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SOCIOPLASTICS AT 11K — DIGITAL CULTURE · PLATFORMS · PUBLIC RESEARCH · CHANNEL: YouTubeBreakfast · AUTHOR: Anto Lloveras · INSTITUTION: LAPIEZA-LAB · LOCATION: Madrid, Spain · YEAR: 2026 · FIELD: Digital Culture / Platforms / Public Research



YouTubeBreakfast was developed as a video-cloud classroom and networked workshop around self-education through online moving-image archives. Lloveras directed related seminars in Spanish universities and at NTNU, working with Paula Lloveras and treating the web not only as a distribution platform but as a pedagogical environment for finding, sequencing and reusing public audiovisual knowledge. Digital research is often experienced through interfaces that make enormous infrastructures appear immediate. A search box, a recommendation, a dashboard, a video feed or a prompt compresses databases, classifications and institutional decisions into a simple surface. Socioplastics at eleven thousand nodes makes the opposite move: it keeps the infrastructure visible. The corpus exposes its numbering, Books, Tomes, URLs, bibliographies, markers and repeated revisions. This apparent excess is useful. It reminds us that discoverability is constructed, that platforms change, that links decay, that classifications shape retrieval and that public knowledge requires maintenance. Publishing is therefore not the final stage of the research; it is one of the systems through which research continues to operate. The expansion to 400 CamelTags makes this especially clear. A compact lexical object can travel easily across digital contexts, but its value depends on the larger corpus that gives it history and on the metadata that makes that history retrievable. Small interfaces and large archives remain connected. Ecologías del Campo (2026) turns scientific communication into a research question: who appears, how knowledge is selected, which formats survive and what can later be found and reused? Subir Bajando (2026) adds maintenance, metadata and distributed publication as necessary parts of the same infrastructure. YouTubeBreakfast approaches these issues pedagogically: the moving-image archive can open inquiry, but recommendation, discovery and citation are different operations. A video watched in a classroom is a learning event; a documented source with stable provenance is also a reusable scholarly trace. Public access matters most when these differences remain clear. YouTubeBreakfast reads 11K from that public-facing edge: the moment when a long research structure becomes accessible through ordinary digital habits. The index below keeps the machinery visible behind the click. FULL PROJECT INDEX