Big Data: the New Water or the New Oil?

In definitional terms, big data is, as we are repeatedly told, a matter of volume, velocity, variety and sometimes veracity. But perhaps as a result of a fifth v, the vagueness of this definition, those discussing the present and future impact of big data on…

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Aug 4, 2013

For misogyny on Twitter, silence is easy — and not very helpful

The continued existence of misogyny in the twenty first century is morally repugnant, and the debate over abuse on Twitter reminds us that misogyny can take many guises and subsist in many different contexts. Yet today’s…

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Dec 1, 2014

What the Thornberry Affair tells us about politicians online

Published on the the LSE British Politics and Policy blog.

Many commentators have speculated what was going through the mind of Emily Thornberry, the shadow Attorney General, when she tweeted a…

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Aug 13, 2012

Olympic Competition Ends With the Modern Pentathlon, or Sports Day Writ Large

Published on The Huffington Post.

As it turned out, it was very appropriate that the last sporting action of London 2012 should be the Modern Pentathlon. It showed the…

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Dec 11, 2013

Cyber-revisionism: Parties’ Attitudes to Web Archiving Are a Worrying Sign for Digital Democracy

Following an earlier, somewhat rantier post on this blog when the news originally broke, I’ve written a more academically-oriented piece on British political…

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Nov 6, 2012

What to Expect on Election Night

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Nov 22, 2010

Master Statesman or An Idiot Abroad?

Published in Exepose.

DEPENDING on your political perspective, for good or ill the first six months of the coalition government have been defined by economic issues. The Great Recession may have been global in scope, but it has forced…