Symposium, 20 May 2026 | 13.00 - 17.00 YouTube has long established itself within the current online ecosystem as one of the biggest platforms through which people consume and produce news, culture and entertainment. But it didn’t spawn in a vacuum, surfing a larger wave of platformization but also tapping into older alternative media ecologies, including conspiratorial and extremist ones. This symposium brings together several prominent international media and communication scholars to examine