An introduction, and some reflections (mostly on football)

#DIATA11: Twitter, Television und Fussball View another webinar from Stephen_Harrington Well, it has taken me quite some time to get my first post together for the MoP blog, so forgive me if this gets a bit wordy. I have a bit of catching up to do. I would recommend to all the readers to have …

Popular Uses of YouTube in Italy and Australia: Part 1

I’m writing this from the University of Urbino, where I am spending a week as an academic visitor, leading up to a one-day mini-conference on research methods on Thursday, which I’ll blog about in a few days’ time. Since I’m here, I thought it might be useful to do a quick comparative study of the …

Last week’s Top 10 #ausvotes YouTube videos

As we head into the last week before the Australian federal election, here’s a quick update to my last post where I collected together the most-tweeted YouTube videos out of the #ausvotes Twapperkeeper archive so far. That post only took us up to Friday 6 August – which is centuries ago in election time. Last …