politics

Young people see the media as powerful but don’t trust it: particularly not the tabloids

  • December 1, 2009 at 4:42 pm
  • Categories: politics

  • Recent research reveals that young people in the UK have little faith in journalists, but see them as having the greatest influence on government decisions. And tabloid journalists, it seems, are the worst of a bad bunch.
    The research was undertaken last week by online pollsters YouGov, on behalf of the Citizenship Foundation. Almost 4,000 young [...]

Digital users are volunteers as well as consumers

  • June 26, 2009 at 4:35 pm
  • Categories: Citizenship, Culture, Social media, politics

  • In his Digital Britain Final Report, Lord Carter sets out his plan to keep Britain “at the forefront of the digital revolution”. But a revolution needs revolutionaries, who are driven by passion and not just economic incentive. Has this report overlooked the importance of people as volunteers, and the impact on their social contributions of [...]

Tweets from Digital Britain Report event in Birmingham

  • June 23, 2009 at 1:52 pm
  • Categories: Accessibility, Culture, Social media, birmingham, politics

  • Last week I went to hear Lord Carter discuss his Digital Britain Final Report in Birmingham. I took a laptop and tweeted a little.
    As a crude record of what I wrote, what follows is my Twitter stream for that event. All I’ve done is take the html from Twitter Search and pasted it here without [...]

Should the Daily Mail be penalised for inciting racial hatred? Have your say

  • June 19, 2009 at 1:52 pm
  • Categories: Rant!, politics

  • In the same spirit as our friends at the Daily Mail, this poll has no balanced evidence and a clearly biased agenda.
    Oh, and here’s the disgusting cartoon that accompanies Littlejohn’s inflammatory article about gipsies:

Birmingham Powerless Fifty

  • June 10, 2009 at 1:32 pm
  • Categories: Culture, birmingham, politics

  • Every year the Birmingham Post polls the region for the top fifty most powerful people in Birmingham. So this year I’m doing the opposite (it’s probably been done before, but who cares).
    I’m looking for fifty people in Birmingham who are in the public eye but who seem to wield very little power.
    I’m doing this in [...]

Has your MP signed in favour of putting parliamentary footage online?

  • May 26, 2009 at 6:30 pm
  • Categories: Social media, politics

  • Jo Swinson, Liberal Democrat MP for East Dunbartonshire, is trying to convince Parliament to allow the posting of parliamentary footage to social media services such as YouTube.
    She is asking other Members of Parliament to sign her Early Day Motion in support of putting parliamentary procedures online. At the time of writing 28 have done so.
    If [...]

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