Our second report contains a package of recommendations that, taken together, would limit the impact of the legislation on legitimate civil society campaigning ahead of elections.
Read MoreAs you may have heard, the British government recently introduced a new bill to regulate lobbying and non-party campaigning during the year leading up to an election, without consulting any organisations and on a very rushed parliamentary timetable.
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 MoreTwo new titles in the OUP Studies in Digital Politics book series, for which I’m series editor, have recently been published: Sarah Oates’ Revolution Stalled: The Political Limits of the Internet in the Post-Soviet Sphere and Phil Howard and Muzammil Hussain's Democracy’s Fourth Wave: Digital Media and the Arab Spring.
Read MoreI will be giving the 2013 Attallah Lecture at Carleton University on March 7, 2013. The Lecture takes place annually in honour of Paul Attallah and is part of Carleton’s Communication Graduate Caucus Annual Conference, whose theme this year is [Re]visions: Protest and Resistance.
Read MoreOrganised by the European Parliament Information Office, held at Europe House, Smith Square, Westminster, and entitled Can Digital Democracy Work? the meeting will consist of MEPs and representatives from the Officer of the Leader of the House of Commons, 38 Degrees, and transnational civil society movement, European Alternatives.
Read MoreA new title in the Oxford University Press book series I edit, Oxford Studies in Digital Politics, has just been published: Digital Cities: The Internet and the Geography of Opportunity, by Karen Mossberger, Caroline J. Tolbert, and William W. Franko.
Read MoreI have a new article out in an excellent edited collection that has been put together by Eva Anduiza, Mike Jensen, and Laia Jorba, and published in Lance Bennett and Robert Entman’s book series with Cambridge University Press.
Read MoreA further new title in the Oxford University Press book series I edit, Oxford Studies in Digital Politics, has just been published: Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama, by Daniel Kreiss.
Read MoreThis year, the prize of NOK 4.5 million (or EUR 570,000/USD 800,000) has been awarded to Manuel Castells for his outstanding work as the leading sociologist of the city and new information and media technologies. The prize is awarded annually for outstanding scholarly work in the fields of the arts and humanities, social sciences, law, and theology. Congratulations to Manuel!
Read MoreThe latest title in the Oxford University Press book series I edit, Oxford Studies in Digital Politics, has just been published: The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy, by David Karpf.
Read MoreLast night, Tom Standage tweeted a link to an interesting piece about the merits or otherwise of the popular photo editing and sharing service, Instagram. I retweeted Tom’s link and followed this up with the point that the main problem with Instagram is that these retro effects look great now, but will you really want to look at these photos in five or ten years time?
Read MoreThe latest title in the book series I edit, Oxford Studies in Digital Politics, has just been published: News on the Internet: Information and Citizenship in the 21st Century, by David Tewksbury and Jason Rittenberg.
Read MoreMy 2009 journal article, “Web 2.0: New Challenges for the Study of E-Democracy in an Era of Informational Exuberance,” which originally appeared in I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society 5 (1), pp. 9-41, has now been reprinted in Stephen Coleman’s and Peter Shane’s excellent new edited volume, Connecting Democracy: Online Consultation and the Flow of Political Communication (MIT Press).
Read MoreI can’t make it up to Manchester for this conference due to a clash with teaching, but Rob Procter and Rachel Gibson are presenting some preliminary findings from a pilot study of mining public opinion on Twitter, on which I’ve collaborated: “An Experiment in Opinion Mining Tweets” by Rob Procter, Manchester eResearch Centre, University of Manchester;
Read MoreThis roundtable, organised as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science and taking place during Parliament Week (Oct 31 – Nov 6) brings together academics, politicians, activists, news producers and journalists to debate how social media are being used to promote protest and political change.
Read MoreJames Stanyer and I have just had a new article published. It’s in the latest volume of the bestselling book about British politics, Developments in British Politics 9, edited by Richard Heffernan, Philip Cowley, and Colin Hay, and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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 MorePhil 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.
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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