hansard + voxpolitics event
I was at the Hansard Society's event on Tuesday night, the 7th, about the Internet and elections. I tohught it was OK, bit of a copy-cat of four years ago, as Colemn pointed out. Same old same old, except it's new media we're talking about. You can read some reports online, Bill Thompson's, Brian Wheeler's (BBC), VoxPolitics.
I was impressed with Phil Nobles' performance, partly because it was the first time I saw him presenting. Between a missionary and a visionary, with a good graps of what's going on with politics and technology. It's the beginning, of the beginning of the beginning, that was his mantra on the night. Revolution and all the rest. I have to admit I was fascinated by the extent of evidence he marshalled in favour of the revolution, on the one hand; of no-nonsense political campaigning, on the other. Campaign revolution then. Beware: the cyber-otpimists are back. Now they have some data.
I knew how good a speaker Stephen Coleman is, no surprise there. He wasn't happy when Phil slapped him on the back dubbing him a 'data man'. Don't be fooled: he is not, he's a political theorist. Event though I liked the data on use of Internet at last American election: importnace of email networks (surpire surprise) and youth doing different things (surprise surprise), and the Internet replacing other media(sorry, am I being repetitive here?). Well, not. I really enjoyed it. I especially liked the last question they asked in the questionnaire: "During the election, I used the Interent for..." and the nice theme analysis which was presented. Of course, the question is leading, and results should be taken with an extra granum salis. Thouhg this is the kind of questions that should get asked more often in relation with Internet and politics, Internet and Society, Internet and your gran'ma.
Today I've used the Internet for...
Well done Stephen.
I liked the seraphic Brian White, MP, dry humour to say the least, and the understated awaress that sic transit gloria mundi. I'd vote for him, if i wasn't involved back home to try to send Berlusconi back to his villas. One thing at a time, time will maybe come when I'll spell 'baked beans', take the oath, wave the flag, sing the song, handkiss the Queen and join 59,000,000 subjects.
Questions were a bit sheepish to my taste, the so-what question wasn't asked in the end, and I was too tired to ask it myself. I was inbetween two days of research interviews, and a bit drained. Can I ask it now, too late? So what? So what for democracy: as Coleman said in the conclusions, does the internet matter for those reading the Sun, muttering under their breath as they read 'Those bloody basterds'. Maybe they'll ask me to spell that instead. In that case: Albion, I'm coming.
I was impressed with Phil Nobles' performance, partly because it was the first time I saw him presenting. Between a missionary and a visionary, with a good graps of what's going on with politics and technology. It's the beginning, of the beginning of the beginning, that was his mantra on the night. Revolution and all the rest. I have to admit I was fascinated by the extent of evidence he marshalled in favour of the revolution, on the one hand; of no-nonsense political campaigning, on the other. Campaign revolution then. Beware: the cyber-otpimists are back. Now they have some data.
I knew how good a speaker Stephen Coleman is, no surprise there. He wasn't happy when Phil slapped him on the back dubbing him a 'data man'. Don't be fooled: he is not, he's a political theorist. Event though I liked the data on use of Internet at last American election: importnace of email networks (surpire surprise) and youth doing different things (surprise surprise), and the Internet replacing other media(sorry, am I being repetitive here?). Well, not. I really enjoyed it. I especially liked the last question they asked in the questionnaire: "During the election, I used the Interent for..." and the nice theme analysis which was presented. Of course, the question is leading, and results should be taken with an extra granum salis. Thouhg this is the kind of questions that should get asked more often in relation with Internet and politics, Internet and Society, Internet and your gran'ma.
Today I've used the Internet for...
Well done Stephen.
I liked the seraphic Brian White, MP, dry humour to say the least, and the understated awaress that sic transit gloria mundi. I'd vote for him, if i wasn't involved back home to try to send Berlusconi back to his villas. One thing at a time, time will maybe come when I'll spell 'baked beans', take the oath, wave the flag, sing the song, handkiss the Queen and join 59,000,000 subjects.
Questions were a bit sheepish to my taste, the so-what question wasn't asked in the end, and I was too tired to ask it myself. I was inbetween two days of research interviews, and a bit drained. Can I ask it now, too late? So what? So what for democracy: as Coleman said in the conclusions, does the internet matter for those reading the Sun, muttering under their breath as they read 'Those bloody basterds'. Maybe they'll ask me to spell that instead. In that case: Albion, I'm coming.
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