Tag: voting

‘Digital citizens and democratic engagement’ report: what does it say? Come and discuss it at Moseley Exchange

  • April 16, 2010 at 5:08 pm

  • Earlier this week Simon Whitehouse enlightened us about Ordnance Survey OpenData (which I still haven’t blogged about); on Monday I will share my limited understanding of the Hansard Society’s recent report ‘Digital citizens and democratic engagement‘. It’s not the easiest report to make sense of: I would have liked fewer paragraphs full of percentages and [...]

How do you react to political mud-slinging?

  • March 23, 2010 at 1:49 pm

  • We’re seeing a lot of it lately, in the run-up to a General Election: one party does something bad, the other party jumps on it; then it happens again, but the other way round. But does this bickering do them any good? I for one am put off voting at all, let alone for the [...]

Young people don’t value the political power of social media, but they would vote

  • November 30, 2009 at 3:42 pm

  • According to new research, most young people aged 14-25 would be likely to vote in an election and would be more likely to if they could do so online. However, they don’t see social networking as particularly useful for furthering a cause, favouring instead an email to their Member of Parliament. A recent YouGov poll [...]