2004, Sharon Cumberland, "Private Uses of Cyberspace: Women, Desire, and Fan Culture", in Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics of Transition (eds. David Thorburn, Henry Jenkins, & Brad Seawell), MIT Press (2004), →ISBN, page 266:
In an article that compares fanfic writing to the Northwest Indian gift-giving tradition of the potlatch, fan author Rachel Sabotini describes the basis for "creation of status within the fan community" as the giving of gifts: "The gifts — art, songvids, and fan fiction — all require some level of artistry to master and are thus highly prized".
2006, Kristina Busse & Karen Hellekson, "Introduction: Work in Progress", in Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays (eds. Karen Hellekson & Kristina Busse), McFarland & Company (2006), →ISBN, page 12:
Whereas formerly vidders would create songvids by using their VCRs to splice together scenes, now vids are more sophisticated, with vidders using complex authoring software to manipulate electronic files.
The communities that participate in it generally keep a low profile, in part due to copyright concerns, but mostly because many songvid editors don't want to be widely identified with their creations, which sometimes delve into controversial areas such as slash (gay) fiction.
2009, Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy (ed. Robin Anne Reid), Greenwood Press (2009), →ISBN, pages 313:
The resulting videos, known as vids or songvids, may comment on or otherwise interpret the filmic source material, or tell new stories that feature the characters.
2009, Emily Turner, "Scary Just Got Sexy: Transgression in Supernatural and Its Fanfiction", in In the Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural (ed. Supernatural.tv), BenBella Books (2009), →ISBN, page 156:
This is particularly true of the group of fans who engage with the show by producing fanworks such as fanfiction, fanart, and songvids.
2011, Michael Z. Newman, Indie: An American Film Culture, Columbia University Press (2011), →ISBN, page 154:
These may be parodic, as in the numerous gently mocking Star Wars videos like George Lucas in Love (1999), but I am thinking more of those that traffic in novel combinations of existing images and sounds such as mash-ups and songvids that use commercial media texts as the raw materials of transformative works that are at once deeply imitative and imaginatively creative.
2013, Karen Collins, Playing with Sound: A Theory of Interacting with Sound and Music in Video Games, MIT Press (2013), →ISBN, page 97:
Songvids, as music-based vids became known, are arguably the most popular form of vidding and influenced machinima.
