A Literature Review of the YouTube Phenomenon and
the Teaching and Learning Practices
Lucila Dughera
1[0000-0002-3937-585x]
, Esteban Azzara
2[0000-0001-7777-9380]
, Fernando Raúl
Alfredo Bordignon
3[0000-0003-0692-6851]
1
CONICET. Interuniversity Observatory of Society, Technology and Education (OISTE) and
the Team for the Studies on Technology, Capitalism and Society (e-TCS).
2
Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Interuniversity Observatory of Society, Technology and
Education (OISTE)
3
Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. Interuniversity Observatory of Society, Technology and
Education (OISTE)
luciladughera@e-tcs.org, esteban.azzara@gmail.com,
Fernando.bordignon@unipe.edu.ar
Abstract. In the past decade, Internet platforms have undergone a steady and
rapid growth. Within this context, their use by young people becomes
significative. YouTube is not the exception to this phenomenon, furthermore, it
has gained relevance both in quantitative and qualitative terms, that is, in the
number of subscribers and visualizations, as well as in the variety of content
that it offers. Thus, in order to widen the horizon and understand how young
people experience the world, and based on the assumption that platforms are
key spaces for this purpose, this work presents a literature review where the
most relevant contributions regarding YouTube and its relation to the teaching
and learning practices are collected. Finally, based on the vacancies we have
identified, we present some considerations that stem from this analysis and
offer some possible future lines of investigation.
Keywords: Teaching, Learning, YouTube, Online Audiovisual Content.
1 Introduction
Given the massive popularity of the Internet, the production of knowledge and its
modes of circulation and consumption, along with the media in which it is objectified,
are showing evidence of transformation [1]. These modes cause tension, not only in
the process of production, but also in the modern institutions, which have historically
been in charge of (re)producing it. Furthermore, there are many questions and
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