Broadcasting Religion? Constituting religious counterpublics in GodTube

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Abstract

GodTube, the Christian iteration of popular video site YouTube, has seen significant popularity since its inception in 2007. This essay uses the concept of counterpublics to explain how the format and rhetoric of the site itself in addition to the content of popular videos and commentary about those videos on the site function to constitute and develop Christian identities. These identities are both reified and under contention within these texts.

Author

• Bethany Keeley, University of Georgia