Web Writing

Something that I learned about content strategy is that knowing your audience is key. The book tubers that I analyzed all understood who they were talking to, what that audience wanted and how they wanted to consume it. Another thing that I learned that I will highlight in the how to guide is that audience loyalty is a real thing, which I was completely surprised by. Newer book tubers who put out content 3-4 times a week and had very good audience interaction could still not compete in some areas with older channels with older followers. It showed that fresh and new doesn’t always mean more traffic and that feels important to bring up.

Having a good revision process can help me moving forward beyond this class is a few ways that I can think of. First, a good revision process will allow me to view my work with a critical eye that can spot points of my writing that need improvement. Presumably, having the revision process will allow this to happen much more quickly as it becomes second nature. Secondly, having a revision process will allow me to go into witting with more confidence because I have a down pat process that works and I know I can rely on. Lastly, a revision process will allow me to be more adaptable in my writing because I have a plan.

I had a few questions about adapting academic work for content creation purposes. One of the questions I have is how do I express the academic ideas and language to suit that of the audience without losing the impact and structure of the academic paper? I guess this would depend mostly on my audience but do you have any tips on how to express academic ideas in content without watering it down? Another question I had regarding the “how to” book we must write on present on canva is whether or not it is possible to blend fun elements in conjunction with serious, or academic, topics?

Because the content creators I am covering are science-fiction/ fantasy book tubers I will try to implement those elements into my HTWG. As someone who loves and respects the genre, I plan to have fun with the designing process and make sure it represents the space and the audience as best as possible. The niche of these specific book tubers makes it easier to target the appropriate audience as only people who love, like or, at least, show interest in sci-fi/ fantasy, meaning i feel comfortable that designing my HTWG in that way will be appreciated and appropriate.

My idea for graphing my data so it’s reported in multiple ways is to try and express different ways in which all the data can relate to one another. By doing this, I believe the graph will show me relationships between the data that I hadn’t considered and add elements to my data collection that further expands the information.

One of the elements that matters in a space such as YouTube is audience engagement. Likes, comments and views all represent audience engagement for every video and are great indicators for multiple avenues of research. Using my particular research question and hypothesis, the data can be used to support my claims very easily on a surface level and still allow me to dig deeper. Another other important element is the frequency in which content creators post content. The regularity in which new content is released, in correlation with the likes, views and comments, can tell hs so much about the content release strategy.

The comments you left were helpful because they let me know that I was on the right track and where I could improve on. I was wondering if all of the subheadings applicable to both quantitative and qualitative method since broth methods focus on complete different sets of data?

Something I learned about wiring a research question that can be answered through social media is that there are so many types data to analyze that’s the questions were sort of limitless. All the data, most of it, is available to you and you can sift through it as you see fit. It gives you many angles in which you can view, skew or support the numbers.

As an avid book reader, mainly fantasy and sci-fi, I was thinking about doing this project based on book tubers. My question is whether it would be more beneficial to do book tubers who create content on a specific genre each, or could they all be fantasy/ sci-fi? Or does this depend on my research question?