January 2012
1 post
My Newly-Published Article in "Connecting...
My 2009 journal article, “Web 2.0: New Challenges for the Study of E-Democracy in an Era of Informational Exuberance,” which originally appeared in I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society 5 (1), pp. 9-41, has now been reprinted in Stephen Coleman’s and Peter Shane’s excellent new edited volume, Connecting Democracy: Online Consultation and the Flow of...
November 2011
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Workshop: Digital Methods: Tools for Analysis →
I can’t make it up to Manchester for this conference due to a clash with teaching, but Rob Procter and Rachel Gibson are presenting some preliminary findings from a pilot study of mining public opinion on Twitter, on which I’ve collaborated: “An Experiment in Opinion Mining Tweets” by Rob Procter, Manchester eResearch Centre, University of Manchester; Rachel Gibson,...
October 2011
1 post
November 2: Speaking at Hansard Society/University...
Building an Effective Social Media Campaign: A Roundtable Debate
2.00–6.00 pm, 2 November, The Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, Westminster
Organised by the University of Manchester and the Hansard Society
This roundtable, organised as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science and taking place during Parliament Week (Oct 31 – Nov 6) brings together academics, politicians, activists,...
August 2011
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"The Hybrid Media System"—My Paper for the ECPR...
Update: You can now download my paper here.
Here’s the abstract. And here’s the panel I’m on, ably assembled by Bruce Bimber and Lance Bennett.
I’ll also be a discussant on a further panel in the Internet and Politics section.
This paper combines theory and empirical analysis to explore recent systemic change in the nature of political communication. Drawing on evidence...
July 2011
2 posts
New Article by Yours Truly: "The Changing News...
James Stanyer and I have just had a new article published. It’s in the latest volume of the bestselling book about British politics, Developments in British Politics 9, edited by Richard Heffernan, Philip Cowley, and Colin Hay, and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
The chapter covers new media usage patterns, the changing face of news consumption, the growing pressure on newspapers, Gordon...
Brief Excerpt on WikiLeaks—From My New...
I’m in the middle of writing a new book entitled The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power, to be published by Oxford University Press in New York and Oxford. I’ve just completed the rough first draft of the chapter that provides an extended case study and a particular interpretation of WikiLeaks.
Here are some brief excerpts. They’re a bit drafty and elliptical: I’m...
May 2011
1 post
Call: Journal of Communication Special Issue on...
Phil Howard and Malcolm Parks are putting together a special issue of the Journal of Communication on communication technologies and political resistance in the Middle East and North Africa. The email from Malcolm Parks and the full call are below.
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Email from Malcolm Parks:
Over the past several months events in the Middle East and elsewhere in the developing...
April 2011
1 post
Presenting at the PSA next Tuesday
I’m presenting a paper at the UK Political Studies Association conference in London next week. If you’re at the conference, drop in.
Full details on the PSA site.
March 2011
1 post
Why you should join the APSA Information...
I’ve been a member of the APSA Information Technology and Politics Section for longer than I care to remember. I’ve served on its executive committee and I’ve presented quite a few papers to its APSA panels. But over the last few years the section has become an even more interesting scholarly community than it was when I first joined.
ITP has its own scholarly journal, the...
February 2011
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My new journal article: "Explaining the Failure of...
Andrew Chadwick (2011) “Explaining the Failure of an Online Citizen Engagement Initiative: The Role of Internal Institutional Variables” Journal of Information Technology and Politics 8 (1): 21-40.
Abstract
This article presents an exploratory case study based on fieldwork consisting of in-depth, semistructured interviews and group discussions with administrative, legal, political,...
January 2011
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December 2010
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New Journal Article: Britain's First Live...
Andrew Chadwick (2011) “Britain’s First Live Televised Party Leaders’ Debate: From the News Cycle to the Political Information Cycle” Parliamentary Affairs 64 (1), pp. 24-44.
Abstract
Britain’s first ever live, televised, party leaders’ debate took place on 15 April 2010, during one of the most intriguing and closely fought general election campaigns in...
November 2010
1 post
New article by me: "The Political Information...
I have a new journal article out…
Andrew Chadwick (2011) “The Political Information Cycle in a Hybrid News System: The British Prime Minister and the ‘Bullygate’ Affair” International Journal of Press/Politics 16 (1), pp. 1-27.
Abstract
During a weekend in February 2010, just a few weeks before the most closely fought general election campaign in living memory,...
October 2010
1 post
APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions: 2008... →
August 2010
4 posts
Political Communication in Transition: Mediated...
Here are the details of my paper (co-authored with James Stanyer) to be presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, later this week…
Political Communication in Transition: Mediated Politics in Britain’s New Media Environment
Andrew Chadwick, Royal Holloway, University of London
James Stanyer, Loughborough University
Abstract
Since the...
Inkling - Interactive textbooks for iPad →
Interesting. As always, whether it will sink or swim will depend on the content they can sign up.
(Via Minimal Mac.)
Coalition's first crowdsourcing attempt fails to... →
“Simon Burall, director of Involve, a group advising bodies on consultation, said: ‘You have to give the government some credit for trying to do this, but badly designed consultations like this are worse than no consultations at all.’”
July 2010
3 posts
Sunlight Foundation's Party Time! →
Satirical but serious. The Sunlight Foundation is excellent for exposing mundane aspects of political elites’ behaviour.
