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Can UK political bloggers influence the MSM?

03/30/2008 by simoncollister 5 Comments

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

Filed Under: blogs/blogging, CIPR, Current Affairs, edemocracy, New media, Newspapers, Politics, PR, Research, Technology, Theory, Web 2.0

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  1. Philip says

    03/30/2008 at 14:53

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

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  2. Simon Collister says

    03/30/2008 at 21:54

    Cheers Philip. Link should be working now.

    Reply
  3. Ellee says

    03/31/2008 at 20:03

    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.

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  4. simon wakeman says

    03/31/2008 at 22:08

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

    Reply
  5. UK Voter says

    08/25/2008 at 11:33

    A excellent read, thank you.

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