Oxford Studies in Digital Politics: New Title: Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age
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The latest book in my series is now available: Jennifer Stromer-Galley's Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age. This valuable and unique book is ideal for courses on U.S. politics, political parties, campaigns and elections, and political communication.
Read MoreOxford Studies in Digital Politics: Two New Titles
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A 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 MoreSecond Report of the Commission on Civil Society and Democratic Engagement
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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 MoreReport of the Commission on Civil Society and Democratic Engagement
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As 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 MoreMy new book The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power—now available
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This 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
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Two 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 MoreGiving the 2013 Attallah Lecture at Carleton University, March 7, 2013
/I 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 MoreSpeaking at an event on the European Citizens’ Initiative in Westminster, November 29, 2012
/Organised 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 MoreOxford Studies in Digital Politics Book Series: New Title Now Out: Digital Cities
/A 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 MoreNew Article: “Recent Shifts in the Relationship Between the Internet and Democratic Engagement in Britain and the United States: Granularity, Informational Exuberance, and Political Learning”
/I 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 MoreNew OUP Digital Politics Title: “Taking Our Country Back” by Daniel Kreiss
/A 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 MoreSpeaking at the Holberg Prize Symposium Next Week, June 5
/This 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 MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy, by David Karpf
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The 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 MoreOn Instagram and Temporal Authenticity
/Last 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 MoreNews on the Internet: Information and Citizenship in the 21st Century, by David Tewksbury and Jason Rittenberg
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The 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 Newly-Published Article in “Connecting Democracy”
/My 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 MoreWorkshop: Digital Methods: Tools for Analysis
/I 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 MoreNovember 2: Speaking at Hansard Society/University of Manchester Debate on Social Media and Campaigning
/This 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.
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