New BBC iPhone app launched
About time too, though there are arcane regulatory hurdles to much of what the BBC does in this area.
This is one of the few news apps to have a well thought-through landscape mode.
Who Sent the "Yes We Can" Video Viral? →
June 2010
7 posts
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ChronoSync
ChronoSync “is the complete data management utility that allows you to efficiently synchronize or backup files and folders from one disk location to another. There are hundreds of settings available within each Synchronizer document to customize your synchronizations. You can synchronize or backup files to almost any device. ChronoSync will even automatically mount other computers. Create as...
JITP's special issue on YouTube and the 2008...
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Volume 7 Issue 2 & 3 2010
Kevin Wallsten’s article is free to non-subscribers. Here’s the lineup:
GUEST EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States — Michael Xenos
RESEARCH PAPERS
Congressional Candidates’ Use of YouTube in 2008: Its Frequency and Rationale — Girish J. “Jeff”...
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Caffeine
Caffeine. If you have a laptop and take it to meetings or use it to give conference presentations, this is an invaluable tool. You can keep your default screen saver and sleep settings for conserving battery while mobile, but override them when you don’t want to be interrupted.
“Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your...
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Right Zoom
Right Zoom changes the default behaviour of the green “zoom” button on the Mac so that it always maximizes the current window. It runs in the background and you can set a modifier key to activate it only when you want to.
An invaluable tool for new Windows to Mac switchers.
Part of the mini-series: a miscellany of tools and software for the Mac.
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Name Mangler
Name Mangler: Batch renaming of files and folders with just about every logical possibility covered.
Part of the mini-series: a miscellany of tools and software for the Mac.
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TrashMe
Part two of a mini-series of posts: a miscellany of tools and software for the Mac.
TrashMe: a new, free, intuitive application for simply and easily uninstalling applications, widgets, and preference panes.
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GoMBox
Part one of a mini-series of posts: a weird miscellany of tools and software for the Mac.
The new Safari 5 added support for native extensions yesterday. Apple promise a directory later in the summer, but a few have already emerged.
I’m not too keen on extensions per se. My experience with Firefox was constantly ruined by crashing and out of control CPU and memory usage. Can Apple improve...
May 2010
1 post
No to 55
[Not the usual sort of content for this blog, but British politics is moving through extraordinary times at the moment. This is a response to Philip Cowley’s blog post from earlier today.]
Phil’s post raises many interesting questions and there are all sorts of potential issues that will only be worked out when we see the detail.
I’m in favour of fixed term parliaments (of...
April 2010
43 posts
News Publishers Realizing: Paywalls Won’t Work →
“Readers will not pay to consume general news on the web” say the Daily Mail. Murdoch press looking increasingly isolated.
Participatory Politics and Social Media Workshop,... →
Featuring my recently-graduated PhD student Yenn Lee.
Media, Electoral Insurgency, and Nick Clegg
Many overview studies of British politics—including all of the major textbooks—are weak on integrating the role of media in shaping political outcomes. But following Nick Clegg’s and the Liberal Democrats’ extraordinary surge in the opinion polls over the last few days, on the back of a winning performance in the first live television leaders’ debate on April 15, is this...
RT @TomChatfield: Living an augmented election http://bit.ly/98ca8g #leadersdebate (via @jamescrabtree) <- Excellent piece
In case you missed it yesterday, @simoncollister’s NCPU blog guest post on the Digital Economy Act #DEBill http://bit.ly/c7ekbC
RT @philipjcowley: BFI have just launched an online collection of PEBs, with incisive accompanying text — http://tiny.cc/1uvvz
Facebook page down, ITV website half-down, but Twitter handling the strain #leadersdebate now top of Twitter global trend list
Debate not dull. What it reveals is the real poverty of debate we get from prime minister’s questions in the Commons #leadersdebate
RT @TimMontgomerie: Photographs of Jeremy Hunt and Ashdown briefing journalists in the spin room (before debate ends) http://bit.ly/9CNGRQ
RT @BBCLauraK: http://ow.ly/1yVPa - take a look backstage at the debate in Manchester
RT @newpolcom: NPCU blog: Beyond the election: #DEBill, Twitter and a glimpse of Internet-enabled direct democracy: http://bit.ly/ayZlOd
I really cannot see 20 million people watching the leader TV debates this evening.
It’s the mutual dependency between “old” and “new” media that’s driving this election. One of the big themes of the new book I’m working on
Google UK general election trends page: http://bit.ly/a82GsE
Immigration not highly salient according to these Google data?: http://bit.ly/b5DS8r #ge10 #ukelection
TV debates heavily previewed this evening. Will dominate news into Sunday. Will take up huge chunks of media coverage for rest of campaign.
RT @Kerry4MP: Roy Greenslade gets it wrong - http://bit.ly/991N2S <- Agree. Narrow concept of “online”. See, for eg: http://bit.ly/v4RTc
RT @markpack: I worry that Alastair Stewart’s paragraphs are not long enough http://bit.ly/b80WJd
Just finished being interviewed by a reporter from The Asahi Shimbun (Japan) about the media and the election.
Two junior posts advertised in my Department at Royal Holloway: http://bit.ly/9o1ClJ Please RT
Vince Cable’s recent talk at Royal Holloway’s Centre for European Politics: audio now available: http://bit.ly/bSHReY