Tag Archives: Democracy

Sep 7 2012

The Village Cycle: how political news changes when it speeds up

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Posted in: Journalism, Politics

Danny Boyle might have shown it thus at the Olympic Opening Ceremony in one of his nostalgic tableaux of British history: A delivery boy in hobnail boots wobbles over the village green on a heavy framed bicycle, laden down with … Continue reading →

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Mar 3 2012

The balance of crowds: top-down and bottom-up mobilization strategies in Russian election campaign (guest blog)

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Posted in: International, Media, Politics

Polis Silverstone Scholar Gregory Asmolov reports from Moscow on the anti-Putin protests and discovers how Russians are re-inventing democratic activism. I was seating at “Shokoladnitza” Café, a popular coffee network in Russia, with a cup of latte.  Next table to … Continue reading →

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Mar 1 2012

Russian Elections: the struggle for power between state and network society

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Posted in: International, Politics

New media technologies are having a interesting impact in places where we thought political communications had become bogged down. One of them was Russia As Polis Silverstone Scholar Gregory Asmolov explains, both activists and the Russian state are using digital … Continue reading →

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Jan 19 2012

Is Comment Free? New Polis research report on the moderation of online news

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Posted in: Journalism, Publications, Research

Why 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 →

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Dec 12 2011

Tunisia’s Media Spring?: New Research Project

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Posted in: Development, International, Journalism, Politics

Polis Visiting Research Fellow Fatima el Issawi is just back from her first field investigation in Tunisia, trying to understand how Arab media is coping with the transitional political phase and how Arab journalists are redefining their identity and role. … Continue reading →

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Oct 20 2011

Performing resistance, very real problems and the 99% (Guest blog)

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Posted in: Media, Politics

This is a response to my blog about media and protests by my colleague Dr Bart Cammaerts, who specialises in research around alternative media, political communications and protest. Many of the points Charlie makes resonate with the research I am … Continue reading →

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Oct 7 2011

Media Citizenship – A New Charter For An Informed Society (World Economic Forum)

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Posted in: Development, International, Journalism, Media, Politics

I was chair of the World Economic Forum’s council on Informed Societies last year. We meet again this month with a new chair, Chan YuenYing. We will be discussing how to find ways to put into practice our Charter For … Continue reading →

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Sep 18 2011

Rethinking democracy and development: what role for media and technology? (FPC panel at Lib Dem conference)

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Posted in: Development, International, Media, Politics

These are my speech notes from a Foreign Policy Centre fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrat Conference. Media doesn’t cause revolutions  or generate political will or produce democracy or foster development: all those things happen because of social trends, economic … Continue reading →

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Sep 16 2011

Social media – why it’s useless for democratic politics

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Posted in: International, Journalism, Media

I spend a lot of time writing about the political potential of new forms of journalism. Though I like to think that my analysis of social media and the Arab uprisings of 2011 was cyber-realist rather than utopian. Our report … Continue reading →

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Jun 15 2011

Periodismo, redes y la nueva política interconectada

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For Spanish readers here is the beginning of an article I wrote on the new networked political journalism for Estudios de Politica Exterior. You can download the article here as a pdf Internet y la telefonía móvil han dotado a … Continue reading →

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