280MAPA Podcast – “How does Twitter create a virtual sense of place?”
This section is about my 280MAPA individual podcast/ audio essay.
For my podcast, I decided to look at how Twitter uses digital geography and creates a virtual sense of place, with key focus on a community known as football Twitter.
Here is a video version of my podcast:
Here is an audio only version of my podcast:
TRANSCRIPT:
Here is my transcript for this podcast:
References:
Ash, J., Kitchin, R., & Leszczynski, A. (2018) Digital turn, digital geographies? Progress in Human Geography, 42(1), 25-43.
ESRC (2021) What is Twitter and why should you use it? https://esrc.ukri.org/research/impact-toolkit/social-media/twitter/what-is-twitter/
Haenfler, R. (2014) Subcultures: The Basics. Routledge.
History (2021) This Day in History: Twitter Launches. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/twitter-launches
Jenkins, H. (2006) Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture. New York University Press.
Out Of Context Football [@nocontextfooty] (n.d.) Out Of Context Football (@nocontextfooty). Twitter. https://twitter.com/nocontextfooty
Parmett, H. M. (2017) Space. In L. Ouellette & J. Gray (Eds.) Keywords for Media Studies (pp. 341-344). New York University Press.
Rethink Media (2016) HOW DOES TWITTER DECIDE WHAT IS TRENDING? https://rethinkmedia.org/blog/how-does-twitter-decide-what-trending
Shah, S. (2017) #WengerOut: the evolution of a hashtag. Pulsar. https://www.pulsarplatform.com/blog/2017/wengerout-the-evolution-of-a-hashtag/
The People’s Champ [@TroopzAFC]. (2018, March 1) It was actually worse than Sunday #WengerOut [Twitter Post]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/TroopzAFC/status/969325064087900161
Tomaiuolo, N. G. (2012) UContent: The Information Professional’s Guide to User-Generated Content. Information Today.
Quilter, J. (2019) What you need to know about Football Twitter and #EURO2020. Twitter. https://blog.twitter.com/en_gb/topics/events/2019/what-you-need-to-know-about-football-twitter-and-euro-2020.html
Music:
Fast and Furious – Free Electronic Background music by Kabbalistic Village is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: https://youtu.be/iUrFaBWK2h4