Research reports
Research reports
Project developed during the SICSS-Aachen-Graz (July 2022) investigating the variation of sentiment in news articles tweeted by @BBCBreaking
The research builds on top of two separate research questions, concerning curated politics in algorithmic governance, and appropriation of creative affordances. How do recommendation algorithms shape the political landscape of TikTok? How do TikTok ’s creative affordances affect user engagement of Black Lives Matter protests?
This project investigated the following question: How is the perception of political self-identity affected by the use of Social Networks? The main object of study was the use of Facebook Events by manifestants from the Occupy Estelita movement in Brazil.
Spreading my research - Blogs & Articles
The 2022 Commonwealth Games, which ended on Monday (8 August), marks the 10th anniversary of another international sporting event hosted in the UK: the 2012 Summer Olympics. As Birmingham prepares to return to normal, and hopefully build on the legacy of the Games, what lessons can be learned from the London experience a decade earlier?
In this post, I aim to discuss the different approaches taken by news organisations, government websites and activist blogs to the legacy of the London Olympics.
Recently, exploring the data available in the UK Web Archive related to London’s 2012 Olympic legacy, I found a very curious fact. Boris Johnson - Mayor of London during the games - told the BBC in 2013 that a baby boom in London that year was among the legacies of the event...
This blogpost is a summary of the presentation I delivered with my colleague Daniela Major in the conference Engaging with Web Archives: 'Opportunities, Challenges and Potentialities' in September 2020. This presentation is entitled 'Tracking and analysing...
The Olympic Games happen every four years. This means that every four years a city has to be chosen as a host city. It is easy to think about the impact of hosting such a big...