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
Debate not dull. What it reveals is the real poverty of debate we get from prime minister’s questions in the Commons #leadersdebate
Facebook page down, ITV website half-down, but Twitter handling the strain #leadersdebate now top of Twitter global trend list
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
I really cannot see 20 million people watching the leader TV debates this evening.
RT @newpolcom: NPCU blog: Beyond the election: #DEBill, Twitter and a glimpse of Internet-enabled direct democracy: http://bit.ly/ayZlOd
TV debates heavily previewed this evening. Will dominate news into Sunday. Will take up huge chunks of media coverage for rest of campaign.
Immigration not highly salient according to these Google data?: http://bit.ly/b5DS8r #ge10 #ukelection
Google UK general election trends page: http://bit.ly/a82GsE
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
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.
Vince Cable’s recent talk at Royal Holloway’s Centre for European Politics: audio now available: http://bit.ly/bSHReY
Two junior posts advertised in my Department at Royal Holloway: http://bit.ly/9o1ClJ Please RT
Watch Labour’s animated manifesto film now and then share it:The Labour Party Manifesto 2010: http://tinyurl.com/y7xjxq2
Partying like it’s 1999 as Labour’s website buckles under the strain of demand for the manifesto
I should add that my saying “partying like it’s 1999” was supposed to be a joke about how many websites used to fall over in the old days
John Harris: http://bit.ly/aJ3G82 <- As-it-happens election reportage doesn’t get much better than this imho.
Why arguing open-source is ‘better tech’/’generative’ is ill-advised http://nyti.ms/aYcb3H (via @berrydm)
RT @markpack: What’s uniform national swing and is it any use as a predictor? http://bit.ly/ahvpFE #GE2010
The Sun also appears to have abandoned its election liveblog or “rolling campaign news” as they called it.
RT @ElectoralCommUK: Support voter registration with a ‘My Vote Counts’ Twibbon http://bit.ly/avCANY
Support My Vote Counts, add a #twibbon to your avatar now! - http://bit.ly/dqcCkC
The Sun’s idea of what counts as “Election Video” seems a bit skewed to me: http://bit.ly/buMzpN
RT @ElectoralCommUK: You can now register to vote through Facebook. Deadline to register is 20 April http://bit.ly/cdC9Sz
New Political Communication Unit blog: Mumsnet, the general election and single-issue/hybrid campaigning models: http://bit.ly/bg8Sbf
To my US followers: apologies but tweets will be focused mostly on fascinating UK election campaign for next few weeks
Always likely to happen to someone: http://bit.ly/aaDi8Q Social media mess with trad notions of public/private; that is the explanation here
Impressed with the luxurious amount of fruit in Nick Clegg’s battle bus ;-)
Some good behind-the-scenes photos from the Labour campaign here from Martin Argles: http://bit.ly/bYYSA0
RT @simoncollister: My analysis of the #DEBill debacle http://bit.ly/dx9D9j
RT @newpolcom: NPCU blog: 2010-09-02: Andrew Chadwick and James Stanyer presenting at the 2010 American Political Science Associa… htt …
Dodgy stream, but sheer range of questions to which Brown responded in #askgb reveals value of these things compared with mainstream media
Watching Labour’s “People’s PMQs.” Me and 271 others. Audio and video quality dreadful: http://bit.ly/c0YK2y Missed opportunity #askgb
Johnston Press paywall scheme melts down
http://bit.ly/aAG9ID
Is advertising-and-eyeballs the only viable model?
Thanks to the Media and Politics Group for a great...
Especially Mick Temple for organising and Alec Charles for chairing.