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Tag Archives: Elections
Mar 13 2012
Sex, money and power: reporting America for Al Jazeera (guest blog with audio report)
Leave a commentIt has been said that the two aspects of life most often lied about are sex and money – a stereotype that Zeina Awad co-host of Al Jazeera English’s flagship American current affairs programme, Fault Lines, knows all too well. … Continue reading
Posted by: March 13, 2012
Tagged with: Al Jazeera, Elections, events, feminism, gender, guest blog, Guest bloggers, USA, women, Zeina Awad
Mar 3 2012
The balance of crowds: top-down and bottom-up mobilization strategies in Russian election campaign (guest blog)
4 CommentsPolis 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
Posted by: March 3, 2012
Tagged with: activism, campaigning, Democracy, demonstrations, Elections, Gregory Asmolov, Putin, Russia, Silverstone Scholar
Mar 1 2012
Russian Elections: the struggle for power between state and network society
3 CommentsNew 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
Posted by: March 1, 2012
Tagged with: asamov, cctv, Democracy, Elections, guest blog, Guest bloggers, monitoring, politics, Russia, Silverstone, surveillance, transparency
Nov 20 2010
After the Golden Age: Vienna Part IV
Leave a comment“It’s very hard not to feel that something precious is slipping away – but that’s a feeling I want to resist. The Golden Age was pretty brief and to some extent we haven’t lost it entirely” Michael Schudson is a … Continue reading
Posted by: November 20, 2010
Tagged with: Democracy, Elections, Freedom of expression, governance and journalism, Political Communications, Reporting politics, US politics
Nov 20 2010
Media after democracy – Vienna III
Leave a comment“The market is not a mixer and the Internet accentuates this” Ivan Krastev is an expert on political change in Europe, rather than media, so his views on journalism and democracy give a fresh insight into our debate about media … Continue reading
Posted by: November 20, 2010
Tagged with: Democracy, Elections, Freedom of expression, governance and journalism, Political Communications, Reporting politics
May 19 2010
Notes on Britain's Spring Revolution
Leave a commentThese are some notes on the British election, social media and mainstream journalism that I used for a presentation in Spain. It is an attempt to start understanding what happened in media terms during the campaign and what it tells … Continue reading
Posted by: May 19, 2010
Tagged with: Elections, Political Communications, Reporting politics
May 11 2010
Continental coalition politics can work but the media won't tell you that (guest blog)
1 CommentMy colleague Bart Cammaerts is a leading political communications analysis. He is also a Belgian who used to work at the heart of their rather complex and fraught party politics. His homeland is often cited as a warning against those … Continue reading
Posted by: May 11, 2010
Tagged with: Elections, Reporting politics
May 8 2010
How Do You Report A Hung Parliament?
3 CommentsThe likelihood of a hung parliament raises all sorts of interesting procedural issues for journalists – especially the BBC and other Public Service Broadcasters. How do you report impartially and proportionately and how do you avoid getting bogged down in … Continue reading
Posted by: May 8, 2010
Tagged with: Elections, Reporting politics
May 7 2010
The Media Election: Lessons (so far)
2 CommentsIn media terms, what have we learnt? That opinion polls during an election campaign are an expression of sentiment, not intention That the TV debates shook up the campaign but they were platforms to perform, not parliaments to decide power … Continue reading
Posted by: May 7, 2010
Tagged with: Elections, Reporting politics
May 5 2010
Is This How History Isn't Made?
Leave a commentIs this how history isn’t made? After a magnificent month of surges and surprises could we possibly be in for an anti-climax? Could the historic election campaign actually make little difference to constitutional history? According to the latest polls, the … Continue reading
Posted by: May 5, 2010
Tagged with: Elections, Reporting politics
