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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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.... Read More
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... Read More
In this article I talk about the different approaches for virtual conferences: Streamed, social, and content delivery virtual styles. Ultimately, I ague that for operational reasons many conference organisers might be best suited to the content delivery approach Read More
When GCHQ made their first tweet in 2016, many came to question for what reasons would one of the worlds most secretive intelligence agencies be on social media? After all,... Read More
Twitter has announced that it is banning paid-for political adverts, just as the UK enters a general election, saying that the reach of political messages “should be earned, not bought”.... Read More
People are easily confused, and here I speak as one who has spent centuries in courtrooms. Apparently, they say, a lie can run around the world before the truth has... Read More
This is a opinion piece about how internet culture and society interacts. It questions who we, as a society, looks at as being worthy of the title of being an ... Read More
What better way to celebrate the NHS hitting the big seven-zero than with a relevant hashtag #NHS70 and a bit of social network analysis(SNA)? For the uninitiated SNA is the... Read More
In my little series on the oddities of the Palace of Westminster, I am covering one of the more contentious complaints raised by both Members of Parliaments and the Lords:... Read More
It’s a reasonably well-known ‘secret’ that Ph.D students rate their university experience poorly. Part of this are complaints regarding the lack of PGR community (Bath SU, 2015; PdOC, 2017). Out... Read More
I love the Palace of Westminster. It’s truly one of them buildings I think everyone in the country should visit at least twice. It’s filled like an over amended bill... Read More
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. It was widely believed that Labour did unexpectedly well in the UK’s 2017 general election because of a... Read More
Walking into Quay House at MediaCityUK, you can understand why many BBC staff are quite happy with the move from London. Luxurious modern offices. Clean white walls. Well kept. Not... Read More
2017 was really terrible, wasn’t it? We all thought that 2016 was bad, then boom, here comes 2017 with a concoction of sexual misconduct scandal, an election that completely fucked... Read More