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Liveblog of Richard Edwards’ colloquium at the School of Informatics in Bloomington, entitled, “Citizen-Generated Content: The Rise of Video Mashups in the 2008 Election.” From 2007’s Phil de Vellis’s “Vote Different” to 2008’s Will.i.am’s “Yes We Can,” video mashups—as a form of political discourse—have become extremely popular in this election cycle, and signal the rise of the “YouTube election.”