Hi! I’m Liam McLoughlin. This is my spot on the internet to place things
Welcome to my website where I share my thinks. A mix between political/communications analysis and my hobbies (photography and projects). Most of which will probably haunt me in the future.
Politics, Media & Society
This post was originally written for and published on the Meme Studies Research Network website, Jan 22, 2021. Once again, Bernie Sanders is asking you to make him into a meme. In the mid of...
This post was originally written for the 2020 Parliament Week for the Political Studies Association. UK Parliament Week is an annual festival that engages people from across the UK with their UK Parliament, explores what...
The social media platform Reddit recently hit the news in taking down over 2,000 communities after a review of its content policy towards hateful content, including one of the largest online Pro-Trump communities /r/The_Donald. But...
I’m pleased to announce a new publication, alongside Rosalynd Southern, titled: ‘By any memes necessary? Small political acts, incidental exposure and memes during the 2017 UK general election’, in The British Journal of Politics and...
Love them or loath them, I think anybody who has been on the internet for longer than 5-minutes can sympathise with MPs speaking out about the abuse MPs receive online. But to what extent is...
Ok Ok, you got me, I made a click-bait title that includes both Bill Gates and a timely reference to Easter. But the content is good if you’re a political nerd, so hold on. One...
