. The results of the first phase show that grocery consumption on YouTube videos of adolescents were predominantly hedonistic and egoistic. This suggests that grocery consumption on the YouTube videos follows the real world: people seem basically to be egoistic and consumption in the society is to a large extent hedonistic. In the second phase, the students mainly emphasized the same symbolic meanings in their mind maps as were recorded in the first phase of the study. However, in the first phase, one of the example videos was seen as altruistic, and in the second phase, judged by pupils, as egoistic. This result implies that adolescent see YouTubers' behavior on the videos more egoistic than altruistic. Previous studies show that adolescents define their self-image by media, so it seems natural that in the eyes of adolescents, the behavior of YouTubers is emphasized. The results of this study can be applied in consumer and media education of adolescents.
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