Politics, Media & Society
I have a terrible secret – one which would send shivers down the spines of any book lover. I write in books. Not just in pencil. In pen. I make...
I was interviewed by BBC Radio Kent’s Anna Cookson about some the the latest political memes about Boris Johnson, and if this means the end for his career. Recorded 24th...
How to do Academic Networking: Online Edition
What ethical responsibilities do social media researchers have to report harmful or illegal content?
This post was originally written for and published on the LSE Impact Blog, March 18, 2021. Click here to read the original article. For researchers working on social media communities,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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
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,...
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”....
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...
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 ...
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...
Ever since it was built, temperature control has been a contentious issue in both Houses of Parliament, but who ultimately controls the heater settings?
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...