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Tag Archives: social media
May 24 2013
Should the media have shown the images of the Woolwich attacker?
Leave a commentTweet Graphic images of the senseless tragedy in Woolwich on Wednesday were displayed prominently by the mainstream media. Charlie Beckett asks whether the media should have done this or if some images are better left unpublished. Should the media have shown the … Continue reading
Posted by: May 24, 2013
Tagged with: media, press, social media, tabloids, Woolwich
Mar 17 2013
Book Review: Life After New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process
Leave a commentTweet In Life after New Media, Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska make a case for a significant shift in our understanding of new media. They argue that we should move beyond our fascination with objects such as smart phones to … Continue reading
Posted by: March 17, 2013
Tagged with: media, mediation, New Media, privacy, social media
Feb 23 2013
Positive unemployment figures but questionable long term prospects? Top 5 blogs you might have missed this week
Leave a commentTweet Duncan Weldon cautions that the positive unemployment figures should not distract us from falling wages and productivity. Tim Roca argues that, even with devolution as it currently understands, the UK is still one of the most centralised countries in … Continue reading
Posted by: February 23, 2013
Tagged with: Campaigning, centralisation, employment, falling wages, productivity, social media, unemployment
Jan 20 2013
Book Review: Social Media as Surveillance: rethinking visibility in a converging world
1 CommentTweet Within a few years social media has become an ordinary part of our everyday lives. So too increasingly have fears about the impact this technology has had on privacy. In Social Media As Surveillance Daniel Trottier presents empirical research with a range of … Continue reading
Posted by: January 20, 2013
Tagged with: privacy, social media, surveillance
Dec 17 2012
Introducing our latest eCollection: Resilience in the Recession
1 CommentTweet Elizabeth Cotton reflects on a series of posts written for this site on wellbeing and the workplace. The six articles have been compiled into an eCollection that can be downloaded in PDF format. One year on from these original six … Continue reading
Posted by: December 17, 2012
Tagged with: mental health, recession, resilience, social media, unemployment
Dec 12 2012
Twitter has been important for emergency management in the UK local government, especially during the 2011 riots
Leave a commentTweet In recent years the social networking site Twitter has played an increasingly prominent role in emergency management. In this post Panos Panagiotopoulos reports on his research into the use of Twitter by local government authorities. He argues that Twitter is enabling new forms … Continue reading
Posted by: December 12, 2012
Tagged with: Hurricane Sandy, Panos Panagiotopoulos, social media, Social Networking, Twitter
Nov 24 2012
The Future of Academic Impact: Breakout Sessions
1 CommentTweet The Future of Academic Impacts, a free, all day conference hosted by the LSE’s Impact of Social Sciences project team, will be held on Tuesday, 4th December at Beveridge Hall, Senate House, London. Alongside our main conference programme, we will be running a … Continue reading
Posted by: November 24, 2012
Tagged with: impacts, podcasting, social media, training
