Tag Archives: guest blog

Apr 6 2013

Italian Journalism: the Real Loser in the Italian Elections (guest blog)

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Posted in: International, Journalism, Politics

The Italian general elections held in February resulted in parliamentary deadlock, and debates of who were the winners and losers still continue. Partito Democratico (PD), the centre-left coalition led by Pierluigi Bersani, and the Popolo della Libertà (PDL) party of … Continue reading →

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Mar 14 2013

Newsmaking in the Twittersphere – some new international data on how journalism flows through the microblog network (guest blog) #twitter

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Posted in: International, Media, Research

Marco Toledo Bastos is a man with a lot of data on Twitter and how it is used as a stream for accessing news from mainstream journalism brands in a variety of countries. He is a visiting research research fellow at … Continue reading →

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Mar 11 2013

Kenyan elections and the media: complex illusions (guest blog)

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Posted in: International, Journalism

LSE  researcher Nick Benequista is researching networked journalism in East Africa. Here’s his take from Nairobi on the complexities of media coverage of the tightly-contested Kenyan elections. The national elections last week revealed an uneasy relationship between Kenyans and the … Continue reading →

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Jan 28 2013

Why social media is good for medicine and why pharmaceutical companies should engage online

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Posted in: Media

There’s nothing more important than our health, but should we trust the Internet when we seek information on medicines? In advance of a free public Polis seminar on social media and pharmaceuticals this Thursday Katherine Relle describes her new research looking at … Continue reading →

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Jan 25 2013

It was and it was not: Identity and the power of storytelling for Muslims (Guest blog)

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Can a minority community use storytelling to create a new identity for itself instead of having its identity decided by majority culture? Polis Intern Paula Brito reports on a talk by US playwright and author Wajahat Ali and actor Riz … Continue reading →

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Jan 3 2013

Raped! The Indian polity in shambles (guest blog)

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Posted in: Development, Media, Politics

A 23 year old student, varyingly named by the media as the treasure (Amanat), the light (Jyoti) or the fearless (Nirbhaya) – died, after being gang-raped and tortured with an iron rod by 6 drunk men on a moving bus … Continue reading →

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Dec 13 2012

What is the point of studying at the LSE when my friends are being killed at home? (Guest blog)

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Posted in: Development, International, Journalism

This week we were able to give a small but vital Silverstone Scholarship grant to one of our MSc students, Eman Eltigani, a journalist from Sudan. She was thrilled to get the financial support, but bad news from her homeland … Continue reading →

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Dec 3 2012

The Business of Bling: How Hip Hop Makes American Music History (guest blog)

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From the ‘ethnic minstrelsy’ of Tin Pan Alley in the early 20th century, to the bling culture of Hip Hop – American popular music has been both big business and a vital ingredient in the US cultural melting pot. Polis … Continue reading →

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Nov 16 2012

How We All Win In The Digital Wars – Charles Arthur at Polis LSE

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Charles Arthur goes way back in the technology industry. He recalls meeting Bill Gates for the first time in 1985. Microsoft was still a small company then, PCs just having started to come into general use. The idea of a … Continue reading →

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Nov 14 2012

What has art got to do with sport? (guest blog)

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Polis Intern Emma Rees reports on the latest Polis Media Agenda Talk by Ruth Mackenzie, the director of the London2012 Cultural Olympiad – she asked what has art got to do with sport? You can listen to the podcast here. … Continue reading →

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