Speaking at the King’s CyberParty conference next Friday

Speaking at the King’s CyberParty conference next Friday

Hosted by the new King's Centre for Digital Culture (Director: Dr Paolo Gerbaudo), the conference will examine the significance of the new party formations whose organizational infrastructure and political identity is heavily shaped by their use of digital communication technologies, such as Podemos, the 5 Star Movement, Syriza, and the Pirate Parties in Germany, Sweden, and Iceland.

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Workshop on Digital Media, Power, and Democracy in Election Campaigns, Washington DC, July 1-3

Workshop on Digital Media, Power, and Democracy in Election Campaigns, Washington DC, July 1-3

A quick note to update you on the (invitation-only) workshop that Jennifer Stromer-Galley and I are running in Washington next week on the theme of Digital Media, Power, and Democracy in Election Campaigns. This is part of the preparation for a special issue of the International Journal of Press/Politics, which Jennifer and I will edit.

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Call: Journal of Communication Special Issue on Social Media and the “Arab Spring”

Phil Howard and Malcolm Parks are putting together a special issue of the Journal of Communication on communication technologies and political resistance in the Middle East and North Africa. The email from Malcolm Parks and the full call are below.

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