Last November I was fortunate enough to have a wide-ranging, deeply engaging conversation with Professor Adrienne Russell about the present crisis of public communication. Adrienne is Mary Laird Wood Professor of Communication at the University of Washington.
Here's what we discussed.
Read MoreI have a new article out, which I've published as a free O3C paper.
Titled ‘The New Crisis of Public Communication: Challenges and Opportunities for Future Research on Digital Media and Politics,’ this 8,000-word essay collects my thoughts from the last two years about where we've been and where we're heading (and ought to be heading) in research on digital media and politics.
If you’ve been to one of my talks over the last couple of years you'll recognize these ideas and how they’ve been important in the foundation of O3C at Loughborough.
Read MoreToday sees the publication of a new survey report examining problematic news sharing on UK social media, which I co-authored with Cristian Vaccari.
Read MoreI recently wrote an article about the UK Government’s new Online Harms White Paper.
Read MoreI wrote a review for International Journal of Press/Politics of Brian Southwell, Emily A. Thorson, and Laura Sheble’s timely new edited collection, Misinformation and Mass Audiences.
Read MoreOver the last nine months I've led the development of a new MA programme in Social Media and Political Communication at Loughborough. We are now accepting applications for the first group of students. The programme begins October 2019.
Read MoreOn November 9 I’ll be a keynote speaker at the UK Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group Annual Conference
Read MoreOn October 11 I’ll be giving the keynote at this year’s International Journal of Press/Politics conference.
Read MoreWe (Cristian Vaccari, Ben O’Loughlin and I) examine the links between the sharing of tabloid news and the propensity to misinform and disinform others on UK social media.
Read MoreWe have some funded PhD studentships here at Loughborough University. This is the first wave of positions and they’re part of a new interdisciplinary centre for doctoral training we’re setting up.
Read MoreMy book series with Oxford University Press will publish five new titles in 2018. Francis L. F. Lee and Joseph M. Chan’s fascinating, empirically-grounded account of the Umbrella Movement: Media and Protest Logics in the Digital Era: The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong.
Read MoreA quick note about postdoctoral fellowships and PhD studentships in communication at my university. If you’re working in areas related to my research and would like to be considered, email me.
Read MoreI’m travelling to Rome this week to give one of the keynotes at the Italian Political Communication Association’s Annual Conference. The conference is being held at LUISS.
Read MoreThis one-hour talk was based on the analysis in the new chapter on the 2016 presidential campaign in the second edition of The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power.
Read MoreNext week I’ll be giving a keynote at the Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference at the University of Tartu, Estonia.
Read MoreI’m thrilled to announce that the second edition of The Hybrid Media System is now available for pre-order, for delivery from August 1 in the United States and Canada. It will publish in the UK and the rest of the world in October.
Read MoreOn Monday Samantha Bradshaw and Phil Howard launch their new Oxford Internet Institute report on political manipulation of social media at Chatham House. I’ll be discussing the report with them. Registration is open to Chatham House members only.
Read MoreThis project was an opportunity to explore a puzzle that I’ve been pondering during many years of watching political coverage in the UK, but especially since the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession:
Read MoreI have a new article (co-authored with Ben O’Loughlin and Cristian Vaccari) out in a few weeks in the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. It’s the second piece in our ongoing dual screening project and it features in a special issue devoted to dual screening, edited by Homero Gil de Zúñiga of the University of Vienna.
Read MoreFinal call for nominations for this award. The deadline is March 1, 2017.
I’m on the committee with Leticia Bode (Georgetown) and Deen Freelon (American University).
Read MorePage banner photo: George Orwell street art by Pure Evil, Southwold Pier
I'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.
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.
All banner photos: © Andrew Chadwick
