The talk will be based on a forthcoming article—the second piece from our dual screening project—in volume 61 of The Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media: Chadwick, A., O'Loughlin, B. and Vaccari, C. ’Why People Dual Screen Political Debates and Why It Matters for Democratic Engagement.’
Read MoreI’m recently back from the American Political Science Association (APSA) Conference, which was, as usual, an excellent gathering, full of great papers on many aspects of media and politics. This year the highlight for me and my colleagues, Cristian Vaccari and Ben O'Loughlin, was being presented with the Walter Lippmann Award from APSA’s Political Communication Section.
Read MoreThe Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power has been awarded the International Journal of Press/Politics Book Award for 2016. The Award was announced at the business meetings of the Political Communication and Journalism Studies Divisions at the 2016 International Communication Association (ICA) annual conference in Fukuoka, Japan.
Read MoreDigital media continue to reshape political activism in unexpected ways. Within a period of a few years, the internet-enabled UK citizens’ movement 38 Degrees has amassed a membership of 3 million and now sits alongside similar entities such as America’s MoveOn, Australia’s GetUp! and the transnational movement Avaaz.
Read MoreOur special issue on Digital Media, Power, and Democracy in Election Campaigns is now available online. Below are links to the Online First editions of the articles. The bound print edition will publish next month.
Read MoreHosted by the new King's Centre for Digital Culture (Director: Dr Paolo Gerbaudo), the conference will examine the significance of the new party formations whose organizational infrastructure and political identity is heavily shaped by their use of digital communication technologies, such as Podemos, the 5 Star Movement, Syriza, and the Pirate Parties in Germany, Sweden, and Iceland.
Read MoreI’m the keynote speaker at the opening ceremony of Mevi16, the annual meeting of Finland's Association of Media and Communication Studies. The conference will be held Friday 8 and Saturday 9 April, 2016, at the Arcada UAS campus, Helsinki.
Read MoreI’m finally getting round to uploading slides from some of my recent talks. With the ongoing controversy about Edward Snowden you might be interested in this piece I wrote with Simon Collister.
Read MoreAt the UK PSA Annual Conference on March 23 at Brighton Nick Anstead and Andrew Chadwick will present material from a new research project examining how the authority of think tanks is constructed in social media environments.
Read MoreLast call for nominations for this APSA award, which “is given annually to honor a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.”
Read MoreOur chapter, ‘Politics in the Age of Hybrid Media: Power, Systems, and Media Logics,’ features alongside a rich and diverse range of chapters in the excellent new Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics, edited by Axel Bruns, Gunn Enli, Eli Skogerbo, Anders Olof Larsson, and Christian Christensen.
Read MoreTo my surprise (I very rarely use Spotify) these playlists have attracted quite a following, with between 600 and 700 subscribers each. Happy listening.
Read MoreCristian Vaccari, Ben O’Loughlin and I have a new article out in the Journal of Communication. This is the first piece from an ongoing project on dual screening and hybrid political media events.
Read MoreA chapter I co-authored with Newpolcom researchers Lawrence Ampofo, Simon Collister, and Ben O’Loughlin is now (finally) published.
Read MoreWe invite nominations for the American Political Science Association Political Communication Section’s Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award for 2015.
Read MoreA quick note to update you on the (invitation-only) workshop that Jennifer Stromer-Galley and I are running in Washington next week on the theme of Digital Media, Power, and Democracy in Election Campaigns. This is part of the preparation for a special issue of the International Journal of Press/Politics, which Jennifer and I will edit.
Read MoreUpdate, June 23: English language videos of the talks at this excellent event, which had an audience of more than 1,000 people, are now online here. My talk was in the session, República Digital. The video doesn’t show some of my slides, so here is the slide deck in full.
Read MoreThe first issue of Social Media and Society, Zizi Papacharissi’s new journal, has just published. It’s a terrific collection of over 50 short Manifesto pieces written by editorial board members.
Read MoreThis is the call for nominations for the ITP Section Best Conference Paper Award. Papers with an ITP theme presented at any conference during 2014 are eligible for this award.
Read MoreI'm Professor of Political Communication in the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture and the School of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, where I also direct the Online Civic Culture Centre (O3C).
I'm Professor of Political Communication in the Department of Communication and Media at Loughborough University, where I am also director of the Online Civic Culture Centre (O3C).
The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power is published by Oxford University Press and is now in its second edition. It was awarded the Best Book Award of the American Political Science Association Information Technology and Politics Section and the International Journal of Press/Politics Best Book Award.
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