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Mar 5 2013
What Good Is Twitter? (for public service journalism?) New Polis Report
Leave a commentHow can journalists working in public service newsrooms use social media to improve the quality of their work? Polis has a new report out by EBU Fellow Nadja Hahn that asks, What Use Is Twitter? This research paper is a … Continue reading
Posted by: March 5, 2013
Tagged with: EBU, Journalism, News, Online, Public Service Broadcasting, Public Service Media, Reports, skills, social media, twitter
Oct 30 2012
New Paper: Connecting To The World, Communicating For Change: Media and agency in the new networked public sphere
1 CommentI have written a report for the International Broadcasting Trust on how the new media environment is impacting on the way we communicate for change. It is particularly aimed at international NGOs. You can access that here. You can find … Continue reading
Posted by: October 30, 2012
Tagged with: BBC, Cosmopolitanism, humanitarian communications, IBT, International, Kony2012, NGOs, public sphere, The Guardian
Oct 11 2012
Connecting to the World: launch of report on online campaigning and the new media environment
Leave a commentThe internet presents huge opportunities but also huge challenges for campaigners dealing with global issues. On November 7th, we’ll be launching a new research report written by me for the International Broadcasting Trust that looks at how UK NGOs campaign … Continue reading
Posted by: October 11, 2012
Tagged with: advocacy, aid, BBC, campaigning, Citizen journalism, Development, Guardian, humanitarian communications, Kony2012, public sphere, Reports, Syria
Apr 20 2012
How did Kony2012 Go Viral and Should We Copy It?
Leave a commentIn this short draft extract from a much longer paper I argue that what made #Kony2012 go viral was not the slick content or the Invisible Children brand – it was its focus on networking as an end in itself. … Continue reading
Posted by: April 20, 2012
Tagged with: campaigns, campaings, coverthenight, Development, humanitarian communications, Kony2012, NGO, public sphere
Jan 19 2012
Is Comment Free? New Polis research report on the moderation of online news
13 CommentsWhy do we moderate websites? If you are Paul Staines who runs the hugely popular Guido Fawkes website then you interfere as little as possible. If you are The Guardian, for example, you have a whole team dedicated to editing comments. As a reader … Continue reading
Posted by: January 19, 2012
Tagged with: Democracy, ethics, Guardian, moderation, Online, Sweden, Trygg
Nov 29 2011
WikiLeaks: News In The Networked Era – the book and the lecture Video and Audio Podcasts
Leave a commentYou can order the book, ‘WikiLeaks: News In The Networked Era’ here (there will be a Kindle version at some point) You can watch a video of the lecture (as well as audio, details of the book etc) by clicking here. You … Continue reading
Posted by: November 29, 2011
Tagged with: charlie beckett, events, wikileaks
Nov 12 2011
WikiLeaks: News In The Networked Era: New book – lecture podcast, interview video, etc
Leave a commentMy latest book is ‘WikiLeaks: News In The Networked Era’ available from Amazon here (there will be a Kindle version at some point). You can watch a video of me talking about the key issues in the book here You can … Continue reading
Posted by: November 12, 2011
Tagged with: events, Lecture, Polis Events, Shirky, wikileaks
Jun 27 2011
Journalism and power: the importance of the institution
4 CommentsThe journalist John Lloyd has written extensively about the relationship between journalism and power. It’s at the heart of a book I am writing, so I asked John to send me a summary of his views that I had heard … Continue reading
Posted by: June 27, 2011
Tagged with: Institution, John Lloyd, Power, Professionalisation, wikileaks
Jun 25 2011
WikiLeaks As Journalism
1 CommentThis is another small clip from an early draft of a book I am writing about the significance of WikiLeaks. To be published by Polity in the autumn: In this early phase we see how WikiLeaks is constantly evolving away … Continue reading
Posted by: June 25, 2011
Tagged with: Book, Networked journalism, Reporting politics, wikileaks
Jun 13 2011
An angry or informed society? (guest blog) #polis11
Leave a commentThis blog by Mariam Cook reflects on the debate about an Informed Society at our Media and Power Journalism Conference. Embracing the angry society needs people. Lots of us. If our political establishments are locked into restrictive, exclusive modes of … Continue reading
Posted by: June 13, 2011
Tagged with: Citizen journalism, Guest bloggers, media literacy, Networked journalism, new media, online news, Polis Events
