I’m thrilled to announce that the second edition of The Hybrid Media System is now available for pre-order, for delivery from August 1 in the United States and Canada. It will publish in the UK and the rest of the world in October.
Read MoreI’m recently back from the American Political Science Association (APSA) Conference, which was, as usual, an excellent gathering, full of great papers on many aspects of media and politics. This year the highlight for me and my colleagues, Cristian Vaccari and Ben O'Loughlin, was being presented with the Walter Lippmann Award from APSA’s Political Communication Section.
Read MoreThe Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power has been awarded the International Journal of Press/Politics Book Award for 2016. The Award was announced at the business meetings of the Political Communication and Journalism Studies Divisions at the 2016 International Communication Association (ICA) annual conference in Fukuoka, Japan.
Read MoreI’m the keynote speaker at the opening ceremony of Mevi16, the annual meeting of Finland's Association of Media and Communication Studies. The conference will be held Friday 8 and Saturday 9 April, 2016, at the Arcada UAS campus, Helsinki.
Read MoreOur chapter, ‘Politics in the Age of Hybrid Media: Power, Systems, and Media Logics,’ features alongside a rich and diverse range of chapters in the excellent new Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics, edited by Axel Bruns, Gunn Enli, Eli Skogerbo, Anders Olof Larsson, and Christian Christensen.
Read MoreUpdate, June 23: English language videos of the talks at this excellent event, which had an audience of more than 1,000 people, are now online here. My talk was in the session, República Digital. The video doesn’t show some of my slides, so here is the slide deck in full.
Read MoreThe first issue of Social Media and Society, Zizi Papacharissi’s new journal, has just published. It’s a terrific collection of over 50 short Manifesto pieces written by editorial board members.
Read MoreSimon Collister and I have written a new article that examines the mediation of the Snowden leak. It will be out with the International Journal of Communication very soon. We’re presenting this at the APSA Political Communication Section Preconference in Washington, DC next week. Abstract and full PDF below
Read MoreThis is the culmination of a research project stretching back more than four years, though my thinking on hybridity in organisations goes back further—to early 2005. With this new book, however, I have tried to use hybridity as a bigger concept for explaining how the systemic interdependence among older and newer media logics now shapes many different aspects of political life.
Read MoreI’m in the middle of writing a new book entitled The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power, to be published by Oxford University Press in New York and Oxford. I’ve just completed the rough first draft of the chapter that provides an extended case study and a particular interpretation of WikiLeaks.
Read MoreI'm Professor of Political Communication in the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture and the School of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, where I also direct the Online Civic Culture Centre (O3C).
I'm Professor of Political Communication in the Department of Communication and Media at Loughborough University, where I am also director of the Online Civic Culture Centre (O3C).
The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power is published by Oxford University Press and is now in its second edition. It was awarded the Best Book Award of the American Political Science Association Information Technology and Politics Section and the International Journal of Press/Politics Best Book Award.
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