Dear Katie, here is a short list of references I came across my self or with the help of friends while trying to build a research design of analyzing YouTube: Lange Patricia G. (2007). Commenting on Comments: Investigating Responses to Antagonism on YouTube, in Society for Applied Anthropology Conference (2007). http://anthropology.usf.edu/cma/Lange-SfAA-Paper-2007.pdf Infoscape Research Lab. (2007). Australia's "Google" Election: Labour and Liberals adopt new Youtube tactics: Executive Report. http://www.infoscapelab.ca/node/339 Lange, Patricia G. (2007). Publicly private and privately public: Social networking on YouTube. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 18. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/lange.html Communicative practice and transgressive global politics: The d'ua of Sheikh Muhammed Al–Mohaisany by Michael Dartnell First Monday, volume 10, number 7 (July 2005), URL: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_7/dartnell/index.html Jody C. Baumgartner. Humor on the Next Frontier: Youth, Online Political Humor, and the JibJab Effect Social Science Computer Review 2007 25: 319-338. Darr, C., & Barko, J. (2004). Under the Radar and Over the Top: Online Political Videos in the 2004 Election. Retrieved 20. 4. 2008 from http://www.ipdi.org/UploadedFiles/web_videos.pdf Walters, Ben. (2007). The Online Stump. Film Quarterly. 61, (1): 60-61. Retrieved 16. 5. 2008 from http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/pdf/10.1525/fq.2007.61.1.60 Deveraux, Zachary P. (2008). Torytube.ca and the Ontario 2007 Election: The Web 2.0 Politics of Embedded Political Video. Paper presented at Politics Web2.0 Conference, London, April 2008 http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/politics-web-20-paper-download/ZD_Torytube_Ontar... Turnsek, Maja & Jankowski Nicholas W. (2008). Social Media and Politics: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations in Designing a Study of Political Engagement Paper presented at Politics Web2.0 Conference, London, April 2008 http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/politics-web-20-paper-download/Turnsek_and_Janko... Lange, Patricia G. (2007). Searching for the 'You' in 'YouTube': An Analysis of Online Response Ability. Paper presented at Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference. http://epic2007.com/Draft-EPIC2007-Proceedings.pdf#page=40 Best wishes with your and your advisers research, Maja Turnšek young researcher and PhD student University of Ljubljana Faculty of Social Sciences