We (Cristian Vaccari, Ben O’Loughlin and I) examine the links between the sharing of tabloid news and the propensity to misinform and disinform others on UK social media.
Read MoreI’m travelling to Rome this week to give one of the keynotes at the Italian Political Communication Association’s Annual Conference. The conference is being held at LUISS.
Read MoreI’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 MoreOn Monday Samantha Bradshaw and Phil Howard launch their new Oxford Internet Institute report on political manipulation of social media at Chatham House. I’ll be discussing the report with them. Registration is open to Chatham House members only.
Read MoreThis project was an opportunity to explore a puzzle that I’ve been pondering during many years of watching political coverage in the UK, but especially since the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession:
Read MoreThe talk will be based on a forthcoming article—the second piece from our dual screening project—in volume 61 of The Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media: Chadwick, A., O'Loughlin, B. and Vaccari, C. ’Why People Dual Screen Political Debates and Why It Matters for Democratic Engagement.’
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 MoreDigital media continue to reshape political activism in unexpected ways. Within a period of a few years, the internet-enabled UK citizens’ movement 38 Degrees has amassed a membership of 3 million and now sits alongside similar entities such as America’s MoveOn, Australia’s GetUp! and the transnational movement Avaaz.
Read MoreOur special issue on Digital Media, Power, and Democracy in Election Campaigns is now available online. Below are links to the Online First editions of the articles. The bound print edition will publish next month.
Read MoreAt the UK PSA Annual Conference on March 23 at Brighton Nick Anstead and Andrew Chadwick will present material from a new research project examining how the authority of think tanks is constructed in social media environments.
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 MoreCristian Vaccari, Ben O’Loughlin and I have a new article out in the Journal of Communication. This is the first piece from an ongoing project on dual screening and hybrid political media events.
Read MoreA chapter I co-authored with Newpolcom researchers Lawrence Ampofo, Simon Collister, and Ben O’Loughlin is now (finally) published.
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 MoreA further two new titles in the OUP Studies in Digital Politics book series, for which I’m series editor, have recently been published: Steven Livingston and Gregor Walter-Drop’s edited volume Bits and Atoms: Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood and Jason Gainous and Kevin Wagner’s Tweeting to Power: The Social Media Revolution in American Politics.
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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