Can UK political bloggers influence the MSM?

I posted a few months back about the completion of a research project for my CIPR Diploma which investigated the ability of political bloggers in the UK to affect the MSM agenda of broadsheet newspapers.

I promised that once I had the final result I’d post up a version to share. Well, I’m pleased to say that the research project was awarded a distinction and so for your enlightenment here’s a pdf version of New media democracy or pain in the RSS? An examination of political bloggers and media agenda setting
in the UK
. [Download simoncollisterdiplomaresearchproject2008.pdf (383.8K)]

I’ll also be presenting an updated version of the paper at Politics & Web 2.0: an international conference in April if anyone’s interested.

Technorati tags: political blogging, research, CIPR

Comments

  1. I am keen to read this Simon but the link to the pdf doesn’t work for me. Good luck at the conference.

  2. Cheers Philip. Link should be working now.

  3. Congratulations Simon, that’s a fantastic result. I didn’t write up the conclusions of my project on MPs and political blogging and two-way communication. I should really as it was so interesting.

  4. Hi Simon,
    congratulations on the distinction – I shall download and read with interest
    cheers
    sw

  5. A excellent read, thank you.

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