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May 15 2013
Scouts, Kittens And Integrity: notes towards an ethical & effective strategy for communicating change
Leave a commentThis collection of cliches and half-baked slogans comprises the notes from a talk I gave at the Blue State Digital London offices to a group of charity, think-tank and culture communications officers. It is based mainly on this much longer … Continue reading
Posted by: May 15, 2013
Tagged with: camapigning, campaigns, change, Charities, communications, ethics, Kony2012, NGOs, Research
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
May 16 2012
Jason Russell and Julian Assange: Heralds of the Age of Uncertainty?”
Leave a commentThis article is made up of notes for a talk at the University of Southern California conference to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the joint two-year MSc degree in Global Communications with the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. … Continue reading
Posted by: May 16, 2012
Tagged with: Invisible Children, Jason Russell, Julian Assange, Kony2012, wikileaks
Apr 29 2012
New Media’s Mid-Life Crisis (thoughts from four sessions at the Perugia International Journalism Festival #IFJ12
Leave a commentNew media is entering middle age. We’ve all dropped the ‘new’ bit and instead talk about ‘social’ and ‘semantic’ as Web 3.0 becomes reality. Yet while digital communications are triumphing and networked journalism blossoms in this media mid-life, we are … Continue reading
Posted by: April 29, 2012
Tagged with: events, Freedom of expression, internet, Journalism, Kony2012, Leveson, Murdoch, Perugia, Phonehacking
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.
Posted by: April 20, 2012
Tagged with: campaigns, campaings, coverthenight, Development, humanitarian communications, Kony2012, NGO, public sphere
Apr 18 2012
Kony2012 and the digital challenge to the public sphere (new research paper)
2 CommentsThis is a short early draft extract from a much longer paper I am writing for the International Broadcasting Trust on the future of the ‘public sphere’ in the digital age. In other words, how does our ability to communicate … Continue reading
Posted by: April 18, 2012
Tagged with: Development, humanitarian communications, IBT, internet, Kony2012, papers, politics, public sphere, Research
