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.
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 MoreI’m finally getting round to uploading slides from some of my recent talks. With the ongoing controversy about Edward Snowden you might be interested in this piece I wrote with Simon Collister.
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 MoreLast call for nominations for this APSA award, which “is given annually to honor a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.”
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 MoreTo my surprise (I very rarely use Spotify) these playlists have attracted quite a following, with between 600 and 700 subscribers each. Happy listening.
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 MoreWe invite nominations for the American Political Science Association Political Communication Section’s Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award for 2015.
Read MoreA 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.
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 MoreThis is the call for nominations for the ITP Section Best Conference Paper Award. Papers with an ITP theme presented at any conference during 2014 are eligible for this award.
Read MoreJenny Stromer-Galley and I have a new collaborative project underway on digital media, power, and democracy in election campaigns.
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 MoreThe 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 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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