Tag Archives: Political Communications

Nov 7 2012

Some media-related questions after Obama’s victory

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Some media-related questions after Obama’s victory. (Some of these are stupid, some rhetorical, and the list will grow) Please feel free to suggest more via @CharlieBeckett or in the comments. 1. Why do political journalists still treat campaigns like theatre … Continue reading

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Oct 27 2012

Aristotle Good, Churchill better, Blair best? The art and history of speech-making (guest-blog)

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This report on our latest Media Agenda Talk by Polis intern Matilde Beccatti. A great argument,  great writing and a great occasion: these are the three conditions to become an “at least average” speaker according to Philip Collins. The Times … Continue reading

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Jun 29 2012

Does being networked change journalism? (guest blog)

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I have been preaching the gospel of networked journalism for years. I think that public participation and interaction are now a routine part of all kinds of news media and it’s also become a regular fixture in our teaching about … Continue reading

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Oct 9 2011

Should charities be allowed ‘political’ advertising on TV?

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Is the ban on political broadcast adverts preventing people from doing good? Was Bono’s latest celebrity-filled advertisement, released by his charity, a political act or merely an effort to draw attention to famine in East Africa? Polis intern April Simpson … 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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Jun 4 2011

PERPETUAL ENGAGEMENT: The Potential And Pitfalls Of Using Social Media For Political Campaigning (A new POLIS paper)

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We live in an age where the citizen feels increasingly sceptical about and disconnected from those people who run our lives. Paradoxically, this is also an era when the communicative power of new media technologies mean that the potential for … Continue reading

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May 18 2011

Wael Ghonim: the accidental revolutionary (Google #bigtentuk debate)

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Wael Ghonim (Google exec and Egyptian Internet activist) made an interesting point about his role in Egypt’s revolution at Google’s #bigtentuk conference. It was accidental.

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May 16 2011

Social media and democratic governance: the next decade (Wilton Park paper)

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These are the notes for a presentation I gave as part of the Wilton Park conference on ‘media, social media and democratic governance’. This has been an extraordinary period for news and also for the way that news is created … Continue reading

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Apr 11 2011

The Greatest Media Politician Ever?

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No, not Tony.  Though he could turn any hostile question to his own advantage. No, not Margaret. Though she mastered the soundbite and dominated her (largely male) interrogators. No, not even the emollient, budget-airline-travelling PR man David Cameron. The best … Continue reading

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Apr 5 2011

‘Social Mobility’ is now nonsense

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I wonder if the words ‘social mobility’ should join @johnrentoul ‘s list of banned phrases? I think it has now reached the point George Orwell’s described where ‘political writing becomes bad writing’. Social mobility is now a meaningless phrase, or … Continue reading

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