Category Archives: political communication

TheyWorkForYou.com

By Craig | Published: September 13, 2009

On of the best online political engagement sites in the UK is the TheyWorkForYou.com which is a system that monitors your local Member of Parliament’s voting patterns/speeches (in my case Meg Hillier in Hackney South/ Shoreditch).

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Lords of the Blog: Life and Work in the House of Lords

By Craig | Published: September 9, 2009

Lords of the Blog is a collaborative blog written by Members of the House of Lords for the purposes of public engagement. The aim of the blog is to help educate, raise awareness and engage with the public on a range of issues relating to the role and business of the House of Lords. The [...]

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Building Social Media Infrastructure to Engage Publics

By Craig | Published: July 9, 2009

An interesting new report from the Centre for Social Media at American University is Washington DC. This field report traces how a committed group of volunteers harnessed the micro-blogging tool Twitter to create innovative public media 2.0 experiments—first to actively engage users to report on their voting experiences in the 2008 U.S. election, and then [...]

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Photos from Iran elections #iranelections

By Craig | Published: June 16, 2009

A smashed computer monitor in a room in a Tehran University dormitory after it was attacked by militia forces during riots in Tehran (thanks to Payman for the link).

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How to track Iranian protests online #iranelections

By Craig | Published: June 15, 2009

Here is how to find out about the Iranian elections online. Please send me your links. Also, Twitter’s down time has been rescheduled because of the important role that it is playing in the US elections (see link). Hash Tag: #Iranelections (search and post your blogs and tweets with this). Breaking Tweet http://www.breakingtweets.com Andrew Sullivan’s [...]

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Obama’s speech in Cairo

By Craig | Published: June 4, 2009

Online political communication has travelled well since the days when a web site had a manifesto on it and pictures of cops bashing your mates at the last anti-globalisation demo! Watch Obama’s speeck on Whitehouse.gov (link) Discuss it on Facebook (link) Check Obama’s twitter feed (link) Discuss on Myspace (link) I asked him about what [...]

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Private Sheriffs in Cyberspace: Jonathan Zittrain OII Event: London, 19th May 2009

By Craig | Published: May 21, 2009

On Tuesday evening I attended an Oxford Internet Institute sponsored lecture by Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Harvard Law School, Co-Founder and Faculty Director, Berkman Centre for Internet & Society (at the salubrious legal offices of Wragge and Co). Zittrain talked about regulation on-line by major Internet players such as Facebook and Apple and asserted that [...]

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